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Originally Posted by Daniel Carter
Garry thank you for your comment's and photos. We need times like this to truly appreciate those days when everything falls in place. Grouse hunting is made what it is by the maddening unpredictability of them.
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Daniel, I forgot to mention that earlier in our hunt we flushed woodcock out of about 6 inches of snow and after the weather had been below freezing for several days. Tough, resilient birds. Too bad they can't overcome the human disturbances to their lives.
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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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