Mr. Buck

[loggy]

Today is Mr. Buck's birthday. There is a nice article by Jim Casada in today's sportingclassicsdaily.com on Nash Buckingham.
Enjoy-John

[Stan Hillis]

Yes, it is. Thanks, John.

The wildfowling world was greatly blessed when Mistah Nash first saw the light of day, on this day in !880. You is gone, Cap'n, but you is not fergotten. Dis yeah' world is a better place on account of you.

SRH

[OH Osthaus]

I am one of those who enjoys Nash Buckingham's writing

Jim Casada on the other hand not so much - If Mr Buck had a 90+ year career - he started writing in the womb, and he left Harvard because he was home sick? oh - give me a break- other biographies, including his autobiography clearly state he went home due to a serious bout with malaria - a very serious disease at the time. And even Nash says he left the University of Tennessee a month prior to graduation- one does wonder what his oration would have been like as a lawyer

"whatever he inherited from his parents vanished like milkweed spores in a September storm" I guess that's nice flowery prose - but he was gainfully employed most of his life - Mr Buck was impoverished in his later years, and struggled to get some stories printed to pay bills, but the style of the magazines had passed him by, and he was supported by family as well as friends

So, i appreciate the reminder of this anniversary of his birth - If I had a Super Fox I'd fire off a couple super-x's as a salute
(wonder if he would mind Remington Expresses out of a pin gun or a Smith LR)
so instead - I'll reread some of his works and smile-

[tarheel]

Just came across this article, else would have posted sooner, don't own any Foxes, just LC Smiths and Brownings-have lurked on the site for years and thoroughly appreciated the useful and interesting information I've garnered:

The October 2014 issue of "Gun Dog" magazine has an article entitled "Return to Beaver Dam" that has a lot of interesting info on Mr. Buck's old duck hunting grounds-nice photos of the lake and blinds, current owners of the shooting preserve now ensconced there, local color on the Tunica MS area as it relates/related to Mr. Nash's writings, etc.

With all that, the hunt at Beaver Dam that is recounted in the article was done at least in part with the author and the father/son duo that now own/manage Beaver Dam using HE Super Foxes-however that's just the Fox related part, am sure the background info on the Supers will not be any news to anyone on this board-the author was shooting one of the Supers that originally belonged to NB.

Anyone interested might be able to find out how to get that back issue from Gun Dog via their website, for anyone who has not already seen the article.

Thanks again for your most informative site!

[Stan Hillis]

Beaver Dam Lake is a neat place, tarheel. Several of us met up there several years ago for a duck hunt with the Boyds, and there were five HE Foxes in the blind at one time. Neither Mike nor his son had HEs that morning, but I think Mike's son may have had a Fox. Not many ducks the morning we hunted, but lots of good conversation and fun. Having breakfast at the Blue and White Restaurant was a treat, too. Not many places I know of where you can be surrounded by twenty or more duck hunters having breakfast at 4:00 in the morning. And, if I might add, their potato soup is "to die for".

All my best, SRH