Your Favorite Gamebird

[charlie cleveland]

this is really a good thread im really enjoying this....thanks to old and reliable ..... charlie

[MarketHunter]

Canvasback

If you haven't hunted them with the wind howling, the whitecaps rolling, and ice making on the decoys, you've not lived.

[10 bore]

Originally Posted by Destry L. Hoffard

Canvasback

If you haven't hunted them with the wind howling, the whitecaps rolling, and ice making on the decoys, you've not lived.

that is one duck i have on top of my to kill list with redhead next scott

[C.O.B.]

Charllie are you saying i'm old...and reliable?

[Steve Kleist]

Destry,
I am with you. A flock of "Cans" heading into your decoys is by far the most exciting moment and memory of the outdoors. Redheads and scaup are close behind.
Steve Kleist Ely, MN

[Duckman]

The drake pintail for his beauty, his performance on the dinner table when roasted quickly at high temperature and his excruciatingly slow and wary approach to decoys on a bluebird day when you are alone and there are no distant shots to flare him.

[Garrett Begovich]

During a slow day in elk camp I like to unwind by taking a walk along some paths/trails and bag a few grouse, either ruffed or blue, it doesn't matter to me. Just so long as I have my Parker I'm happy.

[Quail1]

Favorite does in my case pertain to what is locally available currently.

I have very fond memories of looking skyward as a flock of Blacks circle warily to a chuckle then make for the decoys in Mississquoi Bay, or Canadas doing "card tricks" into a farm pond after sailing over fields of decoys, or hearing branches snapping as Wood ducks come through the trees heading back into the marsh during the evening flight, or when I got my first pointing dog, a Drathaar, and getting 10 points in 5 minutes on woodcock in a quaggy section of Vermont woods that I had always previously raced past heading to a bottom that I knew always had wild grapes and held some cagey "patridge".

Favorite is a very tough choice!

[Bruce Day]

Native prairie grouse on the northern plains. Sharptails and prairie chickens. These were the birds before the Chinese ringneck pheasants, Hungarian partridge and Asian chukkar. Hunters would come out from the east on the trains, get picked up at the little country stations by farmers and ranchers on their buckboard wagons. They would stay with the farm family and be driven over the prairies, shooting from the wagons or dismounting when birds were found.

Grouse cannot be pen raised and do not tolerant civilization well, except they will fly into alfalfa fields.

Prairie grouse are engraved on the bottom of the G grade Parkers.

Some folks don't like the plains, too much wind, sky and horizon. I'll take it. There are a couple of us below. I'm 64, Charlie is 70. I think we'll keep doing this for a while.

[Les Van Drie]

Ruffed grouse and woodcock with my brittany and Parker. Geese with my 10 bore. Destry, I have a w&c scott bogardus gun club 10 bore that would work good on the canvasbacks!