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Outdoor Life

Brickbat

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9. Grouse are good hunting and good eating. They cycle, and for some reason the good years mean

Reply to Eleanors38 (Reply #8)

Thu Aug 20, 2015, 09:44 AM

Aug 2015

fewer birds around our place, and lean years mean lots of birds at our place. Not sure why. If we don't get out after them we can almost always count on one flying into a window at the house and offering itself up for the table.

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"Summer time and the ammo's expensive." [View all] Eleanors38 Aug 2015 OP

What happened to hunting season sales tax free weekend? Hangingon Aug 2015 #1

Oh, it's still around, but a case is in the 60s instead of the 40s, now. Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #2

Southern zone opens a month from tomorrow for dove. Hangingon Aug 2015 #3

I deer hunt a mile from the Uvalde Co. line near Campwood (Real Co.)... Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #5

Apples started dropping today so it's time to walk the trails and see where they can do their best Brickbat Aug 2015 #4

Ha! You must live north of Texas, if you have apples. We watch for acorn crops... Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #6

Yep, northern Minnesota. I wish we had some oaks, but it's all spruce, pine and birch here. Brickbat Aug 2015 #7

Never hunted grouse. I have hunted woodcock and snipe, which occurred in... Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #8

Grouse are good hunting and good eating. They cycle, and for some reason the good years mean Brickbat Aug 2015 #9

HA! The glass frontier. Dove will do that, too. I've bagged a couple that way in Austin. Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #10

I reintroduced Bobwhite Quail onto my 40 acres three years ago oneshooter Aug 2015 #11

Those people who abandon their pets are singularly intractible Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #12