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I don't know your rivers, but can you go low tech- use a small motor where you can, and row through the shallows? If your oar accidentally touches bottom will the landowner fight you over it?

The box I showed you was 17 1/2 by 8 1/4 wide by 8 inches high, with the gun holding ends up to 16 inches. For your friend's use, I would probably go for even more show- walnut or cedar or if you make it out of pine stain it to look like walnut. and there you could use corner protectors to dress...

I've made quite a few, 30 or so, and since I'm a cheapskate I make them out of recycled free pallet wood. I try to make them look like a farmer went out to his lumber pile and picked out a few pine boards and nailed them together, grabbed some worn-out harness leather for a handle and hinges and...

It seems to me a few years ago on this page was a "What's on your bookshelf" thread. MacQuarrie showed up on a lot of replies. Readers here who do not know MacQuarrie should not begin with this book- go back and read any of the Old Duck Hunters trilogy, or MacQuarrie Treasury, and then read...

Barnes, Wisconsin, north of Hayward. MacQuarrie's cabin was on Middle Eau Claire Lake. The museum is about 3 miles east of Mac's cabin. bahamuseum.org will give you better directions. Come on up sometime. Limited hours in the winter, but president Steve Lynch is always willing to open up...

Yes, Found Stories of The Old Duck Hunters can be purchased through Amazon, and if you have free shipping you'll save the $3.00 Barnes Area Historical Association needs to charge for shipping. It's better for the BAHA museum if you order directly through the website- We get a better return than...

Yes, I'm sure there are MacQuarrie ODHA readers and fans who are not aware of efforts going on in Northern Wisconsin to find his writings, probably some on this page. Thanks.

Those of you who have read the Old Duck Hunters Association books should know that there is a new compilation of MacQuarrie magazine stories just out. It's called Found Stories of the Old Duck Hunters, and that's a good description. It includes six Old Duck Hunters stories that Zack Taylor...

How strong are you? Back when I was about 50-55, I had a sailboat a little bigger than a Sunfish, and I could lift one end, slide it into truck just fine- I think I could still do it today, 20 years later. The challenge is they are so smooth there's no easy way to get a hold of them, so you'll...

Wow. Just Wow. And people who don't hunt will never get to know the feeling. Great story. Thanks, Dave Evenson

You'll likely want some serious weight on bottom shelf when you start turning anything big, but the station sure looks like it will handle that. Thanks, Dave Evenson

My father in law, WWII vet, just died at 98, and we're cleaning out his effects. I just read Ernie Pyle's book "Brave Men" re the Anzio landing, and the D-Day landing. I'd recommend it to anyone. Brave Men, indeed. I was part of that little Southeast Asia thing fifty years ago, and I never saw...

For those of you who can't get enough Gordon MacQuarrie, there is a new book of his Milwaukee Journal columns available. The Barnes Area Historical Association is home to the MacQuarrie Museum, and publisher of this book. You can get the book from Amazon, but the museum makes a little more...

Zack Taylor and Willow Creek Press put out the Trilogy, MacQuarrie Miscellany, MacQuarrie Treasury, and Fly Fishing with MacQuarrie. The other book you should read, if you like MacQuarrie is Keith Crowley's biography of Mac. Keith really did the research and you'll understand so much more after...

The good folks at the Barnes Wisconsin museum are conducting the 4th annual Gordon MacQuarrie Pilgrimage on Friday and Saturday September 7 and 8, with a canoe trip on the Brule River on Sunday. The canoe trip is nearly full, not quite, but there are slots available for the tour of ODHA sites...

Hi Paul. That's good- I'll look forward to seeing you. Thanks, Dave Evenson

I don't own a copy, but I check it out of library every year or so- one of the greats of the golden age. I've never hunted tidewaters, it's obvious it takes a whole different understanding than us inlanders. Dave Evenson

Hi Larry. I meant that the book is available for sale on line, if you can't make the Milwaukee Sports Show. But most of the columns are online also. Google scanned old Milwaukee Journals, as well as thousands of other newspapers. You can find most of the columns I chose (not all, some you have...

Hi Matt. These stories were published in the Milwaukee Journal during MacQuarrie's tenure as outdoor editor. They have not been republished in any other book, such as the trilogy, or Treasury. That said, some of them were essentially first drafts of magazine stories that later were republished...