I guess that's as close to an answer as I'm going to get on this thread.
Thanks, CZ.
Stan;
I think in regard to your thoughts on grouse numbers today versus what they were on Nickerson's shooting estate and the shooting estates of his friends/colleagues in the past, it is likely a function of estate management as much as the cycles of grouse populations up and down for the entire country. Although I do not know that. Both you and I, with me here in South Carolina and you in Georgia, have lived in the days with large populations of wild Bob White quail and now good populations of them are only in properties where quail habitat is managed to support quail. So we can understand the need to manage for good grouse populations. It is been a long time since I read Nickerson's book and I do not remember what he said about proper estate management for grouse.
For those of us who subscribe to COVEY RISE magazine, the entire issue just shipped is about Scotland and shooting there with several well written articles by Simon Reinhold and one article about a shooting estate.
I have a question about Nickerson: Who owns his matched pair of Purdey/Woodward 28 bore O/U's now??
Kind Regards;
Stephen Howell
