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Wow, What a welcome.
It sure takes the sting out of now being unemployed and a legal alien (I always thought they lived on Mars). I might try squareing up the map of the USA so beginning here, head west when feet get wet head north, when nuts fall off from the cold head east, when feet get wet get on big bird AHHHH. And hunt in between. Heady days for an old fart like me. Martin
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Martin, go to a Barnes and Noble book store and pick up a bird watching book with upland birds and their habitats. I have a Sibley's Guide to Birds by David Allen Sibley. It lists all the North American upland birds and where their habitats are.
You could hunt Gamble's, Montezuma and Scaled Quail in Arizona and New Mexico, Chukar in Nevada, Blue & Sage Grouse in Wyoming. and Hungarian Partridge, Sharp-Tail Grouse and Pheasants in the Dakotas. If you continue East, you can chase Ruffed Grouse and Woodcock in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
And you'll see some pretty country along the way and be pleased that gas is only $3.80 a gallon here versus Euro 1.80 back in Kemnathan, or about $9 a gallon when converted to USD and Gallons!
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AAAGGGHHHH,
I have a huge book in Germany of all the quail species but have not looked at it for a few years.
By best pal who died 2 years ago went out west on a 10 day deer hunt from Detroit in the 80s and came back to his wife 6 weeks later. Its shaping up that way for me now.
Thanks
Martin
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Awesome, post pics of your adventure!
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... By best pal who died 2 years ago went out west on a 10 day deer hunt from Detroit in the 80s and came back to his wife 6 weeks later. Its shaping up that way for me now.... And this is a bad thing why, exactly? Other than the dying part, of course.
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I tried to rent a one way car in El Paso and the price they wanted was too high so I will have to plan my trip starting and finishing there.
I am in Las Cruces tonight as tomorrow & Sunday there is a big gun show. I will try to sell some of the Zeiss & Hensoldt scopes that I took with me (I have got to cover the trip somehow).
Drool drool.
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Martin
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Well the gun show was awfull in Las Cruces so as I have rented a new Toyota I will be heading north up to the Canadian border just for the hell of it and Scotty I really will try to pass through Minot, North Dakota.
Then I will come back down to El Paso for the flight home so it should take a couple of weeks in total.
Any varmints up there?
Best wishes
Martin
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Martin, unlike Bayern, we have Coyotes, some wolves, fox, rabbit, a few mountain lion, and lots ob upland birds. I think you can take US Hwy 83 from Abilene, Texas all the way to Minot, ND. Stop in the Flint Hills of Kansas for some Pheasant hunting. Then try the NE corner of Nebraska, and of course, the Pheasant Triangle in southeast South Dakota. Jamestown/Devil's Lake North Dakota is in the Goose/Duck flyway, and then you can get to Minot. I went out this evening with the Ziegenhahn but no luck. Saw 5 Hun Partidge. My dog Casey enjoyed it though.
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Scotty, Just finished a Los Alomos museum visit (I worked on the airbase in Roswell where Tibbits was stationed after ww2) am going north past Denver as I need to find 2.5 inch shells first, I will call in at the Trinidad gunsmithing school tomorrow to introduce myself.
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I gave Brig Gen Tibbits a tour of my B-52 in the late 1990s and got his autograph. From Denver you could work North to Cheyenne, WY, then you're only 12 hrs from Minot.
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