doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com A question of balance - land, dog and gun

To me not knowing what lies over the next hill makes for exciting hunting...hunting the same piece of property over and over lessens the excitement to me.

Don't kid yourself a Sterlingworth will never be a Boss.

Can someone tell me how to pull the plug on Lord Rowbert'O...(Make Lord Rowbert'Os post invisible to me)

I looked on here and can't find it.

LG,
I'm with you on the land. It's a crucial part of the puzzle, especially for us city mice.

As to the dog, paraphrasing de Tocqueville, we all get the dog we deserve...but unlike humans there's darn few hunting dogs I don't like. The gun is the tool, the inanimate part of the triad, and we add romance/life to the steel and wood according to taste.

BTW, is there a Brush Hogging and Discing for Dummies book? I'm getting the food plots for pheasant stuff ready for next spring!

Hunting with a dog is the highest form of hunting.

I brush hog for the sake of brush hogging and not much more - it's a land thing, like dog and gun with me.
j0e, your right about a Sterlingworth not being a Boss, but they are both icons of our choosing.
After all these years, I've taken a step back to the lessors and find a better fit.

You got that right, Lowell. Let's not kid ourselves. The double adorning this site is just a gun, not necessarily better than the ones we own. The so-called go-to guns are usually those that fit, and that has nothing to do with name or embellishment. It matters not the pedigree of dog, gun and man as long as there is enjoyment of stewardship of the land.

My idea of perfect balance is having my sons with me in the dove field, where we are headed when one of them finishes his book report to the satisfaction of his mother. The gun does not matter. It's only a thing.

"I always feel that it is a pity for a shooting man to be too keen on guns--it seems to be subordinating a major to a minor interest. There is so much more in shooting than the mere weapons of the chase. In many ways it takes a man back, body and spirit, to the places where he belongs, and gives him back so many of the things of which modern commercial civilization has deprived him. Air, freedom and exercise; wild nature; the good companionship of dogs and men; and the eternally thrilling pursuit of a wild quarry destined for wholesome food, are surely its main sources of delight." --G. T. Garwood, introduction to Shotguns and Cartridges

Now where did I put that unturned single action Colt? Indeed.

jack

Young or old....man has always strived to perfect his tools of the hunt be it his dog or his gun.

Actually, if I had a thousand acres I would have dog. But I don't see a dog being practical on much less land.

All the space you need for a dog is in your heart. Maybe a truck seat you don't care about. Of course there was the bath and the currying and the nail clipping and the ear stuff this morning but we've got that down to a drill. OK, you do need a fenced yard full of holes and a park or a big ball diamond and a swimming hole and . . . If the dog has to be trained to actually do something of value that's a different problem.

jack (Lab lover who has always had hounds)