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Here are a few, my DD Milo (God rest his sole) ate some of my better ones when he was a puppy.
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04-14-2019, 10:51 PM | #14 | ||||||
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Latest, ringneck duck
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The Sharptail is the first I ever shot in ND over my Lab Tessie. I can still visualize the flush, shot and retriever. The Woodie came from our marsh, a year in which we had hundreds stay right up to a hard freeze. Retrieved by Lab Lucy her first year hunting.
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04-15-2019, 09:16 AM | #16 | ||||||
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My first double on Mearns quail. 2014. His and Hers on a crosser left to right. him first. Taken with "Connie" my 1902 DH 20 bore 28" DT splinter 0 frame (current cover photo with bobwhites). Remember it like it was yesterday!
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04-15-2019, 09:58 AM | #17 | ||||||
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The luckiest shot I ever made on a grouse was this one. I asked Scott Kittredge to mount it for me and he did a really nice job.
Before and after pics. Taken with Rr. Admiral Thomas Perry's 20 gauge 28" Damascus DH. I was hunting with Cam and my brother-in-law, Jamie. Jamie was out of sight in the alders over a rise from me when I heard two shots and a loud 'expletive' and this grouse came up out of the alders with its afterburners on at about 35 - 40 yards and high. I naturally swung on the bird and touched the rear trigger and the bird folded and plummeted. Scott told me there were no pellet holes in the bird but there was a sharp bruise at the base of its skull. A lucky shot to be sure! Just like a little chip off a clay target.... I'll take it! .
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04-15-2019, 08:03 PM | #18 | ||||||
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New Hampshire woods bird, 23 Lbs, before and after
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04-15-2019, 08:50 PM | #19 | ||||||
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Snipe
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04-15-2019, 10:04 PM | #20 | ||||||
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My second favorite bird to hunt. My Dad used to say you have to shoot snipe “between the squawk and the poop”! Those that have not been out shooting this unusual little bird should know that Snipe are truly invisible on the ground...when they flush, they make a little croaky squawky sound and climb straight up, at Apollo V vertical speed, to a height usually about 25’, then shed weight by pooping at the apex, before taking off at millemium falcon hyper-drive speed, changing course about every 3 feet, up, down, left and right...
What a great bird, I think I will get one mounted next season!
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