My name is Gregg and this blog is something I’ve been wanting to do for a while.
I’m an avid bird hunter and gun collector. I also spend a lot of time outdoors fly fishing and canoeing, and my latest hobby is learning how to play guitar.
I grew up hunting ruffed grouse and woodcock in Berlin, NH, a town in the northern most part of the state. Today, I live in the Northeast and I hunt in Maine and New Hampshire. I also make it out to Montana, South Dakota, and Wisconsin whenever I can.
I’ve always been interested in double guns and bird dogs. When I was a kid, my dad used to take me to gunshops so I could look over the SxS and O/U shotguns. I got my first hunting dog when I was 12 – a Brittany. I sent it for training with money I made at Burger King. Money from the same job also paid for my first shotgun – a 20g Remington 870 with a straight-gripped stock.
In the 1990s, two things fanned my interests in fine shotguns: The Double Gun Journal and a gunshop in Kittery, Maine, called New England Arms. New England Arms was to gunshops what the DGJ is to gun magazines: the best of its kind. I ended up leaving a good job in corporate America to work at New England Arms. While I was only there a year , I gained a decade’s worth of knowledge about fine guns. I also made some excellent friends.
Today, I work in advertising and I have an English Pointer named Puck. I still hunt all over the place and I’m hoping to do a lot more of it in the future.
I hope you enjoy this site. If you have questions, comments, or criticisms, let me know.
Thanks
Gregg
Gregg@dogsanddoubles.com
Sunset in Montana:
You sir are a blessing I like all the postings of auctions I too grew up hunting the north east ny long island and all I did in my time off from school was fish the resevoirs and look at doublebarrel guns at the gun shops one gun in my collection is a beretta 32 gauge hammer gun lovely engraving made in 1931
Gregg, first visit to your site and enjoy it. If comeing to Wisconsin for a bird hunt let me know and may be can show you some new spots. John
Thanks for the note. I appreciate it.
I used to live in Appleton, many years ago. I’ve hunted the Park Falls area quite a bit.
How are things looking this season?
Gregg
Great stuff Gregg! Jeff
Officially I think the drumming count was down in some areas. Winter was mild, think it should be good as last year.
Thanks for the great stuff Gregg, you’ve managed to help me stay somewhat sane at work while reading this blog. The woodcock are on the move and I’m stuck in this office…
Thanks for the note. I’ll be stuck in the office the next three weeks – no hunting for a while.
Gregg, adding you to my links on my website….Jeff
Gregg, just added you to my favorites. Thanks for all the auction links. Park Falls is a lot of fun. I also enjoy reading anything by Michael McIntosh. Sorry to hear of his passing.
Gregg, Well written piece on “Geoffs Place”. We will be gathering for the Memorial Sunday 6-12-11 (Might be Story before the weekend is Out!!) trevallion. 207-361-1130. (What “Info do you have on E.J.Riley c1858-1880 ?…
Gregg, I think you and I are brothers from other mothers, both fascinated with guns, flyfishing, and trying to learn to play guitar. I was born in the wrong state for all 3 (AZ) Constantly feeding the wood with moisture on my cane rod, guitars, and guns
Gregg,
I grew up west of Boston, but lived up in Dummer, NH, during the 1970′s and worked for the now defunct Brown Paper Company as a logger. My heart is still up in northern NH and we are lucky enough to have a second home in Stewartstown to escape to fairly often.
You have a great website with lots of interesting information. I laughed all through that video you shot from the back of Puck. Great work. Keep it coming.
Jerry
Jerry-
Thanks for your note. I’ve hunted around Dummer a bit. Nice area.
Take care,
Gregg
Hmmm. I guess I misunderstood….Lefever F is nfs! You look familiar to me. I bought a Lefever D grade 3 barrel set from N.E. Arms years back. I think you were there.
Anyway. I share your love of good guns and rowdy, sweet dogs. Always have, always will. Paul
Hello, I just purchased a w c scott hammer dbl. 10 ga. with 26″ demascuss barrels today. barrels are badley pitted, stock has been replaced (very crude replacment) but the engraving is still in very excellent codition. engraved geese on side lock, storks or herons on bottom. shotgun is still tight butin need of a good stock. any chance that you might know of a replacement stock for this old dbl.? ser. no. is 39xxx. I can take pics and send if you would like. thanks, Bill Queen, a bird hunter in Huson Montana.
Gregg, I just came across your website which I know I will enjoy. Great sounding bio of yourself, and like yourself, I also love fine doubles and pursuing any species of upland bird. No other leisure activity is as dear to me as being in the fields and forests, shooting a double gun and usually missing the bird I am trying to hit. I recently sold my company to a multinational firm and I plan to spend four months this upcoming season afield, traveling to several states with my two ESS’s, going after prairie chickens, ruffed grouse, chuckars, quail, blue, spruce and sharp tail grouse, wood cock, and maybe a few ducks included. Regarding guns, I own a few and I must say that London guns, mostly the big three or four names, are my favorites. Regarding the outdoors, there is just something special about sleeping in my FJ Cruiser, along a fast moving stream, surrounded by dogs and fine double guns – dreaming of the fine bird I recently consumed for my evening meal. Afterwords, nothing tastes better than bourbon from a tin cup. I just wish I had had the time to do all this when I was younger but it is never to late in life to enjoy whatever passions we have in our brief lives on this enchanted planet.
Best of luck to you afield and thanks much for this fine web site. Michael
Michael-
Thanks for your note. It sounds like you’re living the life – I’m envious. Please keep me post on how things go. IF you send some pics, I would love to post them here on the site.
Gregg
Gregg..Great site and nice to know that it is alright to dream of a vanished America when the Parker’s were brand new and the woods of the northeast were teeming with game birds. Again, thanks for keeping the home fires burning .Sincerely, Andy Kelley the last living confederate veteran
Andy-
Thanks for the post. Good shooting!
Gregg
Gregg, I am Roy’s “as-told-to.” Still hunting birds behind a pointing dog at age 71. You should read the American Field report of Roy’s winning of the Grand National Grouse championship with Burton Fleetfoot Ginger. It will send shivers along your spine if you are a bird dog lover.
Want a copy? Just ask. – John L. Rogers
John-
I would love one. I just emailed you about it. Let me know if you need a snail mail address.
Thanks for the offer,
Gregg
Hello john!
Glad you’re still going at 71 – I’m pushing 73 and manage to keep after the birds. Only problem is I can’t keep up with younger guys and don’t like going into the woods alone anymore. Oh, well. Need to find some decent shooting not too far from home.
Off to England in a few weeks where I’ll take advantage of the excellent coaching available at H&H in London. Gotta keep trying to maintain the “edge!”
Frank