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Last day of duck season.....just a few taken jump shooting off the pond with my A grade Fox.

Had to add this one........Son Jared's birthday present to me - a quail hunt.

Taken December 2010 in western Minnesota.

Jay

Mike Bonner and I on a morning duck hunt when he visited the
Wet Coast at Xmas 2011. A mixed bag of mallards and widgeon.
Using an SKB 100 12 gauge.

GLS suggested that I post a picture here and so here I am. I have no photographs to compare with the beautiful ones already posted and which I have just spent hours poring over but the ones below are of my favourite gamebird and my most used gun.





The gun is a hammer (as is obvious) Manton & Co. 20 gauge with 28 inch barrels and 2 1/2 inch chambers nitro proofed for 7/8th ounce of shot and weighs 5 pounds 12 ounces.

The bird is a red junglefowl (Gallus gallus murghi) and is the wild ancestor of all domestic chickens. Yup, he is the king of all chickens!

All the best

Skeeterbd

That is a beautiful "chicken" indeed; but he sure looks a lot like the "Banny" roosters everyone had in their yards when I was growing up in rural Georgia. The one thing I remember that all those little rooster birds seemed to have in common was a bad disposition!

Sometime back in the 1950's the State of Georgia was getting a lot of pressure from outdoorsmen to experiment with stocking pheasants. What the natural resources biologists discovered was that pheasants won't survive or breed in the South. Someone got the bright idea of stocking red jungle fowl like the one pictured above by skeeterbd.

A big bunch of them were planted near the town of Fitzgerald at the state fish hatchery at Bowen's Mill. I think the State of Georgia got snookered into buying tame birds rather than wild stock. They look just like the picture above and unlike tame bantams they all look just about alike.

The birds all seem to have migrated into the town to find someone to feed them. People began feeding them and they're still there. The city of Fitzgerald, GA has a "wild chicken festival" every year to celebrate the colony. The residential streets have chicken nests built on poles to provide the hens with protected places to set their eggs.

The nicer parts of town are full of the birds which wander freely around the homes. There are fewer in the less affluent parts of town near the public housing projects, so I presume they must be pretty good to eat. Probably taste "just like chicken"...Geo

Hatch,lemon hackle?

Skeeterbd, nice looking gun! Where do you hunt these chickens?

Key West Florida had these same birds (along with all the other wild foul it has). Natives hated them; I knew people who had super-power Germanic air rifles just to thin down the birds that lived in their gardens.

I like "chicken music". But I guess Conchs aren't "morning people." Jose Cuervo apparently is no friend of theirs, either.

Red Jungle Fowl are called "Arkansas Travelers" when they are domesticated, I think (any banty experts here?). I've seen the "banty chicken" form back down an 1800# range bull. We had them on our ranch and had to have a rooster rodeo every spring to cut their spurs and keep them from killing each other. Great fun--they can run like a roadrunner and fly like a pheasant. Simpler times.