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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.

— George Bird Evans

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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)

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