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AaronN,
They remind me very much of hunting Hungarian Partridges in the sugar beets before hare and pheasant season opened in Germany. Good memories, wish I could do it again. Your mention of rutabagas reminded me of a story my old scout master told of the time his squad was trapped behind the German lines in the battle of the bulge. They were out of food and came upon a pile of what they thought was rutabagas. He said they couldn't boil them long enough to eat them. After living there, I decided it must have been a pile of "feed beets"(Futter Rueben).
Mike

Same stuff?
Thomas Blinks "In The Field Shooting With English Setters"



Sunflowers and sugar beet flowers

'Summer Woodcock...AB Frost...

https://live.copleyart.com/lots/vie...frost-1851-1928-set-of-shooting-pictures

The picture reminds me of when I was in the service stationed in Germany 1967. I was fortunate enough to meet a German on post who was a fireman, got to be friends with him and found out he liked to hunt also. He invited me to come on a hunt on his father's property and we hunted on large fields of sugar beets. We were hunting Hungarian Partridge and it wasn't easy walking because the turnips were large and stepping on them your foot slipped off. Fun hunting, still brings back memories now of the different hunts I was invited to.

David, In the last half of 1967 I was in Germany briefly between tours in Vietnam. I was down near the Austrian border at Bad Tolz - Lenggries with the 10th Special Forces Group Where were you?

Also, I got in that other drawing and here is a high-res photo of it if anyone would like it:



HQ link: https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-KmDkDgz/0/0f89dd31/O/i-KmDkDgz.jpg


Edit: And a colorized version