8th Annual Upper Canada Double Gun Classic

[canvasback]

7 months of physiotherapy and I keep up a daily routine. Still need a brace some days but I can do stairs like a human again

We can have a walker on hand if you want.

 

[Cow Town Bill]

It's a Hollis built on I believe a Westley Richard's patent,30 inch ejector 12 gauge just shy of 7lb,I completely restored it over the summer just in time for the fall Barrens...worst part of the job was fixing a previous attempt at a checkering recut,took a bit of patience

Tell us a bit about bird hunting on the "Barrens"---are the birds grouse or perhaps ptarmigan?

 

[cjdawe]

Ptarmigan ,long walk for little reward these days ...I cut my teeth on it ,the thought of what it once was is hard to let go

 

[the spank]

Ptarmigan ,long walk for little reward these days ...I cut my teeth on it ,the thought of what it once was is hard to let go

What caused the decline? Natural cycle low years? Habitat? Predators? All of the above?

 

[cjdawe]

Gross mismanagement ,over hunting ...the warmer fall and winters can't help an artic bird either

 

[brybenn]

We can have a walker on hand if you want.

Thanks. I really feel the love

 

[Cow Town Bill]

Gross mismanagement ,over hunting ...the warmer fall and winters can't help an artic bird either

That's a shame.
Grouse have a habit of going thru wild changes in population for no obvious reasons---one season they are plentiful and the next year there are next to none.
Maybe that's the case with ptarmigan in Nfld.

 

[Londonshooter]

Back to the event, chatty Kathie's.
Breeks and long socks. Who's in??

 

[canvasback]

Back to the event, chatty Kathie's.
Breeks and long socks. Who's in??

Cut off jeans and Adidas sports socks?

 

[Londonshooter]

Cut off jeans and Adidas sports socks?

Equally ridiculous. Much less panache.

 

[Stephen Nash]

In keeping with the pin-fires, I should show up in a top hat and shooting coat.

 

[canvasback]

Equally ridiculous. Much less panache.

The seventies weren’t known for panache.

 

[cjdawe]

Myself and USA have committed

 

[Rick B]

Kilts !!

 

[brybenn]

Back to the event, chatty Kathie's.
Breeks and long socks. Who's in??

I mentioned a tweed sporting coat to the wife and she laughed at me for a week.
Id be scared to meet her reaction to breeks.

 

[Londonshooter]

Puttees might be a way to bring her around to the idea. Otherwise embrace your eccentricity and tell your wife to get used to it.

 

[Londonshooter]

Yeah, kidding. I don't see myself in breeks either.

 

[brybenn]

Puttees might be a way to bring her around to the idea. Otherwise embrace your eccentricity and tell your wife to get used to it.

Knee brace and all the tape kinda wore that look out already

 

[canvasback]

Yeah, kidding. I don't see myself in breeks either.

I was laughing pretty hard. No offence was even thought to be taken.

 

[dilly]

Im bringing my Thieme and Schlegelmilch...I was thinking bundhosen. Now I am reconsidering...