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10-26-2024, 06:16 PM | #13 | ||||||
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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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10-26-2024, 08:44 PM | #14 | ||||||
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A few years ago I was spring turkey hunting here in NH on Boy Scout reservation land when a grouse started to follow me down a toat road. That bird followed me for a half a mile making cooing noises all the way. Really weird.
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Daniel Webster once said ""Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoemakers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but in the mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men." |
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