Just curious...for the record: is a ditch chicken any pheasant or a certain "kind?" (One that has been released for you...a wild one...??) I will admit that with the shenanigans that pheasants engage in here in Missouri, it is the one bird that I don't have regrets when I bring one to bag.
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'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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