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Hey all, back by popular demand. Like years past:
Let's see those wonderful pictures and stories for this season as you have in the past.
Please keep on topic and of course civil and please no personal attacks or comments.
Wishing each of you a very successful and above all a safe season.
Stay well my friends
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Shooting a sunflower field tomorrow afternoon, and hoping for lots of doves. If so, pics will follow.
Thanks, Greg, for all the years of enjoying these threads.
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Greg,
I've been looking forward to it! Planning a few trips to provide photos. Wishing everyone here a great season with many to come. Not knowing my expiration date, I live mine as though it's my last!
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Well, the doves this afternoon stayed away in droves. Got a few shots however and ended the hot afternoon with five down. Dickinson .410 ![[Linked Image from jpgbox.com]](https://www.jpgbox.com/jpg/75166_800x600.jpg) But, there was a real bonus to the afternoon. While wading through standing corn looking for a dove I had shot down I found this! 2 3/16" X 3/4" ![[Linked Image from jpgbox.com]](https://www.jpgbox.com/jpg/75167_600x400.jpg)
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Stan
That is a real nice field find. I would probably shoot more birds if I actually looked up more but I cant help it. I love finding artifacts
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Me too, Travis. I've collected them since I was a Boy Scout. i've accumulated a pretty large collection for them all to be surface finds. I've got a friend and I know another guy here who have automated sifters and dig on their creek bank properties and have amassed absolutely huge collections. One of them recently made a sale of his to a restaurant in NC and the sale price was in the six digit figures.
I'm waiting for another artifact collecting friend to confirm what type this point is. It's one of the nicest I've found in the last twenty years. One other cool find I made was while crouching in the weeds by a newly built pond, hunting ducks. I looked down and saw a petrified sand dollar, about 2 1/2" diameter. Solid rock, but with the little five point "star" clearly visible.
Sorry if I got this got too much off topic. I'll keep it on game bagged from now on.
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Stan,
Is the point shaped from bone or flint?
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Stan, beautiful chert point. I missed a great shoot at sunrise due to a funeral of a friend. Gil
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Stan,
Is the point shaped from bone or flint?
Parabola It is actually a rock type common to my area called chert. Most call it flint but it's not really flint. The point is probably from the Woodland Period of native American habitation here.
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Stan: My then rural Pennsylvania family have always treasured finding these little artifacts from the past. My paternal grandfather would walk specific farm fields after a good rain, something he did well into his 80s. He had also found some pre-revolutionary English coins (pennies) in that area over the years and he always theorized that some significant conflicts had occurred there in the now-distant past. I believe "knapping" is the term for the forming of flint and chert into arrowheads and spear points? It is done with antlers if I remember correctly. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](http://i.imgur.com/pxu6S7Ch.jpg) From my scouting trip yesterday. The mismatched body panel colors make it really fit in up here.
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Greener 12 gauge, Ruffed Grouse… ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/RFB3wSN7/IMG-0398.jpg)
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Another ruffed grouse this afternoon… ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/zGrbLpQj/IMG-0472.jpg)
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Hey all, this last weekend was our Grouse and Hun opener. Got rained out both days Went out today around noon. Very humid and hot. Addie did very well, but was getting overheated, so we called it early Did manage to get a double, so happy with that Used my 16b John Wilkes Stay well my friends ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/bwxpD9jc/20250915-143509.jpg)
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great shot...
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A couple more ruffs this afternoon… ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/y8kdG5BX/IMG-0525.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/VsWd0nDM/IMG-0526.jpg)
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That Greener is a beautiful shotgun. You are a lucky man to harvest those wonderful birds with it.
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https://imgur.com/a/W20Bqqh Not bird season yet. But went to the woods with ol' reliable and brought home supper. Can't cook as good as mom did when I was 17, but still pretty good. 
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Have a search for Grimes Graves flint knapping museum, over here in Norfolk, England.
It is a fascinating place. You can buy selections of new flint ready for your musket or pistol all in different sizes.
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Congratulations Dukxdog! I’ve heard the MacNab is very hard to pull off. A once in a lifetime experience from what I understand. Very happy for you.
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Isn't there usually a women involved?
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Never heard of women being involved in a McNab, but it seems to me that would be a pretty good quarry to add to the party...Geo Newbern
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That's a "Grand MacNab", George.
Having attempted a MacNab several times, I tip my hat to Dukxdog for his accomplishment.
I'd love to see the fish/ hear the story.
With Scotland's year round deer eradication program, it won't be long and a MacNab will be nigh impossible.
Out there doing it best I can.
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I had a nice afternoon and took 12 doves with the FAIR Verona 28 gauge. Sorry, no pictures today.
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To complete the McNab Challenge successfully do you have to take the salmon, stag and brace of grouse between dawn and dusk on the same day or can it be within a 24 hour day, such as 12 noon one day to 12 noon the next?
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My friend, Don Hardin, in his 83rd year has a double on Huns in Saskatchewan. Don is now gone, but I'm hoping my grandson, Jack, the shortest one in the second picture, is now old enough and will try to take Don's place. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/bITzBUp.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/EqeBlvC.jpg)
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Lloyd,
Isn’t that to do with qualifying as a Sourdough?
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Hey all, went out today after Mass, just had a couple hours before it got hot. Didn't see many at all. In fact just got up one small group. Managed to get two. Also jumped some huns, got two, but lost one, damn! Addie did very well, very happy with her! Used my 12ga AyA SL XXV Stay well my friends Greg ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/JnZP85b7/20250921-125220.jpg)
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That's a "Grand MacNab", George.
Having attempted a MacNab several times, I tip my hat to Dukxdog for his accomplishment.
I'd love to see the fish/ hear the story.
With Scotland's year round deer eradication program, it won't be long and a MacNab will be nigh impossible. The MacNab is daylight to dark on the same day. The fish were not anxious to play. Four of us tried but I was the only guy to get a take. They have had a hard fish season. Only 38 salmon caught this year as opposed to 140+ last year! Minimal rain was the big factor. We drove to Dunkeld to visit JP Daeschler at John Dickson & Son. I have a Dickson Round action made in 1880 I used regularly for pheasants. Haggis was EXELLENT! Also Cullen Skink! We had a super visit to Scotland. Highly recommended. My friends are all planning to return for another try at the MacNab ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/qBFLYN9f/IMG-6142.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/KYWrbm0v/IMG-9108.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/y8VTXQJB/IMG-9686.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/vByjyH1w/IMG-9685.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/cC6YDyyS/IMG-9597.jpg) Haggis, Tatties & Nips with Whiskey gravy
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There is an article about a MacNab adventure in the 2025 August edition of The Field magazine, titled 'When a Macnab becomes a Macnot"
pgs. 64-69.
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I met J P Daeschler at a Game Fair a few years ago, He was very pleasant and helpful although all I was going to buy was one of his excellent stock finishing kits.
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Good first hunt of the season. Not a big bag, but a good time with old friends. Pleasant weather which was nice for a change. The birds left when the good weather came in, so you can't have it all. I used a 20 gauge Trojan I bought off this site years ago. Still a favorite. ![[Linked Image from tntfiles.com]](http://tntfiles.com/thumb/86c69c2477069e68af42f45a9341381fcc8e7b500250b8d9bdc1668a965444b6.jpg) ![[Linked Image from tntfiles.com]](http://tntfiles.com/thumb/151fb51ae6febe87c19a7030a66bc472015b5a2950a93b5a885d9633c1945850.jpg)
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Not many birds on a recent trip to Wyoming, I did get a couple and if there is more beautiful country than the Tetons during peak foliage, I sure have not been there. My new to me Setter Trudy along with my first Sage Grouse. I adopted Trudy (a Berg Brothers Setter) this past Spring, we seem to be getting along just fine. I have high hopes for her and it sure looks promising. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/dsvVP1ul.jpg) First Ruff too. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/AGVdpHal.jpg) We might not have shot many birds on this trip but my hunting partner and I had a ton of fun and will likely be back. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/vzutetbl.jpg)
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Hey all, just a few pictures from our hunt yesterday and today. It's been slow, but we are seeing birds. Great to be out with my son!!! Addie has been doing very well! Stay well my friends Greg https://postimg.cc/gallery/7brktHv
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Just a "friendly" reminder to all the dear out there: ![[Linked Image from jpgbox.com]](https://www.jpgbox.com/jpg/75263_600x400.jpg) Karl
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Hey all, Will and I went out and hit a couple spots. Very slow.....almost downright poor hunting. Last place we hit got up two and I managed to get a double. So, not all was lost! Addie did well as always. Used my 16ga Ugartechea 1030 Stay well my friends Greg url=https://postimages.org/] ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/nLZ6tFHG/20251001-121126.jpg) [/url]
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Hey all, my son, daughter, and grandson and I went out for a morning hunt prior to it getting hot this afternoon. We did well, I managed to limit (first time this year), and my son managed two. Addie did very well.....good retrieves and good points. Didn't run into any groups, just singles. Stay well my friends Greg url=https://postimages.org/] ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/Wpg8BgCt/20251003-103751.jpg) [/url] ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/66nckng8/IMG-5116-1.jpg) [img]https://i.postimg.cc/[url=https://postimages.org/] ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/QxN7f7r4/IMG-5122-1.jpg)
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