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

Canvasback

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

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!

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.

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

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

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!

Les,

I've got one too, we should get together and shoot them sometime.

Destry

ive got a fa loomis that would work good on them canvas back a red head and the black duck...the three ducks are scarce in my neck of the woods...... charlie

Destry, I read on a thread somewhere that you had one.