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Brent, being an Iowan, you'd certainly be interested in a tradition started by a group in Des Moines. Called themselves the Huntmasters. On the glorious 12th, they'd drive rural gravel roads and celebrate by shooting bridge pigeons. No idea whether they're still active. In 27 yrs here, I have never heard of that. Interesting. My grandfather used to shoot barn pigeons up near Jewell, but he was a sporting man, so he shot them with a .22 on the wing.  I've always wanted to shoot some pigeons, but I'm hesitant to eat them. Too many places poison them.
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 They are now Coming South after the "Glorious Twelfth" at Perth Station, I prefer this George Earls painting out of the two it has more dogs. Possibly because it is a painting from my miss spent youth, the original did hang in my local Pub "The Vines" in Lime Street Liverpool. Oh! how I wish to be looking at it again across a smoke filled Lounge Bar with my friends of yesteryear trying to count the lamps after one too many! The painting now hangs in York Railway Museum.
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It's like waiting for Christmas morning. Hard to keep my mind on the things a husband is expected to.  28 days, 1 hour, 4, minutes and 3 seconds SRH This is something I did as a child.. ..In your old age you must be reverting back to being a child. 20 days and counting down here.
One minute you're up the east coast next minute you're "down here".... At this point I hope you know where you really are. Just sAying.
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Larry,
I generally wait until the following week when Woodcock season opens up, as I've gone out on opening day to experience the same issues. It seems when I go out the first day of grouse season I flush nothing but.....you guessed it, woodcock!
Karl Agree that's also a problem. Wish they'd open together. But they've got to work with that woodcock window imposed by the feds. They could open the woodcock season earlier, but they'd then have to close it earlier. And I've seen years up here when there were still doodles around, even in northern WI, after the season closed.
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Brent, being an Iowan, you'd certainly be interested in a tradition started by a group in Des Moines. Called themselves the Huntmasters. On the glorious 12th, they'd drive rural gravel roads and celebrate by shooting bridge pigeons. No idea whether they're still active. In 27 yrs here, I have never heard of that. Interesting. My grandfather used to shoot barn pigeons up near Jewell, but he was a sporting man, so he shot them with a .22 on the wing. I've always wanted to shoot some pigeons, but I'm hesitant to eat them. Too many places poison them. I seem to recall that the Huntmasters were associated with the Des Moines Izaak Walton club.
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Larry I have an island up around Jewel I'd sell ya... It's like waiting for Christmas morning. Hard to keep my mind on the things a husband is expected to. 28 days, 1 hour, 4, minutes and 3 seconds SRH They kood rights a country sOng about that there.... I'm jist sit'n on da back porch polishing up my turd of a fOe tin Yiltz'e shOOt'z gun just count'n the minutes n saconds till yonder dove season... Wife's in the kitcken kooking up some frozen dOve turd pie....
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They are now Coming South after the "Glorious Twelfth" at Perth Station, I prefer this George Earls painting out of the two it has more dogs... Looking at the painting, I believe I can see both Walsingham and Ripon in addition to the dogs. What about you?...Geo
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 Thought I had better post its sibling painting "Going North King's Cross Station". Walsingham & Ripon are just off frame to the right.
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I was late to the assembly. Missplaced my sonic screwdriver while working on the Tardis. 
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20 days and counting down here.
One minute you're up the east coast next minute you're "down here".... At this point I hope you know where you really are. Just sAying. [/quote] jOe, Im not surprised you can no longer figure up from down. Ill make it easy for you. Even or level. There. I live in the KY/OH area with small local parcels of land for Dove in both states. I go back East to the Eastern Shore every three weeks to deal with holdings back there and to visit a friend under Hospice care. If you draw a line East to West, where I live to my house back there is almost exactly parallel to the Mason Dixie line the Maryland - Pennsylvania part not the Maryland - Delaware north South leg. So when I go back East I am level with where I live here.
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