I thank everyone for your replies / advice. Retiring is not easy, especially as I don't work 9 to 5 every day. Just yesterday I gave up to some importuning and agreed to defer my retirement from 9/1 to 12/31.

Right now, I live about 4 miles from my hunting club, Amwell Valley Conservancy (put and take pheasant, chukar & huns on about 1400 owned acres)(not cheap, though), and usually hunt by myself with hardly anyone else nearby. Here in PRNJ there are essentially no wild upland birds (except during migration), and I don't count Canadas, which we have up the ying-yang, as wild.

I'll keep you all informed.

Rob

NRA Benefactor Member