A Puppy's First Bird
Our quail season thus far has been very poor. Today we tried a Thanksgiving hunt on a farm close to home. No birds throughout the morning until we had given up and were heading to the truck. Our puppy, Rill, made a point, and I was finally able to shoot a wild Bob for her -- her first. We've hunted on Thanksgiving Day for 40+ years. It's hard to measure a "best" day, but a puppy's first quail is near the top.
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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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