Woodcock observations

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Daniel Carter

Andrew I have found them to be confounding since I started to study them. On migration they will stop in the most unlikely places, if they stay will go to what is ''normal habitat'' They have changed over the years I have hunted them.My covers are less hunted the last few years but I read of the folks in the south discovering them. (Mills) Years ago Evans wrote that they were safe once they passed him,no longer is that true.Very interested to hear of your next hunt. If I remember correctly they are hunted from Sept in Canada till Dec in the south,

Actually, woodcock have been discovered in the South for as long as folks in the South have enjoyed eating them and shooting them for sport.

Here Andy Devine, aka “Jingles P. Jones”, and his wife along with Grits Gresham and a friend enjoy hunting woodcock in Louisiana - Andy using his Parker .410 with the beavertail forend. I'll bet he was good with that little gun. I wonder who has it now??

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