found this on the net...

very cool...

https://www.google.com/search?q=Hun...u7dXSueb8AhWrjYkEHbjfCLgQv-YBKAV6BAgREAs

Can you watch the actual programs Ed?

I watched a couple on You Tube CJ but the two I saw were terribly out of focus. Others may be better. There were quite a few episodes on You Tube.

Most everything associate with "Bosephus"Hank Jr. tended to be out of focus-wonder why.By chance, do you know who gave Hank Jr, that nickname, and it wasn't his Daddy-?? RWTF

I can't really find anywhere the videos are available. Most of these really old shows are literally taped off a TV broadcast, hence the fuzz. Amazon has official DVD's listed but are out of stock and have no idea as to availability. I did see that the made some Podcasts of the originals, but they are a mixture of discussion and film clips I believe.

According to Wikipedia, he was named Randall Hank Williams when born. It states that the nickname Bocephus did come from his father before he died and gave the source. Like a lot of famous people he likely just adopted the Jr for publicity.

We had a local congressman that was in office for around 40 years. His son was appointed to the seat and ran with the old congressman's name, even though he had never used it. Surveys revealed that something like 30-40% of the electorate were not even aware the elder congressman had died and thought that they were still voting for the old man. The new guy didn't last long. He went to prison for a couple of years because he helped institute the House Banking Scandal of the time. THe name subsequently disappeared from politics.

You may well me correct. I had thought it came from Waylon Jennings- either way, it does have a nice ring to it- like a well played Martin HD-28 in std. E tuning!!RWTF

Ah, Gents, somewhere we lost direction to this discussion. We were talking about hunting with Hank, the bird dog of Dez Young and the TV show made from their hunts for upland birds!!

Anyway, the name Bocephus was in fact given to Hank Jr. by Hank Sr. and it came from the name of a vetriloquist dummy of a Grand Ole Opry comedian, Rod Brasfield.

Did he tune to open E or standard orchestra tuning" eadgbe"

????

Depends on the song. Sometimes drop D, sometimes C6, but mostly standard.

Drop D is often used for Blues based songs- Robert Johnson used it a great deal, ditto Elmore James- great slide guitar man, along with Duane Allman.. If you are tuned to EADBGE and you play all 6 strings in sequence, you have a 2 octave span and a E flat natural.. Just as I have way more than one Model 12, I have several acoustic 6 string guitars--Martin, Guild, Taylor and Gibson-- but my "workhorse" for Bluegrass is a vintage Martin HD-35, with fishman pickup. Kinda like a pre-1950 Model 12- 12 gauge 28" mod. solid rib--IMO anyway. RWTF

Looking for something else this morning I came across this picture of Dez (with Dash not Hank).
Anyone know or recognize what he's shooting?

Merkel?

Looks like a Merkel 147E to me.

Yep, Merkel 147E with SST

Too bad this got off track ,I've been trying for quite some time to get my hands on the DVD collection, have some but not all

Do I remember correctly that Dez favored the 20b?

He shot a 20 Merkel. Not sure who the importer was (GSI Perhaps) and they provided him the gun as I recall to use during the show.

It was a good show.
Dez was a great ambassador for the upland life.
He represented our sport well.

“In the uplands of North America you can always breath free….”

We still sing his song around the house.

He is still around btw. Posts on facebook fairly often. Mostly about the old show.

For some reason I can no longer remember, I ended up talking on the phone with Dez while he was producing the Hunting with Hank series. No doubt it had something to do with dogs as Hank was a Llewellin from the King kennels and my first Llewellin had ties to King’s dogs as well. I do recall he was a gentleman and a pleasure to speak with. Odd to read Tut’s “those old shows” comment as in someways it seems like just yesterday. Nice memories of that time of life.