I can't wait to get back to Manitoba for ruffed, sharps, and spruce all in the same habitat. Sure wish they would start a woodcock season. Here I have broods of pheasants in my yard, garden, road ditches, cropfields and pastures, but the dummies can wait till I can hunt them in the snow. Seven days till doves open though and my old Sauer Model 8 will be smokin' Plenty of local sharps and gray partridge here, and the ponds are loaded with young ducks.