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Yep....but Bella is an all-around dog; last week when I shot a meat doe (think sausage)in the wheat field, she ran around it barking, then grabbed it by the ear and tried to drag it....wouldn't win any field trial points, but won my heart. One good dog, one good shotgun, and one good woman in every man's life....still looking for the shotgun; gave up on the fairer sex.
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Amen Brother Bella is one FINE companion!  Thanks for sharing She likes me best 
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Gary, I've told you time 'n again to quit pot shooting 'em on the water. Course you've got a good point about saving ammunition.
When an old man dies a library burns to the ground. (Old African proverb)
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But Joe; you get such a great impression of your shotgun pattern on water....didn't you tell me that?
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Tolerance: the abolition of absolutes
Consistency is the currency of credibility
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Oh, and some of the guns employed: 
Tolerance: the abolition of absolutes
Consistency is the currency of credibility
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I closed my duck season out with three days back in my old stomping grounds in the L'Anguille River bottoms in Arkansas last week. This was the first morning. Limits of mallards by 7:20 A.M., along with a few "scrap ducks". Me and my old trusty BSS 3" gun, using RIO Blue Steel #4s. In yo' face shooting in the green timber over dekes. Had to shoot a couple in the head and neck, like a turkey, they were so close. Second morning five of us had five full limits by 9:15 A.M., including a hen and a drake black ducks. Third morning was slow, only killed nine before we left.  SRH
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Stan, that looks like great sport! Nothing like green timber shooting in the delta.
16 you boys collected some 1st class eating with those sandhills. We have no season on them here in GA but I've shot lots of'em up in Sask. We call the breasts "flying tenderloin".
Do you ever get the big white ones out there. They'll often close whole areas to crane shooting in Sask. when the whoopers come through...Geo
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Stan, that looks like great sport! Nothing like green timber shooting in the delta.
16 you boys collected some 1st class eating with those sandhills. We have no season on them here in GA but I've shot lots of'em up in Sask. We call the breasts "flying tenderloin".
Do you ever get the big white ones out there. They'll often close whole areas to crane shooting in Sask. when the whoopers come through...Geo I'll second Geo.'s comments Stan. Being from the Canadian prairies, I have never done the flooded timber shooting. Sure looks like fun. And of course our season is much shorter due to temps dropping. Rarely do we get into November before freeze up in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. I've seen the whooping cranes just twice. Not surprising as the numbers in the wild got as low as 20 or so. I think they are up around 500 now, so not too plentiful but great to see.
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Sorry for the tardy response but, yes, I definitely could live with sub-zero weather for most of one month with a 5 month bird season.
By the way, while noting that the winters in North Dakota, as well as many western states, get God Almighty cold, please don't think we bask in tropical weather during the winter in New England along the Connecticut River. I am no stranger to sub-zero weather. We get our dose here, and this past autumn and winter have dealt out more than a taste.
Please don't read any animosity in my post. There is NONE. Just envy.
I'm just mighty jealous of ALL the states that have longer hunting seasons than ours. It's just ridiculous to limit a bird season to 6 weeks, dontcha think?
Well, a possible answer is open to me. I guess I should start by getting a Vermont license. I believe their season is 3 months. A good friend of mine recently bought a 10 acre farm in the Northeast kingdom so now I'd even have a place to crash.
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