A follow up on the frozen quail is not good. Mild temps earlier this week found me out on the gamelands. Hunted a brace of setters to no avail. I found a total of 24 quail carcasses, some out in the open, others in the brush. I did find a fresh roost site, but it was quite small, probably from only a few birds. The dogs did have a find but the birds were deep in an impenetrable brush pile as big as my house, there was no flushing those birds and had already decided not to shoot. I contacted the local Quail Forever guy and let him know of my findings. 12 degrees and 5 inches of snow New Year Eve will probably do in the rest.
This is the gun I shot on my hunt before the blizzard, a WW Greener 12 ga sidelever, shooting light 7/8 loads.
My NYE present from my wife, she had forgot to give it to me at Christmas.
I'm a grouse guy, but I really like the quail plate.
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"How kind it is that most of us will never know when we have fired our last shot"--Nash Buckingham
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