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d. 1998 United States
George Bird Evans (28 December 1906 – 5 May 1998) was an author, an artist, a dog breeder, and a sportsman. Evans' most notable contributions are in the area of upland gunning with English Setters.
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If a man’s life is not long enough, a dog’s is even shorter and anything you can do to make that fuller is worthwhile.
Much of the pleasure of shooting is what accompanies it and sharing it all with a good friend.
If you can approach shooting as something to be enjoyed, not a frustrating obsession, it can enrich your life.
Ruffed grouse dogs are bred, not born, and once born they are developed, not made.
An Affair with Grouse (1982)
A grouse deserves better than to be shot on the ground.
An Affair with Grouse (1982)
I know, as I've always known, that a gunner’s paradiso lies within himself, involved in his attitude toward his dog, his reverence for his bird; the boundaries are mental, not physical.
An Affair with Grouse (1982)
And if gunning over an intelligent handsome setter enriches my sport, certainly a hearthful of them on a winter evening or speckled faces peering out of our station wagon are things to value.
Each of us has that ember within him to create his own Camelot, to form his life by taste. Being different from the crowd, like quality, is not a vice. Tradition and standards shape shooting as surely as manners make the man.
An Affair with Grouse (1982)
Without quality in life, there is only Death waiting at the end for all of us, like the bird. Being one of those fortunate men whose existence burns more brightly because of gunning grouse, I have learned that the place to look for quality is within yourself.
An Affair with Grouse (1982)