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A grouse deserves better than to be shot on the ground.

— George Bird Evans An Affair with Grouse (1982)

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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)

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)

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