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Make sure you use your spell check when you draft this book,-- "actualy", "Psysacalogical", biuld, higth," all might need another look-see- Cheerio and Pip Pip!!

Unfortunately I was having computer problem this morning ,would have ment shutting down and having to re type everything .Its Sunday and I having a lazy day .

Gunman, Don't sweat the little stuff. This is a tough crowd. I got roasted here once for using 'ping' rather than 'peen'. I, for one, value your opinions way above many of the contributors here!

Once again for the laptop buffoons living in a gray twilight of their own imagination. Courtesy of TR.
Blow 'em off gunman.

The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic-the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.
Citizenship in a Republic - a speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, France (23 April 1910)

To quote Abraham Lincoln:

You can shoot all of the clays some of the time, and some of the pheasants all of the time, but you cannot shoot all of the Ruffed Grouse all of the time.

I believe the speech this is taken from was about proper shotgun fit

Gunman, good input, none of us type perfectly. I know I don�t. Typo�s or not your post is valid

I further agree with the Krakow Kid, that Ruffed Grouse are not always available. Oddly enough, my record on them is over 70% hit and taken (over four heavy years of hunting) and on Pheasant I am still running about 50%. I can't explain it save rushing the shot makes me better than having too much time.

Wow. I don't think there are many people who shoot a better percentage on ruffs than on pheasants.

I was younger in my ruff years, but wild pheasant have been a challenge for me (probably all in my head), where wild quail these days have been a pleasure and remain above 70%. Preserve birds are so easy I think I keep record on them only to make myself feel competent, where wild pheasant leave me humble.

Every year I practice the pheasant shots on the clays course and look great only to humbled all over again. I only get about 4 to 6 days of wild pheasant every year compared to 20-30 days a year on quail

Note my percentages are based on birds engaged and retrieved which include a large number of two shots to bag one bird engagements. On ruffs I almost always put two shells into the bird to be sure. On quail more often than not I shot at only one bird on a covey rise. Sometimes I take no shot at all if it is a small rise

Foxy! YOU tellin' somebody to use spellcheck? Oh, the humanity...

Kudos to you, Colonel! I genuinely take my hat off to you, that is truly an accomplishment.

And, like you, I bemoan the small numbers of these feathered rockets now in our woods.