I’m just happy to have her flash point them after I shoot them. I love woodcock breasts!





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You could not print some, well maybe a lot, of what is written in my journals. I just read some older entries and found it amusing how different memories are from the written account. I guess we remember things the way we prefer rather than what actually happened. An argument for not keeping a journal.

Life goes by so fast, hunts long in coming seem to be over in a blink of an eye. I get more out of my journals than I do on hunts that have been professionally videotaped. Wish my grandfathers had written journals of their hunts. I find a well fed worn out bird dog makes just as good a writing companion as does a mopane fire.

...or an even better one usually.




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The journal I read the other day featured my now oldest setter when he was 8 months old. He had 49 grouse points that year around home and another 13 in New Hampshire. Now 14 years later as I see him asleep in front of the stove I am cementing my memory of this past season and the birds I shot over him. I want to keep those memories forever as they may be the last.