Hmmm...one of those days? I think when I'm in a shooting funk, it seems like more than a day sometimes. When the Type A personality in me takes over on those days when missing seems a habit, I have what my Pop used call, a "Go to Jesus" moment -- sit myself (mentally) down, and try to let things go. Hard not to dwell on misses, but I'm working on appreciating just getting chances any more.
In the end, you seem to be doing just fine, Harold, and most of us would envy your situation. Good health, great dogs, wonderful guns, and chances to use them...makes missing seem inconsequential.
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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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