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Originally Posted by Dean Romig
Second morning was a disappointment with only 4 grouse flushes... again, out of trees.
Grace slammed into a classic point on the Scrubapple Hillside and I walked around a big scrubapple and in toward her. Up gous a woodcock and was immediately screened behind foliage. It appeared for 1 second before it tucked up in behind a spruce top. That’s when I fired at where it should have been and I didn’t see it come out the other side so Gracie and I searched for a good while and never even found abfeather... and I thought grouse were the only game birds that could do that...
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Ok, for a Southern boy who's been transplanted to the remnant prairies of North Missouri, what is a Scrubapple? A hawthorne? Crabapple? Abandoned orchard apple tree? Whatever, it sounds like it makes for a nice place to follow a bird dog.
Keep those pictures and reports coming!
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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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