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Tomorrow.

Any word from the moors of late, ol' chap?
JR

Is there any significance to this day unless one has plans to be shooting grouse in the UK? Is there anything of import to a non-Anglophile? Not dissing ..............just curious.

I wonder if even one gunner in England or Scotland knows what the significance of the first Saturday of September is for a Georgian. Kinda doubt it.

SRH

It is the best grouse hatch in a decade.

Coronavirus is killing the shoot hotels, the outfitters, and every countryman that depends on shooting to make their living.

Things are tough all over.

SRH

a different time...a different place...a different life...

time travel would be a wonderful thing?

...and Liberal Democrats are probably blaming our great pro-gun President Donald Trump for that too.

The world as it was is a never ending fascination. There are a couple of series of books which can bring that era - the 19th century - in gun terms back even if briefly:

-- George MacDonald Frasier wrote the greatest series of bawdy history of the era of 19th century British imperialism in his "Flashman" books... But his book "Mr. American" is one of the best fiction recapitulation of the class system in UK at the time:
https://www.amazon.com/American-Flashman-Papers-George-MacDonald/dp/0006470181

-- It was/is a world so totally different from ours, destroyed by WWI and WWII that it is difficult to imagine or reconstruct. But to understand the guns, one has to understand the society and America and Europe in the 19th Century were just not the same.

-- The other series of books to recommend are the notes of Patrick Leigh-Femor...a linguistic genius (who couldn't count), who walked across old Europe before the apocalypse of WWII ,which with Nazis' and Communists destroyed what was left of old Europe.

To understand the guns, one has to understand the society. And the clientele of European guns and American guns from that time-frame is in itself a study in the difference in the social structure of the two continents.

Keith - seriously, you need help.

Stan, I understand the glorious first for certain. I look forwards to that day like almost no other. We have had a excellent year weather wise but I fear our hatch will be lower than expected. It seems many of the Dove we sent south for the winter never returned. Would you know anything about that issue?

Feed plots are running late. Sunflowers are a bit late. Been mowing strips of wheat to start building up the bird numbers. By now I would be ready to mow a bit of sunflowers but this year that will be two more weeks at the earliest. Corn will be very late this year so birds should stay concentrated better than most years.