Ed, I didn't even read your whole post because of all the jib jab, BUT I GUESS THAT YOU DIDN'T READ MINE. I SAID THAT PENNSYLVANIA WAS IN THE TOP TEN IN PHEASANT HARVEST. Until you can prove me wrong, which you can't, stick to Parkers.
I'm not a writer and not as well read, supposidly like you, but I state facts, so prove me wrong.
JDW: Simply read your own original post that I took issue with. You prove yourself wrong. As an aside to my rather long post on various pheasant hunting items, I corrected your wrong original statement, which follows verbatim:
JDW posted: "Here in PA, at one time in the area where I live now, WAS PROBABLY THE PHEASANT CAPITAL EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI, back in the mid-70s and 80s."
I said that PA was never the "pheasant capital" east of the Mississippi, or anywhere else.
JDW responded that EDM's taking issue with his erroneous and problematical statement (a statement prefaced by "probably") was "ridicule." (JDW should learn the difference between being corrected when making an over-broad statement prefaced by "probably," and ridicule. EDM may correct but never ridicules, although precise correction often leaves no place to squirm.)
JDW went on to say: "ED, I don't make this stuff up
like some of you writers do." Thus it is made personal, as if persons skilled at writing non-fiction must be novelists in disguise.
JDW continued by shifting gears and equivocating--changing his original statement--as if anyone couldn't refresh one's own memory by simply scrolling up about 5 or 6 recent posts. Thus spake JDW:
"At a time back in the mid-1970s
I believe, there was a list of the top ten...and PA was one of the top ten."
EDM agreed that "PA was one of the top ten" of the five or seven states where pheasants are found in numbers east of the Mississippi. Thus JDW's exaggeration was modified and made more plausable by his friend and editor EDM...however...
JDW couldn't let a sleeping dog lie: Said he, "...not being a writer and not as well read,
supposedly like [EDM]..." But this is no excuse for not being able to read the plain unambiguous words that JDW himself posted (which started this much-adoo-about nuttin').
In summary, there is a quantum difference between PA being THE PHEASANT CAPITAL as originally stated and ONE OF THE TOP TEN (of 5 or 7) that is now JDW's claim. Having run this around the post the few people who care about such things can probably agree that without Pennsylvania we wouldn't have a Keystone State, and if they had named it Transylvania as once suggested, Count Dracula would really be confused--you know, Mongolian pheasants versus Hungarian partridges. Further EDM sayeth naught.
