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The Cardinals are still hanging around, the Rams pre-season starts-up and the beginning of the EPL!
Along with all the summer garden flowers, the suprise lillies are in full bloom, the asters and mums are getting ready.
...and those catalogs - perfect on a hot summer day's inside.
Corn is moving towards harvest, goldenrod weeks away and doves on the telephone wires.
This is the month I forget about .020" thin barrels and side-clips on lite gameguns.
Altho' still looking for that gun, that will fill-out my fall line-up.
SO!
Not interested in bunk from workbench or gunroom - the many seasons are weeks away.
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August is a good month?
I have just been informed that my Grouse shooting on my regular moor will not happen this year due to the poor weather and a lack of birds.That is bad news for Partridges.
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Can't speak for red grouse, but, ruffed grouse counts are up 40% over last year, and Minnesota continues to suffer a horrific infestation of those Chinese immigrants known locally as ring necked pheasants. They have been running around in my suburban yard, for crying out loud. Woodcock are in decline, so I've avoided shooting any the last several seasons, and will continue to do same. Two out of three 'ain't bad, you know. My English setter, my Tobin 16, and the pair of 12 and 20 gauge Darnes have resigned ourselves to a busy, and productive autumn of insuring only the best survive.
A little rain would be nice, and, I'll be forced to drive on interstate 94 to avoid the recently collapsed 35W bridge in Minneapolis, but, hey, things could be worse-I could be forced into using steel shot statewide (a likely scenario, in the globally warmed future, I figure someone will suggest lead shot is the real culprit any day now) and a lowly pump. These are the good old days.
Let the good times roll.
Best,
Ted
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Salopian: no Glorious 12th, then?  I don't recall much in the way of grouse moors in Shropshire - where do you shoot?
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Jack,
Yes we have grouse moors in Shropshire, The Stiperstones and the Long Mynd + many others.Twenty miles away we have Cannock Chase where the record bag of Blackgame was shot.Shropshire the Hidden County, where Men are Men and Sheep are frightened.
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An honest man-careful where you set your lamp down over there...
Best,
Ted
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We are in the end of days due to lead shot!
Timing is everything, durning the pre-ban days the duck numbers, and duck hunters were at low ebb...perfect timing to pass a bill on those poor old farm boys.
Hard steel in old rusty guns do not mix!
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Salopian 'Hidden County' sounds allot like Missouri.
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h0meless0ne, "Hidden Country," is good!
You can do as you please - when you please and how you please.
No rules, just right ol'boy!
Say, how's those replacement tubes swingin'?
Last edited by Lowell Glenthorne; 08/05/07 10:44 AM.
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Feels like the real thing....you should try some on your cowboy'd Beesley.
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