Wild Surroundings

10/06/2024

Here is a link to a recent blog I did for in-home, empty-gun summer routines to keep you in tune for the upcoming season

https://wildsurroundings.myshopify.com/blogs/wild-surroundings-blog/summer-time-bullet-points-to-help-you-be-ready-for-this-fall

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Summer Time Bullet Points To Help You Be Ready For This Fall Below are a handful of bullet points and their meanings to remind you what and how to practice this summer so that the beginning of the next season is not wasted on refreshing your memory. Along with your occasional recreation shoot, pract...

04/06/2024

Check out my video on footwork for gunning in the field!
This is one of several instruction videos to be released over the upcoming months. It can also be seen at: LarsJacob.com drop-down Lars Jacob Wingshooting.
https://youtu.be/YP77m-PpWgk

Filmed and edited by Chris Ingram of Featherwind Creative

Lars Jacob of Lars Jacob Wingshooting and Wild Surroundings is at Peaceable Hill in Shoreham, Vermont to teach wingshooters how to operate with a stance of m...

23/04/2024

It appears someone else knows my Black Morel patch!

22/04/2024

16/04/2024

Peaceable Hill’s Chance, I can’t wait ‘till it's bird season again, setter and I are doing spring maintenance on the instructional field.

15/04/2024

Been a week now and thinking back about the day of the eclipse. I was fortunate to be in South Texas (Maverick County) at the Paloma where I do wing shooting instruction. The clouds were thick but thinned out at the right time. The day was filled with good food, great people, and fun hunting and fishing. My friends the Green Bros. had great success with the turkeys including a first spring Rio for Charlie. Later Charlie finished the day with a fantastic Largemouth for a single day, eclipse blast & cast!
Very good times.

12/04/2024

This is how we “Jingle and Go” in South Texas! Great time working with Ryan & Hassie on their wing shooting skills.

05/04/2024

The only thing better than a chunk of firewood is a chunk of firewood encrusted with wet, heavy snow!

29/03/2024

Nothing like a patch of spring-thaw cowsh*t to get these 2-year-olds all b***d up to strut their stuff!

27/03/2024

Peaceable Hill Farm has a new one for the stable! This is 8-week-old Bandit with his owner/operator, CJ. Bandit is tri-color English Setter that is, definitely, not shy. Official introduction of both Bandit & CJ coming soon. Peaceable Hill Farm will be posting this little guy's progress this summer as he is prepared for Bandit's apprenticeship this fall.

26/02/2024

Heading Home Today. Sharing a wonderful Maverick County Sunrise. The second photo is blown up to show the Sandhill Cranes flying through.

23/02/2024

Celebrating the end of the '23/'24 quail season with Roger's famous buttermilk fried Kansas & South Texas quail.
Absolutely Fantastic!

09/01/2024

Strip down and maintenance on one of the Try-Guns. Absolutely love this between the wars London made beauty. It has two cast adjustments for proper fitting. Unfortunately in today's language we only speak of cast at heel, the one place we don't need extra cast, outside of a permanent shoulder, neck or collarbone handicap. The production guns today boast right or left handed casts available at 1/8" cast @ heel. A bunch of hoarse biscuits! At face, where cast is needed, is measuring 1/16" at best. Insignificant. Cast at face can be needed for several reasons but the most common are: full face with narrow pupillary distance and: the two lines of sight not coming together in front of the dominant eye but rather in-between the pupil and bridge of nose. This Try-Gun is set up with 3/8" cast off. typical of someone pointing in front of the tear gland. With this Try-Gun I can sweep the heel back behind the cast at face and also measure 3/8" off. If it were a single cast adjustment Try-Gun, the heel would be at 3/4" off and would hard to anchor inside of the ball of the shoulder.
Remember, the more important cast measurements are at face and toe of the stock.
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25/12/2023

So Fantastic Having The Boys home Together! Merry Christmas Everybody!!

26/09/2023

Techniques that helped you shoot high scores on the clays course this past summer will not help you this fall. Time to change methodologies that work best in the field.

19/03/2023

Great Conversation with Bob Owens and His brother, Kevin of Lone Duck's Gun Dog Chronicles.
We talked about the changes in habits and habitats with upland and migratory birds, differences in methodologies in clay vs wing shooting, todays new wing shooter and where they came from and of course, my two favorites, dogs & bird guns.
Very easy listening.

‎Show Lone Duck’s Gun Dog Chronicles, Ep E 161. Wingshooting, dogs & old shotguns - Mar 15, 2023

03/08/2022

I had a great conversation with Joel Penkala from The Gun Room podcast about wing shooting, gun fitting, instructions and even about building underhammers. Good times!

‎Show The Gun Room, Ep TGR: Episode 37, Lars Jacob - Jul 8, 2022

24/05/2022

It’s Tail Dragger season Peaceable Hill Farm! Super light single engine planes and pop-up tents are synonymous with hunting and fishing adventures. It reminded me of our 1953 Cessna 170B loaded up with guns and Labradors heading up to our camp on the Tabusintac in New Brunswick. As you can see our camp logo, designed by my father in 1970, is now my Wild Surroundings logo. Those were good times.

30/04/2022

Tomorrow is the big day for turkey hunters in our backyard of Vermont & New York. I wish the best of luck to everyone!
Below is a link to this year's Bart Jacob Memorial 16th Annual Youth Turkey Calling Contest. It is a Hoot, eight hoots to be exact!

The 16th annual Bart Jacob Memorial Youth Turkey Calling Contest was held at Kehoe Conservation Camp in Castleton last Saturday. Seven Days’ Eva Sollberger met some of the competitors and got a lesson in turkey calls.

15/03/2022

Lars Jacob Wingshooting and are very exited to be working with . They have partnered up with RFM to bring to the American market delightful hunting doubles. These fine guns are built to the shooter’s dimensions and desires at an amazing value. RFM is a small family owned and operated business in Italy since 1957.

10/03/2022

Even though I boast that we are in the banana belt of Vermont eventually winter catches up with us. During January & February it slowed down at Peaceable Hill Farm, so Glenn went flying around the Adirondacks from frozen lake to frozen lake with his taildragger buddies while I sat on one lake in my River Rocker, made by waiting for warmer temps and working on my whiskey slushy recipe. Well we are back in action now with great weather. Peaceable still has great cover for walk ups, the instruction area is in full swing and we have one more driven shoot on the 2nd of April.

09/03/2022

Fantastic fun with Nick Larson .podcast talking about shotguns, methodologies of shooting, gun fitting and everything else related. Check out the link.
https://birdshotpodcast.com/167-wingshooting-and-shotguns-with-lars-jacob/

Wingshooting instructor and gun fitter Lars Jacob joins the show to talk shotguns, shooting, gun fit and more

29/11/2021

Great shoot on Friday. Our annual Thanksgiving Shoot at Peaceable was fantastic despite a little wetness!
Hit the link for more pics.
https://conta.cc/312uxab

24/11/2021

Traps are installed in the new instruction area at Peaceable Hill Farm! Plus great pics of the latest shoot in the recent Wild Surroundings Newsletter.
https://conta.cc/3CJpuId

November Newsletter #1 “In hunting, the finding and killing of the game is after all only a part of the whole. The free, self-reliant and adventurous life, with its rugged and stalwart democracy; Th

29/10/2021

Wild Surroundings October newsletter issue 2. All about the new instruction area with pics taken from the top of the new tower. Also high pheasant over the cedars, wine glasses and more!

https://conta.cc/3GzuNNB

October Newsletter #2 “In hunting, the finding and killing of the game is after all only a part of the whole. The free, self-reliant and adventurous life, with its rugged and stalwart democracy; The

16/10/2021

Latest Wild Surroundings Newsletter

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Issue 1 “In hunting, the finding and killing of the game is after all only a part of the whole. The free, self-reliant and adventurous life, with its rugged and stalwart democracy; The wild surround

14/09/2021

Wild Surroundings September Newsletter

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Issue 1 “In hunting, the finding and killing of the game is after all only a part of the whole. The free, self-reliant and adventurous life, with its rugged and stalwart democracy; The wild surround

13/08/2021

A Day at Ten Mile River Preserve

I will be at TMRP Saturday, August 21st for a day of gun fittings and 90 minute instructions. Call Fritter or Tyler 845-877-3560 and lock in a slot.

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Shotgun Instruction & Gun Fittings Are Both Available On Saturday, August 21st Shotgun Instruction & Gun Fitting With Lars Jacob Saturday, August 21st This time of year is a great opportunity to conc

11/08/2021

Wild Surroundings August 2021, #1 Newsletter

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Issue 1 “In hunting, the finding and killing of the game is after all only a part of the whole. The free, self-reliant and adventurous life, with its rugged and stalwart democracy; The wild surround

01/08/2021

Unloading Dad's old trapper's basket. Chanterelles are at their end but I stumbled onto a nice flush of blewits, a small handful of lobsters and a mature Berkeley's polypore. Was hoping for hedgehogs but they eluded me.