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<blockquote data-quote="Kentuckywindage" data-source="post: 2701932" data-attributes="member: 119330"><p>Our population of wild birds was on the decline when I sold my last dog. Making pen raised birds a great option for training. Wild birds after training were then the only birds hunted. When I left the sport, I would surmise in an average 3 give or take mile walking, you may find one grouse. A covey of quail was usually birds I had bought and turned into the wild. I turned a large number loose around here. Hunters sometimes lucked up on them. What really bothered me was the run down of the covey and killing of most of it. I found out, if you take one bird, it was just as good as every bird in the covey. Days I couldn't find a grouse anywhere, I would swing by where I had turned birds loose and end that day with a bird to my dog who had worked hard. 20 to 25 years ago I would ask all my deer hunting buddies where they had flushed a grouse and got some great hollers to hunt. Today deer hunting isn't as popular here but even asking and deer hunting myself grouse and quail are few and very far between. With Kentucky wanting the wild turkey population, scratching out grouse nest and clearing large hillsides didn't help. Coyotes and raising rattlesnake populations, (to help control turkey population? ) didn't help either but we were already on a steep decline. Going to Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Resources meetings only to find out our Corp of Engineers were trapping grouse to trade for river otters on state property? In short involve yourself in your areas wildlife commissions. </p><p> Those who haven't run a good gun dog and watched him work up to a beautiful 1 o'clock tail, staunch on point and flushed a thunder bird, (grouse) bursting through the thickets and timber with you trying to get a clean shot are missing something very special. Some of the best eating I've experienced in my years.</p><p>To those of you still able to enjoy this, take all the working and pointing beauty in. Next time you and your dog do everything right, think of this old crippled up Kentuckian and how much I envy you at that moment. </p><p>God bless and Happy New Year!</p><p><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🙏🏻" title="Folded hands: light skin tone :pray_tone1:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f64f-1f3fb.png" data-shortname=":pray_tone1:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🙏🏻" title="Folded hands: light skin tone :pray_tone1:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f64f-1f3fb.png" data-shortname=":pray_tone1:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🙏🏻" title="Folded hands: light skin tone :pray_tone1:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f64f-1f3fb.png" data-shortname=":pray_tone1:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kentuckywindage, post: 2701932, member: 119330"] Our population of wild birds was on the decline when I sold my last dog. Making pen raised birds a great option for training. Wild birds after training were then the only birds hunted. When I left the sport, I would surmise in an average 3 give or take mile walking, you may find one grouse. A covey of quail was usually birds I had bought and turned into the wild. I turned a large number loose around here. Hunters sometimes lucked up on them. What really bothered me was the run down of the covey and killing of most of it. I found out, if you take one bird, it was just as good as every bird in the covey. Days I couldn't find a grouse anywhere, I would swing by where I had turned birds loose and end that day with a bird to my dog who had worked hard. 20 to 25 years ago I would ask all my deer hunting buddies where they had flushed a grouse and got some great hollers to hunt. Today deer hunting isn't as popular here but even asking and deer hunting myself grouse and quail are few and very far between. With Kentucky wanting the wild turkey population, scratching out grouse nest and clearing large hillsides didn't help. Coyotes and raising rattlesnake populations, (to help control turkey population? ) didn't help either but we were already on a steep decline. Going to Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Resources meetings only to find out our Corp of Engineers were trapping grouse to trade for river otters on state property? In short involve yourself in your areas wildlife commissions. Those who haven't run a good gun dog and watched him work up to a beautiful 1 o'clock tail, staunch on point and flushed a thunder bird, (grouse) bursting through the thickets and timber with you trying to get a clean shot are missing something very special. Some of the best eating I've experienced in my years. To those of you still able to enjoy this, take all the working and pointing beauty in. Next time you and your dog do everything right, think of this old crippled up Kentuckian and how much I envy you at that moment. God bless and Happy New Year! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 [/QUOTE]
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