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Today was a special day for me. My son growing up didn't get to shoot or hunt. My EX wouldn't allow it. We fished together when he visited but shooting and hunting was in the cards then. This year he decided to take up shooting a handguns. So I've taken him and the his kids to the range a number of times. For his Christmas I handed down my old Beretta BL3 20 guage which I've hand longer than he has been alive by a year or two. Today we loaded up the dogs, went hunting and he shot his first pheasant. He really enjoyed watching the dogs work (who doesn't). He says he is looking forward to next years grouse season. I guess now after almost 40 years I'll have a son to hunt with.  oh and the new-to-me Belgain Giuld gun is a good fit. 
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Dec. 30, 2013. Chuck Heald, Sky (unhappily wearing the boots of bondage and torture), Jasmine (what a sweetheart) & Dirk (mortified to be on the same tailgate with a POINTER FGS  ), near Canelo, AZ. Bill Henry very kindly came early and made some scratch marks and spread Mearns' feathers around to keep the dog's enthusiasm up. As soon as I left, he released the quail he had stashed in remote control boxes for Chuck and Sky  
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Good picture Drew. That Sky has motor on her, don't she!
Chuck using red duct to hold on Lewis boots is patented by me. You may be committing a tortious patent violation. Please cease and desist or my lawyer could be contacting you. My Brittanys would have that little bit of tape off the first boot before I got the second boot taped on. I have to go all the way down to the heel.
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1959 Model 12 16 gauge resting on a pair of Model 1948 dove hunter's legs on a cold, gray morning in Georgia today. Model 2011 Brittany between Model 1948 legs. Both Model 2011 Brittany and 1959 Model 12 in better condition than dove hunter sitting on a dove stool. 
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What a great day! 5 hrs, 7 coveys, 14 birds in the bag. And oh yeah... They were all wild!!!! Gotta love south Georgia in the winter! I used my Grulla 209H in 20ga  My 75 year old guest thought he'd gone back in time to the "good ole days"!!!  Adam
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So Greg, how long is the bird season in North Dakota, 6 months?
Here in Massachusetts it's 6 weeks. 6 WEEKS! Could you live with that? And that includes half of October where the foliage is beautiful but still on the trees, hiding every bird that flushes in about .87 seconds.
6 WEEKS!!!!!!!! And it doesn't even matter if you've got 59 beautiful doubles like you, you'd still only have 6 weeks to try to cram in maybe 10 of 'em.
6 WEEKS!!!!!!!!
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So Greg, how long is the bird season in North Dakota, 6 months?
Here in Massachusetts it's 6 weeks. 6 WEEKS! Could you live with that? And that includes half of October where the foliage is beautiful but still on the trees, hiding every bird that flushes in about .87 seconds.
6 WEEKS!!!!!!!! And it doesn't even matter if you've got 59 beautiful doubles like you, you'd still only have 6 weeks to try to cram in maybe 10 of 'em.
6 WEEKS!!!!!!!! I'll answer for my buddy Greg. From mid September till the first weekend in January. This year most of the month of December was sub zero weather with a wind howling up our asses. How would you like to unzip and take a mid hunt pee when it's so cold you have to back away from the frozen stream? Could you live with that?
Practice safe eating. Always use a condiment.
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KK, I used to live just north of where JRB and Greg live. He's not exaggerating about backing up when you pee.
The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
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The end of deer season drudgery of picking up feeders and cleaning out stands was highlighted by a visit to the pond for some duck and wild rice ingredients.....course, Bella had to be the principal agent in this. "Last time I saw a chance like you, I shot about there...."  
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Unusual that a rabbit dog will retrieve a duck.
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