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Case: See you later, Callie, and happy hunting over there

Contributed photo / "Guns & Cornbread" columnist Larry Case has good memories of fall turkey hunting with Callie, an English pointer.
Contributed photo / "Guns & Cornbread" columnist Larry Case has good memories of fall turkey hunting with Callie, an English pointer.

“Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware

Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.” — Rudyard Kipling

I really don’t know how old she was. I know there will be some who will berate me for that, but I just didn’t keep track of it. I guess I was busy with hunting and life at the time, and somehow the date and time I got her just slipped away.

One thing is for sure: It didn’t matter at all to Callie, the small-in-stature English pointer with no papers and the heart of a lion.

At least 15 years ago (probably more), I was looking for another bird-dog derivative canine for the purpose of fall turkey hunting. A lot of people don’t know about this, even a lot of hunters, but there is an old traditional method of hunting wild turkeys in the fall. This is completely different from spring hunting, you understand.