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Originally Posted by allen newell
Steve, I grew up in the Greenlodge section of Dedham, Mass. The Neponset meadow was at the end of our street. I could literally walk out the back door and hunt native grouse, flight woodcock and pheasants all day long. Unfortunately, when they put the developments in that ended hunting in our area. God, those were the days tho.
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Same scenario on the North Shore of Massachusetts. In the 50’s and 60’s I could literally walk out my back door and be in prime pheasant habitat with the Rebecca Nurse farm fields of corn and the brooks and marshes bordering my Dad’s blueberry bushes and apple trees. I remember flocks of as many as two dozen pheasants flushing in unison and then walking up the singles for hours.
Gone but not forgotten.
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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