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Originally Posted by Bill Murphy
No squirrel hunting in our family in Hazleton, PA in the early 1900s. Granddad shot grouse and live pigeons until pheasants came to town in the real early 1900s. Dad was a dedicated pheasant hunter until I started shooting Southern Pennsylvania quail in the sixties. Dad wouldn't waste a shell on a quail, even though they were numerous and lightly hunted. Southern Pennsylvania hunters were "pheasants only".
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Bill, your account reminds me of some of Rutledge’s stories when he was at Mercerberg (pardon, if I misspell).
I look at old quail population maps and can only wonder.
BTW, these are great posts. Keep ‘em coming.