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Those are probably Mike's rabbits.....he claims Joe never hits any quail....just poses with Mike's limit of birds and his dogs. I cannot testify to this as they never invite me on a hunt....I think they don't want any witnesses around to any of their shenanigans.
You live in the middle of prime bobwhite country. You own a farm or two. Those invites can go out as well as come in. A very young Mike and Joe. They've been hunting together a looooong time.  It just seems like a long time. Actually, that picture is of my grandfather and Joe Wood. And Grandpa told me he shot all the rabbits in the picture and let Joe pose with them.
I am glad to be here.
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Much as I love you and Curmudgeon Joe, I ain't crazy enough to let ya'll anywhere near my carefully protected coveys of quail.....I just got 'em back after the devastating drought.
Maybe if ya'll brought single barrel guns and no more than 6 shells each.............
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In the 1st pic , that must be Mike on the right. He appears to be instructing Joe and keeping the tally.
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The way I heard it was that Joe is such a crack shot he only shoots the males on a covey rise. Last non male bird was a transgender Mallard back I his youth.
Now it is true that Mike does a lot of the heavy lifting when the two of them are together but that is just becaus Joe knows Mike needs the exercise to stay in top shape. Nice to have fellows looking out for their friends and students health.
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I'm glad that transgender Mallard was a long time ago. Rumor has it the Texas legislators in Austin(land of the weird) are going to make it a hate crime to harvest them. Not knowing what to look for will not be an acceptable defense.
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I have harvested several hybrid ducks but no transgender ones that I know of. But then again I am not Joe, the most interesting shooter in the world some would say.
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Now that you've brought it up. See below for cross-dressed, possibly transgender male (?) wood duck. Only the duck hunting cognoscenti here will understand...Geo  You saw it here first!
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I shot a mallard-gadwall, mallard-black duck and mallard-pintail hybrids. I have seen several other combinations. Most were with mallards as what I expect were the male part of the mix. It seems Mallards are the lovers of the duck kingdom. Some times early season ducks are not well feathered out into normal winter plumage but hybrids just look wrong overall.
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Hybrid with Mallard drake was my thought as well...Geo
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Mallards and wood ducks are the two most common ducks to cross breed. Figures because they are both numerous. I find it interesting that most hybrids are infertile but about a quarter are not. Guess it depends on how closely related, how much common genetic material the parents have in common. There have been 400 hybrid combinations recorded according to DU so I expect most duck hunters have seen a hybrid but it was so minor a difference it went unnoticed.
Many years ago my late hunting partner came across a Gadwall hen with a broken wing shortly after seasons end. Being a doctor, a bit of an oddball some would say, he decided to amputate the bad wing, flap the surgical site, gave the girl an antibiotic and brought it home to nurse back to health. It ended up living several years on a small pond on his little farm. He said it raised several flocks of chicks which were all crossed with local mallards.
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