TR: The gourmet trip. (long)

"William Claspy" wrote in message
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I can't stop looking at those pictures! Are the bushes with such
beautiful
fall color on them the berry bushes? Cloudberry and lingon? Gosh.

Blueberry bushes, they look like that after the first nights with freezing
temperatures.

I've got a question though that just struck me. I'm not a hunter, so bear
with me, and I'm not trying to start an argument. Just a question from
someone with no experience in that sport:

The total sum of ptarmigans shot during the trip was to
become exactly 100.

What do you do with that many birds? I mean, did you take them all home
with you to eat, or do you leave them there for the scavenger animals?

We took them all home. I shot 17 of those, not as good as the other guys
with the shotgun (they have both competed shooting trap).
Andreas sells his birds to people that cannot go there hunting and a
restaurant in London, he might save 10 for himself but not much more.
What Jimmy did with his birds I haven't got a clue about.

I guess that's the thing about hunting that doesn't appeal to me- kind of
tough to do catch and release!

Thanks again for such a great illustrated report!

Bill (whose great grandparents left Dalarna in the 1870's...)

Hey there, shouldn't you consider a visit??

/Roger