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Cold WX up north is pushing birds into some of our usual habitat. It's been scratch and claw for a few birds until the last week. Today I went to a spot in the lowcountry that I found last spring during gobbler season. Hunt was over too quickly. The dog with the "what did I do?" look is the young French Brittany, Snap. She's named after Floyd's late great Brittany Snap. Snap will be 2 late spring and is coming along just fine. Willa (11.5) is her cell mate and Abby (14) is outside the jail looking things over. Iside 28 ga. Gil

Well done, my friend. Glad things took a turn for the better. Maybe it will last awhile.

Thanks to a very kind invitation by Historic Bore to Olde Hampshire the Edwinson Green gun had an opportunity to show that it could still bring down ducks with 32 grams of Bismuth No.4Bi.

Thanks also to the lady with the Black Labrador (hidden in the reeds) who so efficiently picked up our bag.

Great boxlock. Love the engraving work on the detonation.

Best,
Ted

Tudor Roses for the original owner, Tudor Crawshay.



The gun was a special order in 1894, and this is a copy of the entry in the Order book but sadly it says nothing about the engraving and the identity of the engraver remains a mystery.

Are the overhanging intercepting sears in place, or, removed? Love the church windows and all the documentation.

Very classy gun, nice to see it being hunted.

Best,
Ted

Had a successful woodie hunt this morning, all by myself. Trusty old 30" BSS, .018" choke in each barrel, BOSS #5 Cu plated bismuth. Not as nice an old double as yours, Parabola, but deadly effective on woodies and clays.

No ducks left in this part of the world, Stan. About -10 right now, wind chill is close to -30. The high temp tomorrow is going to be about -5, and the wind will still be 5-10 out of the northwest, with gusts to 20.

Baby, it’s cold outside.

Good to see you are still hitting the slew.

Best,
Ted

Ted,

I don’t know if the overhanging intercepting sears are still present.

I will take the stock off and have a look,

Parabola

Not to rub it in, or anything, but the low yesterday morning when I was shooting those woodies was 42 degrees (+42, that is) and drizzling rain. I was pass shooting them as they flew up a creek to get to their "day place", and easily a hundred came over me.There's no way to pick out drakes before shooting in low light like that. The only thing I can do is look for the biggest woodie in the drove. Often that is a drake. I was lucky yesterday in that I picked right three times.