Originally Posted By: Krakow Kid
I don't mean to start a fight, but it seems to me that you guys out west have it pretty good. With all those open spaces and "Big Sky" country I'll bet you can actually see your bird for more than 2.5 seconds after it flushes.

PLUS I'll bet you're facing the direction it flushes with all your limbs in place.

C'mon to New England for a real special taste of humble pie. That is, once you get the alder leaves and blackthorn's out of your mouth!

Oh, did I forget to mention opening day here in Massachusetts is only 4 WEEKS AWAY!?


That may be true out on the prairie, but in the steep hills where the quail and chukar hide in the far west, it's a given that you'll be standing on one leg, facing the wrong direction and worried more about falling to great bodily harm, when the bird flushes. I intend to have Greg show me how the composed hunter hunts a civilized bird this year.