I found a comfortable spot by a small creek this morning & was sitting enjoying the little birds singing & flying from tree to tree...
Heard some turks a ways off... in a few minutes a dozen were running right toward me. Stood behind an enormous cottonwood & when I could hear one shuffling through the dry leaves, I leaned around the tree to see a big hen like 15 paces away.
I seldom miss at that range!
Put the gold bead under her chin & got a good clean kill. Very little flopping around - no pellets in the breast. The others wasted no time beating feet & I didn't shoot. I prefer good, clean kills. Tomorrow it goes in the crock pot!
Please pass the gravy!!!
I was going to take a camera but thought it would get too dirty & thus the pic in my back yard. Baby bloodhound will be a great hunter. I cut a wing off for her & she killed it- growled & shook it to death! It was funny!
And that was how I dressed for the occasion = bibs & my Carhartt duck coat. We don' need no steenkin' $500 worth of Cabelas camo or a 4" 8 ga magnum. Used my lucky Rem 1100 2 3/4" chamber 12 ga.
"Closer is better!"
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