I recall that piece from the late Mr. Ford as being separate from his: "Letter To A Grandson", and the "Road To Tinkhamtown"-- Quite a gentleman, sportsman and writer- member of the famed "Algonquin Club" and at one time, engaged to Dorothy Parker, but remained a bachelor all his life.
Looks like his M21 with beavertail forearm in that photo--men like Corey, Burton L. Spiller, "Tap" Tapply and William Harden Foster, Ray P. Holland, George Bird Evans, Nash Buckingham, Archibald Rutledge and many others of that long-ago era that held the ruffed grouse and their dogs they used used to hunt them with--almost as something sacred, and we most likely will never know their ilk again.
"Dogs and beaters, often unseen, lurk behind some leafy screen- calm and steady always be, never shoot where you can't see". I wonder if Mr. Coggins ever called or wrote to Corey Ford, in an effort to apologize for murdering Corey's Setter?? RWTF
