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			Well, it looks like there are some more bird hunting, Parker shooting, 16 gauge lovers to add to the group.  
 I like to think that to be a bird hunter today suggests the hunter is an optimist.  We are a dying breed in many respects (certainly an aging group!).
 
 Welcome to you all!
 
				__________________"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
 
 "'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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