No New Year's Parade in North Missouri...BUT
...we had some fireworks in the form of burnt powder in pursuit of wild Missouri Bobs. After a week of long, bird-less hunts, our spirits were dragging. So, we were desperate to find a covey or two on our traditional New Year's Eve and New Year's Day hunts. On both occasions we hunted hard and thought to again go home without a chance when each dog "pulled a covey out of their hats" that gave us our chance. My Christmas present from Elaine -- an AHE 12 -- made me a better shooter, and we came home with the gifts that are wild birds taken from home covers.
Here's to the new year!
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“Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about.”
― Jim Harrison
"'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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