If memory serves, the late Havilah Babcock loved quail hunting in the Low Country fields and brushy woods- I have his books in my library, of all his works, my 3 favorites are : "Tennesse", "Slim Boggins Mistake" and "Fallen Lady"-- RWTF
I grew up in the Lowcountry and started hunting in the fall of 1977. I shot real wild quail over my uncle's uncle's Brittany spaniel. I didn't realize then but am keenly aware now how "storied" my growing up was. I hunted quail and ducks in the same areas where Havilah Babcock and Archibald Rutledge roamed. At the time I was unaware of them or the history, I simply lived the life in front of me. I was given a boat when I was 12 and ran the upper Cooper River. I was forced to read Huck Finn but couldn't understand the fascination - it was what I did just about every evening when I got home.
Kid don't get to grow up like that any more.
