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Originally Posted by Daniel Carter
A ground shot from the window of a truck gets you 6 oz's of meat. A pointer trained and worked by you self, and a bird shot on the wing gives you 6oz's of meat and the satisfaction of the dog's work, a shot well made and a trophy of a memory.
Please do not tell me it is a dirt poor man trying to feed his family. He burns enough gas to buy 10 lbs of chicken and if he is so poor how did he afford that $50,000 pickup. He is a lazy man who will not play fair if he can cheat.George Evans refers to them as a common avicide.
Sorry if i offend some here but my son had to pick pellets out of his leg from a road hunter who sped off when hollered at him after he shot out the window at a grouse our setter had pointed. He wanted that bird so badly he never saw the white setter 15 feet away or the 2 orange vested hunters behind the dog
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That's a whole 'nother topic Daniel. Shooting from a vehicle is entirely illegal and unethical.
But it is the common man's way of grouse hunting in that back country of Maine and several other states. It's the way it's always been done there. It's tradition...
My very first grouse hunt in my Vermont was with my mentor, grandfather figure and the Fire Chief of St. Johnsbury, VT.
He took me out grouse hunting in his Jeep when I was twelve of so.
I wrote about it in Parker Pages many years ago in "A Boy's First Partridge".
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