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Drew Hause MD
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Posted: Sun Aug 10th, 2008 03:07 am |
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Enjoy  http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/20286828
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Pat Dugan
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Posted: Sun Aug 10th, 2008 03:37 am |
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I want you people to notice the baby woodcock the mother is holding while she is flying. I did not know that this was done.
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Posted: Sun Aug 10th, 2008 04:08 am |
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| Carrying a woodcock chick to safety or to a more productive feeding ground by the adult is an often-read or heard part of woodcock lore though rarely if ever witnessed. Has anyone ever seen this? I sure haven't and don't know anyone who has. Dean
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Posted: Sun Aug 10th, 2008 04:13 am |
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Thanks Drew, for that link.
I love woodcock passionately and everything they bring to mind.
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Destry Hoffard
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Posted: Sun Aug 10th, 2008 04:25 am |
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The woodcock carrying their young in flight is something that's been talked about since Audubon's day but never really been proven as far as I know.
Some folks claim to have seen it but there's never been any photographic evidence that they really do it.
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Terry Lubzinski
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Posted: Sun Aug 10th, 2008 05:40 am |
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Drew, got a big surprise when I opened your post as I am currently looking at the same Thorburn print hanging on my office/gunroom wall after purchasing at a local antique shop a number of years ago. I think it is the only example of a European woodcock in the album? I have taken a few of them on various trips to the UK but have not had the priviledge of hunting the North American variety. Hope to do so one of these years, have a friend in New Brunswick that apparently knows where they live. Terry
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Posted: Sun Aug 10th, 2008 05:51 am |
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Now I just learned something here, I had no idea that the story of the mother carrying her young also held over in Europe. I'll have to ask my friend who runs the woodcock shoot about it.
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Art Wheaton
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Posted: Sun Aug 10th, 2008 12:10 pm |
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Great woodcock album pics. Does anybody have a great pic of a gunner shooting doubles on grouse? Maybe even a good high res digital of a painting by a well know artist like Ripley, Pleissner, Weiler et al. Would like to illustrate a submission to RGS magazine on shooting a double....even a double on woodcock or mixed double would work.
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Drew Hause MD
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Posted: Sun Aug 10th, 2008 12:29 pm |
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Thanks all; it was great fun putting the album together. I have a soft spot for woodcock also, and used to find them regularly along the Osage and Grand rivers in SW MO-probably non-migratory natives. Couldn't bring myself to shoot any more since one died in my hand after the retrieve looking at me with those big eyes.
And Terry, the Danchin and Riab woodcock are Eurasian Scolopax rusticola.
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Posted: Sun Aug 10th, 2008 01:45 pm |
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Art, I have a vivid mental picture of my only double on ruffed grouse but unfortunately can't send it to you . . . sorry.
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Posted: Sun Aug 10th, 2008 02:53 pm |
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May I add this. Not a Parker but still nice.
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Austin W Hogan
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Posted: Sun Aug 10th, 2008 03:18 pm |
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American Woodcock, Louis Aggassis Fuertes; Plate 31, Birds of America 1917
Best, Austin
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Dave Fuller
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Posted: Sun Aug 10th, 2008 03:55 pm |
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| The Woodcock looks nice with a 20 ga repro too I think. Attached Image (viewed 596 times):
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Russ Jackson
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Posted: Sun Aug 10th, 2008 05:47 pm |
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Dave; A few threads down the question was asked, Does this get you goin' I have to say, THIS gets me goin! I love to hunt these little birds, cant hardly wait until season opens ! Beautiful gun and here in Pa. we call that a limit !
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Dave Fuller
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Posted: Sun Aug 10th, 2008 06:01 pm |
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| Thanks Russ - Some people don't care for the repro... I'm not one of them. That little 20ga has served me well, its never malfunctioned, it points itself, and I like the way it looks. - Dave Attached Image (viewed 570 times):
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Posted: Sun Aug 10th, 2008 06:04 pm |
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| Wilson's Snipe, Louis Aggassis Fuertes, Birds of America, Plate 32 Attached Image (viewed 556 times):
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Russ Jackson
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Posted: Sun Aug 10th, 2008 06:11 pm |
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Dave ;It is in fact a very nice looking gun ! I do not at the moment own a Repro. gun but I keep threatening to buy one . I guess its like anything else "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" ! I guess what my problem is at the rate they are increasing in value, do you buy NIB. and never use it ,or try to find one with a little wear to it so you can shoot the daylights out of it, or just keep buying the originals and use them for what they were intended!
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Posted: Sun Aug 10th, 2008 07:38 pm |
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| All of the above.
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Dave Fuller
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Posted: Sun Aug 10th, 2008 08:03 pm |
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| Agreed - shoot 'em. The repro I do not care to shoot much is the "Sporting Clays Classic" I find the blunderbuss shaped barrels, made to accommodate the screw-in chokes, to be annoying. The 20s are abundant and if you shop its pretty easy to find a minty one with which you'll love to shoot timberdoodles. Just find a place like the one shown below, you won't have to go far to find a few. Attached Image (viewed 515 times):
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Posted: Sun Aug 10th, 2008 08:41 pm |
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| A local carver did this for me several years ago. Attached Image (viewed 503 times):
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