There is quite a difference even among released birds. I’ve been to places where they were put out in the grass fields in boxes the morning of your arrival. You’d have to literally kick them out their box; like shooting a placed pigeon while training a pup. Then there are those released freely in September and you arrive in mid-December — they’ve been on the front lines for two and a half months. They are no longer “pigeons.”
Oh I understand that. But I myself am not traveling to hunt released birds. We call those liberated birds.
