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It was the last hour of work on a Friday afternoon, and the sky was clear and the temperature falling. Toward the end of September and early October one never knows what Mother Nature will give you. You can only pray for weather like this and hope the lord has pity on you. The last two MORE


Protected by a myth and hunted by a relative few, the chukar is thriving on vast tracts of public ground, and is available to everyone who will make the effort to hunt him. The chukar partridge (Alectoris Chukar) occupies a range that stretches from Southern California to British Columbia, and east to Utah and Montana. The chukar lives in the land that nobody wanted - rocky, arid, covered with cheet grass and sage brush. Arriving from Asia in MORE

 

Mark Eden

Hunting out of Bosebuck Mountain Camps, Wilsons Mills, Maine, Wednesday, October 22, 1986

I was hunting for ruffed grouse on an old logging road and flushed a grouse and managed to drop it. It was immediately evident as I picked it up that it was unique. I saved extra feathers that had fallen out (used later for DNA testing), and carefully put it in my vest. I later wrapped it well, in preparation for taxidermist Tom Delsignore. MORE


I always start opening day with a bit of trepidation; like shouldering that new shotgun on the first bird; a hit or miss proposition. You never know just what to expect on the first day of bird hunting season. It can be too hot, it’s always too thick, the birds are there and sometimes not. You enter the first cover with the sluggish burden of a ten month wait on your shoulders. You need that first flush to get the blood pumping and the adrenaline to kick in. It might be a woodcock but will most likely be a grouse, probably this years bird, a little naive, maybe even suicidal.
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