Re: Field Grade 12 Ga Side by Side - What to do with it? Archived Message
Posted by MarketHunter on July 30, 2007, 3:06 pm, in reply to "Re: Field Grade 12 Ga Side by Side - What to do with it?"
Same name too. He's Link Lowden Hoffard and I'm Destry Link Hoffard. Mother and Father figured they'd better call me after him if I was going to go to the trouble of being born on the same day. It was cloudy last year and he was having trouble seeing the birds. I was standing down about 50 yards from him and he wasn't doing any firing so I went to check on him. He was madder than a wet hen, saying by the time he saw them he wasn't able to get his gun up quick enough. I just unloaded and stood with him to call them out so he could be ready. The farm we shoot on always has a ton of birds and everybody gets limits pretty quick. So when the other guys started leaving the field we just eased out and went to dinner. Once he'd killed a few he was pleased and I didn't care if I shot or not. He managed 6 with about 10 cartridges. When he'd get them spotted he was just as poisonous as ever. Hopefully the sun will be shining this year and he can really get after them. He only goes on the first day anymore, but he still fishes pretty regular, puts out a garden, drives himself around, and mows his own lawn. Not bad for a man nearly a century old. When I'm his age I'll have been dead for 50 years. Destry
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