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"Are you aware that just after the kill you can stand on their spread wings and pull on their feed and they're gutted? If you pull on the feet hard enough all the guts and head pull through. Pretty much all you have to do after that is cut the wings off and you've got a cleaned grouse breast."

I could never defile a trophy game bird in that manner, it's unbecoming. Instead I eviscerate them immediately then hang them over night and prepare them for the table on the morrow.

I hunt a re-blued, pre-war 16 gauge Ithaca Model 37 with an opened barrel on rainy days. Got three flushes yesterday, one visible, an off balance poke while tangled in a dogwood swamp and a parting "Hail Mary" salute brought my percentages back down to earth.



A bird from last year for Gnoahhh.