Days Gone By: September 2007
Bradleys, Bobs and Baldwin City
Here are two pictures from my early quail hunting days. The one picture, of my dad (John Bradley) and I in my grandmothers living room, was taken in 1969. My father is wearing his father's hunting coat. I'm holding a Savage Fox 16 gauge double-gun. The other picture was taken on our farm in Baldwin City, Kansas in 1977. I am wearing that same hunting coat from the other picture. Sam, our Brittany, was purchased in Eudora, Kansas, for $50 from a man who was down on his luck and needed to feed his family. Sam's tail wasn't docked, so he resembled a setter in that department. Sam took to our family instantly and was a great quail dog. Our farm held three to four 20-bird coveys on 160 acres, any given day. It was those days, an invitation to hunt quail 25 years later, and a realization that the quail are nearly gone that I became a founding member and treasurer of the first Kentucky QF chapter, Bluegrass 3029.
As told to Quail Forever by Broc Bradley
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