Met a gent in the MN Northwoods this past season— 78 and going hard. Go while you can, as often as you can. The trout don’t rise in Greenwood Cemetery, nor do the quail flush. 
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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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