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Originally Posted by Stephen Hodges
We have a fall season here in NH but I have never been interested to shoot hens or half grown poults. I suppose some toms are taken but I think the hen flocks are more susceptible to the hunting tactic. That does not mean that I care if others fall hunt, I think if that is what you like and it is legal enjoy it and bring home some fine eating.
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I’ve taken my share of Tom’s in the Fall, mostly by stalking (they don’t respond well to calls in the Fall), but busting a flock with young birds and calling them up in the beautiful Fall woods is grand sport… and the eating is much better.
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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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