Outdoorsman Thread

[TripleF]

Gooooooood night

[carrmillus]

This one came in at a whopping , 310 lbs. !!! --- about 40 miles up the road from my house** -- ___ don't see many this big**

...I smell a barbecue comin' on!!!....... ..........

[Old Hunter]

Very pleasant day yesterday, quail hunting along the Pee Dee River in Anson County. Weather was overcast, stayed about 50, with a light breeze - good walking weather. OH

[TripleF]

Knice Bruce!!

Any luck?

[AREMINGTONSEDGE]

I swear OH, you appear to be getin' younger in each picture I see of you. I guess all that huntin' and walkin' is like the fountain of youth for a feller. How many quail did ya bag?

[Old Hunter]

I was hunting with another fellow, we found most of the birds (49), lost a couple that neither we nor the dogs could find. I have 22 cleaned birds in my cooler ready to cook or freeze (my Dad wants me to take him and Mom a few before I freeze them). This was my partner - first hunt of any type in his life - taught him to shoot a shotgun and how to hunt birds yesterday - he's hooked now! OH

[AREMINGTONSEDGE]

WOW!

[garddogg56]

Thats the way to get them young men into the wild GOOD JOB

[Mumbleypeg]

Bruce, nice lookin side-by-side you got there. What is it?

Ken

[Old Hunter]

Dogg, I've been a WRC Mentor (informal program of the NC Wildlife Resources Commission) for ten or twelve years and have been doing it on my own for far longer. I enjoy introducing folks to the joy of hunting AND I have picked up several very good hunting partners by doing that over the years. I have learned it is very rare for someone to become an avid hunter without a mentor - just too much to learn on your own. As boy's most of us were lucky to have our Dad's and Uncles teach us - but it doesn't happen in families without hunters.

Ken, that is a Winchester Model 21, 12 gauge. It is a very early model (circa 1934) "boat paddle" butt stock and splinter fore-end, with extractors and double triggers (in fact I forgot to move my trigger finger a couple of times while in fast covey rise shooting on Thursday!) It was a serendipitous purchase; I bought it from an old gent at a tile distributor's warehouse at least 20 years ago and had Stew Wright in the mid-west rebuild and refinish it at least 15 years ago. Great old shotgun, choked CYL & CYL - you have to be quick. I do shoot it well (but it beats the hell out of my right index finger!) OH

[Mumbleypeg]

Thanks Bruce, for mentoring new hunters. That is a beautiful shotgun! Really like the old SxS shotguns. My personal favorite is a J.P. Sauer & Sohn SxS in 20 ga. that I use for dove. Unfortunately fire ants and raccoons have all but eliminated quail in Texas (my theory anyway) but we have great dove hunting.

Ken

[TripleF]

Much, much respect for you Bruce!! Way to get that fella started!!

Nice harvests too!

[TripleF]

It's amazing to me, and I do cherish the time spent, that my grands will come and split wood for 3 straight hours, like a working man would.

I'm just amazed.....that they love it. and are darn good at it. Probably doesn't hurt that I give them major props when they bust a piece clean in half with one swing.

You can see the pile of kindling pieces they were accumulating.....not for us, but for the campers at the local Park!!

[garddogg56]

GOOD job Scott

[Colonel26]

Most excellent OH! And that old Winchester, WOW! Cyl and cyl sounds just about perfect for a quail gun. And I live double triggers!

I've recently come into a 1948 Stevens 311 .410 that except for one scratch in the blurring would be mint. It ain't in the league of a Winchester 21, but I can't wait for this arm to heal so I can take it on a rabbit hunt. It's right opposite from your Winchester. It's choked full and fuller! Lol.

[treefarmer]

Scott! Ain't you afraid they'll get you on some child labor law violation? That little feller looks plumb tuckered out ! You know I'm just messin' with you, Scott!
Children today hardly have any opportunities to get out side and learn to actually work with their hands. Your doing the right thing with your grandsons !
Treefarmer

[treefarmer]

Bruce, just went back a page and did a 2nd take on your shotgun, that's a fine one just like Bro. Wade said ! As close as I ever got to a Model 21 was a Model 24 . It was a great shotgun but I traded it for a Winchester 1895 carbine in 30 Gov't (30-40) caliber .

Some where back in my stash, I do have a Parker GHE 16 ga. It's not been abused but has been used, it still has the original Parker rubber butt pad, which is supposed to be a big deal. I was told years ago to not store it with its' weight on the pad as in a normal gun cabinet as it will cause the pad to deteriorate. There is just something about an ol' double barrel that calls my name .

Wade, speakin' of Stevens 311s, I killed my 1st deer with one back in November of 1966. It's no where near the "looker" as Bruce's 21 but it is functional. My 311 was a gift for my 16th birthday. Dad had promised me a gun when I turned 16. By the time I turned 16, I already had a bunch of guns that I had traded for and he was tryin' to get out of the deal . So we ended up tradin' one of my guns in on the 311 and he paid the difference. Good memories!
Treefarmer

[Old Hunter]

Scott, you are a fantastic Grandpa - teaching those boys what being a man and a citizen is all about - and they don't even know it - they are just out having fun with Pop! I sure wish that we had some grandchildren to pass on what we have learned and what we have - but I don't think that will ever happen.

Wade and Phil, doubles of all sorts are just great old guns, glad I lucked into the M21 like I did. Need to see some pictures of ya'll's guns. I love the old 311 based shotguns too, need to see your 410 Wade - they are very desirable now-a-days. I never owned a Parker Phil, but have wanted to - do you ever hunt it anymore? Speaking of the Winchester M1895 in 30 US ARMY (30/40 Krag) - saw one in a pawn shop yesterday -they are getting scarce and expensive!

I had a 12 gauge, Savage 311 growing up, however it was the cheaper version known as the Stevens Springfield - it didn't even have the wood-burnt checkering - just smooth walnut. That was a hand me down family shotgun and had originally belonged to my Uncle Jesse, when he died in 1959 it went to my Dad who passed it to me around 1970 when he got his first new shotgun. That Stevens Springfield is at my Dad's house now, he bought it back from my brother, who I had sold it to when I was on active duty and bought a new Winchester Super X Model 1.

Funny, but I have it's 20 gauge sister now, it came from my cousin several years ago when he turned 80 - he quit hunting and shooting. This one had been in the packhouse on the farm for 40+ years and looked it. I restored it and put it away because it came out of my Granddad's hardware store in the late 1940's. Here is a picture of the 20 gauge Stevens (need to take a better picture). OH

[TripleF]

My good friend Bruce.....thanks for the respect.
I am very sorry grandchildren may not be in your future......because you should be a grandpa......and it appears to me as though you are acting as one already, no?

I've seen you take new hunters out for the first time in your posts in this thread.

That my friend is the outdoor spirit YOU AND I share with others, whether blood related or not!

[treefarmer]

Okay Old Hunter, drug the Parker out of the hole. 1st time she's seen the light of day, so to speak, in several years. I apologize for the pictures as it seems to be hard to find a contrasting background to show details .

This is a Parker Bros. GHE 16 gauge. "G" is the grade, "H" indicates hammerless and "E" tells us it has ejectors as opposed to extractors. If my memory is correct this shotgun was manufactured in 1937. As you can probably see, it's a long way from excellent condition, but it's all original down to the NOSHOC recoil pad. The pad has a patent date, June 6, 1922. The front bead appears to be ivory, the center bead is missing. There is also an un-engraved silver shield between the toe and grip of the stock. I see no markings that indicate how the barrels are bored. There is a some pitting on the barrels at the breech and near the muzzle . But hey, it's still a Parker!

The last time I hunted with this gun, we shot doves over a dug peanut field probably around 1980.

There was an interesting path to me acquiring this gun, it took a couple of years. A friend down in Orange County had the gun and told me he would trade it for a Remington 600 in .243. He said he was in no hurry so I started my quest. A guy that worked on our maintenance crew was looking for a tent, I found a nice tent for $25. So I traded the tent to him for a S&W 38spl. Don't remember any thing about the revolver. Later on down the path I found an old gun trader that had a Remington 600 in .243. Back then everybody had to either have an 742 auto loader, a 760 pump or a lever gun. It just wasn't cool to be shootin' a bolt action. The gun was nice enough, the old man was having trouble moving it, so he traded it to me for the S&W. Then on our next trip from the Panhandle down to central Florida, I became the proud owner of the 16 ga. That was probably back in 1975 or so.
Treefarmer

[Old Hunter]

My good friend Bruce.....thanks for the respect.
I am very sorry grandchildren may not be in your future......because you should be a grandpa......and it appears to me as though you are acting as one already, no?

I've seen you take new hunters out for the first time in your posts in this thread.

That my friend is the outdoor spirit YOU AND I share with others, whether blood related or not!

Thanks for your kind words!

[Old Hunter]

Phil, wow buddy, what a nice, graded Parker you own! Parker's have always been the "Holy Grail" of shotguns and it's a 16!! That's a cool, convoluted story on acquiring it - got one or two stories like that myself (not quite as good), so I appreciate how you came to own it. I love a 16 gauge myself - a local gunshop had a M21 16 ga for several years (priced at $8K!) I never even tried to acquire it - don't know what he actually took for it. Like Colt snake guns, nice grade American doubles have gone into the stratosphere on prices. OH

[TripleF]

Had this small head hafted to this handle by a friend of mine and gave it to my grandson for his 8th birthday yesterday.

[Old Hunter]

There's that axe - nice rehandling job by your buddy and a nice gift for your grandson. He should really enjoy that axe for years, especially with all the chopping instruction you have given him. I remember an old farmers joke, went something like this; 'best axe I've ever had, two heads and five handles, it's still going strong!' OH

[big monk]

There was an interesting path to me acquiring this gun, it took a couple of years. A friend down in Orange County had the gun and told me he would trade it for a Remington 600 in .243. He said he was in no hurry so I started my quest. A guy that worked on our maintenance crew was looking for a tent, I found a nice tent for $25. So I traded the tent to him for a S&W 38spl. Don't remember any thing about the revolver. Later on down the path I found an old gun trader that had a Remington 600 in .243. Back then everybody had to either have an 742 auto loader, a 760 pump or a lever gun. It just wasn't cool to be shootin' a bolt action. The gun was nice enough, the old man was having trouble moving it, so he traded it to me for the S&W. Then on our next trip from the Panhandle down to central Florida, I became the proud owner of the 16 ga. That was probably back in 1975 or so.
Treefarmer

AQWESOME, Phil !!!!!!! _______ I like the gun, but ""love the story"" !!!!! ______ you once asked about me killing deer this year,with four different rifles ?? well, each one had a different caliper & unique story to go along with em' !!! ________I enjoy the tradin' & swappin' guns as much as hunting !!!! ( already have a few more to "break in"" next season )______have a great day, my friend !!!!_______________Monk**