more Parkers or more birds ?

[SXS OHIO]

Its a sad state of affairs in general....loss of the wild birds that is. I belong to RG/woodcock, PF and support them. They are doing great things for habitat and working with land owners and government, the farm bill that just past is proof. THANK YOU ALL THAT DO THE REAL WORK. I grew up hunting wild roosters and cottontails, the bob white were gone by 1970 here in north east Ohio and the roosters slowly followed. Now even rabbits are hard to find at times! I am a bird hunter, I get my fix on the wild ones but have to travel long days and spend hard saved money from season to season. Even that plan gets messed up by weather like the drought in Kansas that lasted for 3 to 4 years, now west nile is taking the grouse. But I still go in search of wild birds. I'm happy with less, long as we see some birds, get a few shots and if lucky collect a trophy rooster, quail or grouse. They are trophy's….In 2012 we hunted good land in Kansas for 6 full days, three guys and three good dogs to get 6 wild roosters and 3 quail. I got two roosters and a quail and yes they were trophies to me! A 12 point would not make me as happy! Roosters may be down in Kansas this year. I called out there last week and the farmer tells me the hens are on their 4th nesting due to all the rain and the chicks are the size of quail. Its a late hatch and the haying has started...)-: I will go and I will be happy if I get one of them trophy roosters and a couple little gray bullets. If there are any grouse left in the U.P. one of them too! Life is GOOD! SXS Ohio