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You know dOgs are smarter than most people they don't generally do things for no reason.

Smells that are offensive to us are often time not offensive to them...just take the smell of a skunk I don't want it directly on me...but it doesn't really bother me too much.

I often wondered if the bird dog rolled in cow patties because of a skin condition that it helped or maybe it helped his hAir.

eYe bet that's what it is with you...you likes to rub it in your long hAir'a.

Ever saw a hunting dog roll on the ground where a dead carcass was ?

I recall, once, quite a few pheasant seasons ago, when there were 5 of us, my neighbor and his two teen-agers (both passing the hunter safety courses MI requires today) and my neighbor's doctor- we had 3 large farms connected by fencerows- all of that area ours to hunt--and my Lab Dixie, and my neighbor's Lab Lady- great october Sat- little cloudy, slight breeze.

Five hunters, all legal, limit of 2 roosters daily-- equals 10 birds total for the day--

Long story short-- The doctor shot 6 birds, before any of us could get in range-- When I asked him about stopping after the first clean kill- and letting Steve's boys get a crack at their first rooster pheasant-- he brushed me off- saying some akin to: "Hell, they'll get plenty of chances when they get older-- I carried my gun unloaded for the rest of that long-long day afield-- Never invited him to hunt with us again.

The late Paul. A. Curtis said it best: "The field is the touchstone of the man".. RWTF

William Tecumseh Sherman set the mold for later villains in wartime: Hitler, Himmler, Stalin, Tojo, Chairman Mao-- No war has any degree of civility in its battle plan-- The "War of Northern Aggression" left scars upon our land, whether North of South of the Mason-Dixon line, that still exist today-- RWTF

I would not place more than you can afford to loose on that bet Frankie b0y.....the one that smells foul is you sunshine.

I noticed King's post a few pages back, before this thread turned into a cat-callin' contest. I think I agree to some extent that wing shooting is an affection. It, in my mind, is the difference between an outdoorsman and a sportsman.

If I'm just after meat I know a better way to get it than wingshooting. Back in the day Stan's grandfather made his "big shoot", there were countrymen who needed and used the birds they killed. They were probably better outdoorsmen than we'll ever be.

To my mind the sportsman of that time and the sporting ethic of the time which we honor today (even if often in the breach) was a city thing. My grandfather lived through the same depression the countrymen did but he was a town living druggist and his personal bird hunting ethic was probably guided by the sporting literature of the day rather than the need to acquire supper...Geo

If you were after meat, you wouldn't waste shotgun shells on quail at all. You would trap them. Of course, that is not legal today, and it suffices to say what meat is only a byproduct of modern hunting, not the sole motivation for it.

Sounds much like the "War of Southern Stupidity". Let's not go there either.

Take your well reasoned and gentlemanly post out of here, Geo. Us rednecks are ground sluicing birds and fighting the Civil War.



Vox populi, vox humbug.


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I can make this march, and I will make Georgia howl. William Tecumseh Sherman

We finally agree on something.

You will get over it.