New Millennium Bobs are where you find them, as Stan so aptly pointed out. Pop used to say Bob could not live where he had to "pack a lunch and pull a trailer," so you find them in some hellacious places to be sure. If you want a chance, you have to go in after them.
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1. We don't have the same clawing, clasping stuff I recall from my years in the South, and as Stan describes, but here on the edge of the prairie many things will stick you on the way into the ditch heading to a point. We've pulled long locust thorns out of dog pads many times...and a few out of our own hides.
2. There's a hard earned bird in my hand here, one from a covey that got up in the stuff you see behind me. You can't even swing the gun in a place like this, and generally you just hear the covey get up. It's not unusual to get up multiple coveys on a hunt and never have a chance to shoot on the rise.
3. BUT...we are still lickin' our chops at a chance to go again!
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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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