In the spirit of the holidays, I would like to wish everyone here a warm and peaceful holiday season from my home to yours.
Karl

Beautiful setting Karl!!

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas to you as well!

Merry Christmas
Mike

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Bobby

Jingle bells, shotgun shells, rabbits all the way...
Merry Christmas to all. Gil

Now pan over to the tree where that Merkel 1620 is nicely wrapped and waiting for Monday morning...

Merry Christmas to all!

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Owen,
Done!
Karl

Karl, a very Merry Christmas to you as well.

And to all my friends on this site....Merry Christmas. May Santa bring you what you both need and want!

I need and want a particular bar in wood 16 gauge hammer gun but I don't think Santa knows where it is. I guess I'll just have to help the jolly old fella out!

Owen,
Acually I believe the Merkel 1620 is out because Santa knows that I've been eyeing a prewar Churchill 12 bore. I hope he knows that I've been very good this year.
I hope that everyone's wishes come true this Christmas!
Karl

Merry Christmas everyone.
All the best.

Karl, Your excellent behavior has started you down a dangerous path. English guns are addictive and expensive!! Bravo on the Churchill and we look forward to many game-and-gun photos displays featuring the same.

Owen,
I've never owned an English gun and thought that I should have one to join the flock. Remember, I said "one"!
I reflect at this time of year to be thankful to have what I really need, in spite of wanting more. Warmth, peace and health to everyone at this time of year.
Karl

Merry Christmas and a Happy New year to one and all! ....

Rich

Merry Christmas to everyone!

Pennsylvania Fall Gobbler in the smoker as we speak...

A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all.

Merry Xmas to you Karl. I’m excited to hear more about the Churchill! Sidelock or box lock? Are you getting one of the XXV guns? As mentioned above, English guns may be addictive? I am very fond of the ones I own. This season, I have been hunting grouse and quail with an older Holland 16 bore I bought from Kirby Hoyt not too long ago. The gun has only border engraving, some case color and dove tailed 28” barrels, but nevertheless is marked as a ‘Royal’. It’s an old gun before the Royals were assisted openers. The gun weighs 5 lb 13 oz and is a pleasure to carry all day long. With this in mind, and after reading many of your posts, I hope you take the plunge and treat yourself to an English double. I’m guessing you will be very happy with a Churchill, which are very fine guns.

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I like the shell boxes Mr. Erickson. Looks like a collection including 12ga, 16ga 20ga, and .410 or 28ga. Nice...Geo

They look nice. Reproductions are available in sporting goods departments of some Walmarts. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Frohe Wiehnachten! Joyeaux Noel from Louisiana. Here the te fil and the te gascon wait for Papa Noel to come riding down the bayou in his sleigh, pulled by 8 halamagators.

Me, I hope you all pass a very, merry Christmas.

James

Merry Christmas to all from Dover-Foxcroft, Maine!

Behold, the Word made flesh

Alive yet fragile in the crèche.

Not a worldly potentate

With diadem upon noble pate;

No outward display of might and power

Yes, a poor girl’s Infant laid in the bower;

A Conception so fundamental and profound

The fulfillment of the law with doctrine sound.

No grandiose formulation difficult to be understood

Just love, compassion, sister- and brotherhood.

The meek and humble take courage for His sake

Secretly, the arrogant and overbearing tremble and quake.

It’s a new game now and we would certainly be remiss

If we did not celebrate the New Covenant with a merry Christmas.



J. K. B. von Falkenhorst



Yuletide 2017

Amen

One of your best John!

Though this message may not reach many who I would desire to hear it, that being the families of those who will celebrate CHRISTmas without their fallen loved ones, I nonetheless remember the fallen ................... the soldiers, the law enforcement veterans, the firemen, and all those who have given their all for others. Merry CHRISTmas to you, and know that your/our fallen are not forgotten.

""Rest easy, sleep well my brothers.
Know the line has held, your job is done.
Rest easy, sleep well.
Others have taken up where you fell, the line has held.
Peace, peace, and farewell..."

SRH

All the best from the frozen prairies of Saskatchewan. Bright sun,minus 23C and a keen wind blowing - glad I am cozy inside, and sending greetings to the Double gun enthusiasts.

A very Blessed and Merry Christmas from my family to yours!

God Bless you all!

And.................our dogs



Greg

Thanks for those lines, Stan. Most poignant.

Merry Christmas to all my friends here. Noel!
JR

Merry Christmas to all of you as well!

I'll be cracking a bottle of my own, Vintage, Single Stem, Maple Syrup, distilled on my own arch, for breakfast tomorrow. Slowly distilled, lovingly filtered, and allowed to mellow in the quiet darkness of our pantry.

So rich, the sugar crystals have precipitated, and have grown quite large in the bottle.

Pancakes or waffles on Christmas day, CZ?

How about french toast made with thick homemade bread?
Karl

Belgian Waffles w/butter. Lemon ricotta pancakes (dusted with powdered sugar) as well.
French press Kopi Luwak to wash them down.

Breakfast here is gonna be restricted to coffee for Queen and I.......... Green Mountain Dark Magic, hot, black, with nothing added. We've got so much food to be served for dinner (that's at 12 noon around he'ah) that we don't need no breakfast. Nor supper, for that matter.

SRH

Oh yea!! French toast made from homemade bread, that's the ticket.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone here.
Stan, a special thanks for your moving words to our "Fallen".
Mike

Greg,

Next time you get ready to take a picture of your dog wait until it gets excited.

Steve

Christmas afternoon Ringneck shoot with my number 3 son on a local pond. More like a dove shoot than a duck hunt; we found a bunch, maybe 100 in a hard to get to corner and flushed them.

They came back all afternoon in 5s and 10s. Passing shots only, no decoys. Those little Blackjacks can scat.

I used a Miroku 12 I haven't shot before with Kent bismuth 5s. The combination shot better than I usually do. Son and I got six of them. MERRY CHRISTMAS!...Geo

http://www.thelouisianaweekend.com/cajun-night-christmas/

For ya'll's enjoyment, The Cajun Night before Christmas.

James,
That's a good one, thanks for sharing!
Karl

George,

Sound slike y'all did the blackjacks alright. I have also had great success watching the pond to see if they leave just before dark to roost somewhere else, which they usually do. Then, be there before daylight the next morning and catch them coming back. A Mojo and a few blocks will pull every bunch of them right by you.

SRH

Merry Christmas to all! Hope everyone had a great one. It's also my birthday on the 25th so no......I never age because no one remembers my birthday

Spent Christmas in Las Vegas with the family! Had a wonderful time!

#VegasStrong!