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Joined: 03 Jul 2005 Posts: 370 Location: Amarillo, Texas

Bob hunt in the Panhandle of texas.

We hunted on Joe's family ranch on the Brazos Southeast of Lubbock. We used singleshot hammer guns to conserve the birds. We had a drought this spring and the birds in this part of the world are somewhat sparse. I used my 16 gauge Ebral Brothers - 31" damascus barrels, 5 points of choke, 4-1/2 pounds. I shot 1 ounce of #7s. Joe used a Tisdall 12 gauge - damascus barrels, about 5-1/2 pounds, I think it is choked 17 points and I think the barrels are 31-1/2" long. I keep trying to convert Joe to 16 gauge but he is hard-headed (beside being tight). Oh well, some people catch trout with a #22 parachute Adams, others with dynamite.

Here is a picture of Joe going to kick up a Bob the rascally creeping Britanny Beau had pointed. The big-butted Brie is out of the shot but she is sneaking up trying to steal Beau's point and get a leg up on Beau on the retrieve (if you doubleclick the pictures they get bigger):

This is a different point:

This is the Ebral 16 with a hen I took with it:

again with a Bob:

One last gratuitous pointing shot:

Joe shot a picture of me kicking up the birds during the point - it shows me raising my gun and several Bobs coming up. He gave me several excellent pictures on a CD. Unfortunately I don't have th skill to post them here. Maybe he would be so kind as to post some of them.

Here is a link to my photobucket site. You are welcome to browse around.
http://s98.photobucket.com/albums/l274/AmarilloMike/

Thanks!

Mike

Member Joined: 08 Nov 2005 Posts: 3438 Location: Illinois

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Great photos Mike! I like the pheasant pics. And Texas is obviously a good place to live..........take guns into the front yard in California for photos and see what happens. These liberal non-hunting anti-gun idiots would call the FBI, ATF, local agency and anyone else on their speed dial.

Joined: 03 Jul 2005 Posts: 370 Location: Amarillo, Texas

Thanks guys!

This part is a nice place to live in - I have hardly lived anyplace else.

Mike

Joined: 10 Oct 2006 Posts: 37 Location: Slaton, Texas

Great photos! (Nice dogs!) Is that on the North Double Mountain Fork someplace?

Joined: 03 Jul 2005 Posts: 370 Location: Amarillo, Texas

Thanks!

Joe has told me the name of the Brazos branch but I forget.

Mike

The Hammer single shot is very nice,,,

Any more information / history ??

rayb

Joined: 03 Jul 2005 Posts: 370 Location: Amarillo, Texas

Hi Ray:

The 16 Ebrall Brother I used is an English gun, extractor, straight grip. I am at the office as I write but I think it was "made" in Liverpool. I have had the gun for a year and a half - I got it from Charlie Pflueger at "Hill Rod and Gun". Charlie is a straight up guy - very trustworthy. My friend Flintsteel says it was probably made in the 1880s. It is a cool elegant gun and I surprised myself how well I can shoot it. If the dogs were on point we cocked the hammers before we kicked up the birds

Joined: 03 Jul 2005 Posts: 370 Location: Amarillo, Texas

Sorry about the unfinished post above - I had postus -interuptus. I was summoned home.

I did manage to shoot a couple of Bobs I stumbled across. That is the gun was uncocked and a bird got up unexpectedly and I was able to cock it shoot the bird. I missed a lot more of those than I hit.

I said Liverpool but now that I am home i can see it says Shrewsbury. How would you like to be married to a Shrewsburian?

Joe's 12 ga Tisdall seems very similar to my gun. It is also English made. Maybe Joe will pipe in with info on his gun.

I found out the other day Joe does own a 16 gauge. A beautiful old flintlock double. This is the thread about it on the doublegun forum:

http://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=15862&page=2#Post15862

Thanks for your interest!

Mike

Joined: 03 Jul 2005 Posts: 370 Location: Amarillo, Texas

Hi StoryBrown:
"Is that on the North Double Mountain Fork someplace?"
- I asked Joe and yes it is.

Thanks!

Mike

Joined: 03 Jul 2005 Posts: 370 Location: Amarillo, Texas

"Well, actually, the divorce was final in 2005"

I heard those were expensive!

Mike

Mike, great pictures. Very Happy

Seeing them, makes me homesick for that mesquite brush country and hunting bobs in it. I spent about 12 years hunting it and went through two generations of pointers doing it.

John

Joined: 03 Jul 2005 Posts: 370 Location: Amarillo, Texas

THanks John. I quail hunted more than fifty days last season. This year we didn't have a great hatch and I have been using pheasant hunting as a substitute - kind of like heroin addict on methadone.

In order to ease up on the Bobs and still hunt Joe and I have been taking turns shooting each point. That leaves the other one free to take pictures. I have taken more hunting pictures this year than the rest of my life put together. I have discovered that it is just about as much fun taking pictures of Joe missing as it is missing the bird myself.

Mike