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in becoming a member, visit www. PinehurstGunClubLLC.com or give Johnny or myself a call at (910) 992-4104. We'll be delighted to tell you all about it. RECIPES Since cooking is our theme and my actual assignment was to write a lifestyle piece, what better way than to share some wild game recipes provided by members of The Lower Forty Shooting, Angling and Inside Straight Club. Judge Parker's Recipe for Woodcock First, parboil the bird in salty water, and then roast it in a slow oven and serve it in halves on toast. The real secret is in the gravy, of course. I make a rich piquant sauce by adding finely chopped shallots, sautéed mushrooms, and six coriander seeds. They're very important, those six coriander seeds. Colonel Cobb's Recipe for Pheasant The trick is to cover it with strips of salt pork and baste it with olive oil, then sprinkle the whole thing with thyme, bay leaves, marjoram, tarragon, chervil, and basil. Grill it just enough so the flesh is white and firm. Doc Hall's Recipe for Venison I place the meat in an earthen crock filled with red wine and let it soak for 24 hours, lifting it out every couple of hours or so and beating the meat with a stick to make it tender. Mister McNab's Recipe for Duck Doc's recips 'tis the vurry way I cook a duck. I take some potable form of liquor and pour out about a tumblerful, and mar-r-rinate thoroughly. Pairsonally, I pr-r-refer a guid br-r-rand of Scotch. Editor's Note: Excerpts from Corey Ford's "Minutes of the Lower Forty" are from his October 1957 column in Field & Stream. All Ford's Lower Forty columns, almost 200— published and a few unpublished—have been compiled for a two-volume, limited- edition set. For further information on how you can reserve a set, email laurie@ PinehurstGunClubLLC.com. and how the sun broke through the dawn and skeins of geese grazed the horizon. One day your sons and daughters will tell their stories to their children, when they, too, take out their cherished memories of hunting with you. And though it's hard sometimes to hold your temper or stay cool in the heat of an argument, you always do in the woods, where courtesy and a cool head invariably prevail. Because you are a sportsman. Just like the man in the picture. n PInEhuRSt Gun Club Dick Stone's illustration of a gun club speaks to me in a particularly meaningful way. It's not far off from the one I'm dreaming about. You see, my husband, John Wiles, and I are working hard to bring back the old Pinehurst Gun Club, one of the best places on earth to shoot clays for almost a century. It's been gone for 25 years— but that dry period's about to end. This spring we're planning to open the first phase of shooting fields and a log cabin clubhouse like the one Annie Oakley taught from at the old Gun Club from 1914 to 1923. The new Pinehurst Gun Club, however, is being built on a different patch of ground: a glorious, untouched 461-acre parcel just ten minutes from the heart of historic Pinehurst Village. When you look across the banks of our two sparkling lakes, or watch the sun set behind our 300-acre plantation of mature longleaf pines—well, it's something lovely to behold. As custodians of such bounty, we aim to keep it that way, and with the help of our land planner, the great golf course architect Dan Maples, and the NRA, we'll carve out the two 14-station sporting clays courses and ten other shooting fields so we don't disturb nature's handiwork. Within a couple of years our members' lodge, Sealgair House ("Sealgair" means "hunter" in Gaelic) will be complete. You know the classic movie, Holiday Inn, starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, and White Christmas, again with Bing. Well, think of those old, gracious, sprawling, white clapboard New England farmhouses, because that's pretty much what Sealgair House will be. We're making room for only 300 members and their families. If you're interested S P O R T I N G C L A S S I C S • 69