You guys have fun with all this talk about "Bog suckers"--I never shot many woodcock back in my grouse hunting days (mid to late 1970's mainly) as my English Setter would refuse to pick up and retrieve to my hand those long billed stinky birds- she a was a lady indeed, and her good taste in ignoring them while dead and dying in the October leaves spoke volumes to me- she would point the little buggers like a champ, just as tightly as she would the bobwhites we had in MI back then--but would zip right past a dead 'doodle' on the ground- it that were a grouse or a pheasant- Bingo--
So- screw the woodcocks- I'm waiting for Spring and the wood
-chucks instead. Nothing like a one shot kill in an April alfalfa pasture at 250 yards with your .220 Swift 'Chuck-Croaker'--nice sight picture, breath held, gentle pressure on the Timney trigger under your right index finger- and the view in the glass of the Leupold of a fat porky "pasture Piggy" being vaporized by a Hornady moly-coated 50 grainer at 4755 fps-sorta makes me think of old "Deacon" Andy griffith- "Aunt bea, you shore know how to make a man's day"-- Yassir!!
