I was a perfect 100% on my first dove hunt (OK, it was one-for-one). I got up too early and to the field too early, so I walked to the back end to avoid people. Three guys set up near me and cut off every bird but one. Next year, I'm sleeping in! I guess that's why they call it hunting.
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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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