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I'll have a chuckle with my gloom-n-doom, please...
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Actually quail ALWAYS make me chuckle. Even when I walk 10 miles and then miss--what's NOT funny about miniature wild chickens outwitting a PhD? Make a good cartoon.
(Note, bird dogs are NOT amused by the above scenario--they hide their eyes and wonder WHY they work for this guy....).
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Mike,
As you're probably aware-hunting around Lewiston, the darn little "miniature wild chickens" hardly ever seem to get away from flushing over the wild blackberry brambles, leaving the hunter no choice, but not to shoot, leaving the non-PHD's outsmarted as well!
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I always wondered if Elmer Fudd was really Elmer PhD. And who made his blunderbuss; I need one.
My favorite Lewiston-area moment was hunting a little "downstream" in the Snake River breaks just inside WA. I was busily missing a bunch of "California" quail in some berry vines and wild roses and then by golly, I hit one (or it had a stroke laughing...). While trying to help my dog retrieve it from the stickers, I saw a sharpshinned hawk zoom in, knock another quail out of the air, then sit on it on the ground and dare me to shoot. While I was trying to find the safety among the stickers, he zoomed away with the snack down the canyon. Ma Nature apparently does the REAL higher education!
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Briars and Bobwhite. I can't ever seem to have one without the other. Hunters and dogs often look like they've been in a brawl after a "successful" hunt.
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I resemble very closely the description you give Mike, on your success rate while quail shooting, er, quail hunting!
I dropped one last year that fell into the brambles. The dogs being smarter than I, kind of sniffed around the patch and continued on with my brother and friend. Being an ethical hunter, and hitting one, being a very rare occasion, I waded into the bramble patch-didn't make it too far, before I realized I wasn't going to be too successful in the search. I looked like I'd gotten ahold of pis...ed off tom cat, so yea WJL, I can certainly relate to the brawl aspect, but I don't quite understand the "successful" part yet!
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