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I couldn't resist this picture. I have often been told, when I try to explain how thick some of the upland cover is around here and why it would be nice to have a shorter barreled fowler (as opposed to the 42 incher) to work through it, that what I need to do is use the same trails that the game does. There is a great deal of truth in that but sometimes it ain't happenin'.
I was out with Belle the setter following game trails through the Barberries in Elk Grove looking for grouse. We'd had two early flushes but hadn't seen even a wingtip. Then we came to a wall of barberry. She went in. I laughed. In this case a short barrel wouldn't have made a difference.
That little dark space just about center is where she went. That was the game trail. It was the only way in to this patch - about 60 yards broad and as much deep - that she could find. Fortunately, she didn't point a bird.
Pete
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I was out with Belle the setter following game trails through the Barberries in Elk Grove looking for grouse. We'd had two early flushes but hadn't seen even a wingtip. Then we came to a wall of barberry. She went in. I laughed. In this case a short barrel wouldn't have made a difference.
That little dark space just about center is where she went. That was the game trail. It was the only way in to this patch - about 60 yards broad and as much deep - that she could find. Fortunately, she didn't point a bird.
Pete
