Ah, yes......the 'hunting' room.
I've been trying to get my 'hunting' room in order.........but we have too much 'stuff'.....(it's a small room).
So, I'm using one bedroom for a 'gun room', and the rest of house has become the 'hunting' room (appropriate, since we're still 'hunting' for everything else we moved from the old house).
Anyway

........I've got some old shotshell and rifle boxes, old Heddon lures, powder tins, my Grand Dad's wooden decoys, some of Anne's Dad's mache decoys, duck calls and some Sports Afield magazines from the late 50's. I thought I'd design / build an oak and glass display case and set up a little display of my old hunting memorabelia (?.....where's my dictiionary?). I could put Anne's Daddy's Parker and his model 12's in there, somewhere, too.
There's a long hall in the middle of the house ('ain't good for nothin' else!

) that I plan to adorne (clutter) with photos of our family (all the hunting dogs we've had through the years). I'll select a photo or 2 of each dog, have it framed, and put a brass collar tag at the bottom, with their name and dates on it. Then, I'd like to install some cute little track lighting to highlight each photo. There's 5 Brittanies and 1 Golden so far. Another Golden and a Quarter horse in the future

......(yes, the horse points quail, too.......'not worth a damn on retrieving, though)
Then (since I finally have space for mounts), I'll hopefully start collecting some decent animals to have mounted. I'm gonna start with one of those 16-pound honkers........Oh yeah!.........'gotta have one of those ugly-a$$ exotic billy-goats they featured on the Outdoor Channel this weekend.......ya know.......you just walk up to them (while they just stand there, watching you) and plug'em in the butt with a over-bored 'wildcat' cartridge that's better-suited for an animal the size of a chicken.

I wanna make sure MINE has really uneven, unsymetrical horns, though.
Then, I'll die

......and it'll be somebody ELSE's turn to worry about what to do with a bunch o' useless old junk.

Oh well.......'guess I'll enjoy it while it lasts......
Jim.....these are just some ideas......(and wharped thoughts)

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