Phil, Thanks for taking the time to write this down to share with us. Do you by chance have a photo from that day?
Reading over these responses reminds me of just how much more hunting is than taking game. Too bad non-hunters — and especially anti-hunters — don’t (or won’t try to) understand this.
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"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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