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"Them chickens" certainly have an attitude. A raucously cackling cock junglefowl erupting out of the undergrowth, charging you on the full is the most fearsome thing in the jungle. Men staunch to tiger have required a change of trousers after being charged by "them chickens".

Geo, Mike A

These things are extremely wary wherever hunted and even where they aren't with an uncanny ability to disappear even when being so gaudily clad. It would be interesting to know how they behave in the less affluent parts of Fitzgerald,GA. and Key West. Incidentally they are a lot better than "chicken" on the table, being a very white meat. They compare very favourably with a partridge (as in hun) which is easily my favourite bird meat closely rivalled by snipe.

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They certainly are a flying flytier's dream.

Dave Katt

I shoot them in the jungles and tea estates north-east of the Bay of Bengal. my apologies for not being more specific.

All the best

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Nice little hammergun and a beautiful cockbird. Thanks for sharing.

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That is a beautiful bird and gun. And I have to add your usage, about "men staunch to tiger", to my notebook of excellent turns of phrase. Thanks for joining the site and please share more of your Indian experiences - always nice to hear and learn.

On to roosters - a friend of mine had a flock of hens with a bantam to keep them in line. One snowy winter night, a fisher broke into the henhouse. The rooster went out, but he went out a hero and that fisher paid very dearly for his meal. Left a blood trail and never came back.


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Fishers are very tough customers; I've seen one back a couple of coyotes off a deer carcase it was excavating. Apparently in February in upstate NYS they become very "open minded" about what they're willing to eat!

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On this morning I had a chance to get out for a bit to check out a WMA close by the office that looked good but I've never been out there before.

About an hour out Jaeger (my GSP)slid to a stop from a full run and slammed a gorgeous point at some brush. I went over and kicked around for a bit but nothing flushed. Miraculously, against all odds Jaeger held steady for me to do this. Since nothing was flushing for me, and it was kind of thick I sent in the wunderhund to flush it out. He dives in, knub wagging, frantically rooting around for about 10 seconds then jumps back, trots over to me and drops this at my feet.
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On one hand, he did have a good enough nose to smell a mouse at a nearly full run. On the other hand....it's a mouse!

I know it's not a snazzy pic with grouse or woodcock piled up but it's a reminder that you don't have to be over serious to have fun in the woods with your best buddy and it always makes me smile.

He was sooo proud of himself. That's my little prodigy! lol

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Guess it is time for me to post a couple here. Here is some evidence of where I got this double gun disease --

My Father and Curley with Grandpa's 1890-vintage Parker Bros. PH-Grade the fall of 1932 at King Lake, Minnesota --



My Father with his 1896-vintage Remington AE-Grade and Rusty in Columbia County, Washington, in 1972 --



There were a lot of birds then. Rusty wasn't that much of a dog. A lady friend of ours found him half starved and near froze to death in Grant County, Washington, spent a bundle on nursing him back to health and he spent most of his time sleeping on a white brocade sofa in her livingroom.

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Thanks for5 sharing
Are the live mallards, calling ducks (live decoys)?

http://edecoy.org/livedecoy.html

Mike

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I think that is a Roan duck (domestic). They look similar to a malard but are much larger and the white ring on the neck is thinner.

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Yes. From the family stories I've heard that was the last year live decoys were legal. My Father and Uncles always referred to them as Dad's English call ducks.

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Skeeterbd,

Great looking bird and Manton. A Manton was Patrick O'Brian's character Lucky Jack Aubrey's shotgun of choice.

Researcher, that's a wonderful family photo and a pile o'ducks. What's the Roan's name--Benedict Arnold?? wink
Gil

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