The usual group of suspects went out for a shoot in Sully Co on Saturday. I would say that twelve shooters shot twenty birds, not working very hard to do so. Its more of a family event like a holiday than it is hunting. We mix the two well in SD. I shot three birds. I was about as proud of my Lola on the first one as I could be. She worked him up out of nothing, put him up right and I grassed him to her satisfaction. She took him on a victory lap even. I didn't correct her.

On Sunday we went over to Harrold and eight of us shot six. We started at 515 and quit at sundown. The crops round there are just not harvested enough yet to fill our CRP with feathers. Hopeful for things to come yet this year. The harvest is in full motion and in a couple weeks things will get really good. I shot zero, never even pulled up on a bird.


"Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin.'"