It's funny to me, out here in the Midwest a full plumage drake pintail is a once every 10 years (maybe) sort of deal. I can count on one hand the ones I've shot in all my gunning. But you get out on the West Coast and they're everywhere. The last one I was in on shooting was banded if you can believe it. My buddy Nate and I doubled up on it and I'd killed a banded mallard drake the day before so he kept it.
DLH
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I was as virtuously given as a gentleman need to be; virtuous enough; swore little; diced not above seven times a week; went to a bawdy-house once in a quarter--of an hour; paid money that I borrowed, three of four times; lived well and in good compass: and now I live out of all order, out of all compass. Falstaff - Henry IV
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