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			I heard, and then flushed, a lone male Bob the other day while pretending to dove hunt.  He was "bob whiting" to beat the band.  It's the latest I've every heard an unpaired male call.  I think we are in for a poor season after last year's ice and snow.
		 
				__________________"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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