"Tall Grass" 30 to 160 ac of 3 to 6 foot blue stem CRP in rolling terrain. A clipped bird is a lost bird. Jump lots of roosters mostly past 50 yards, shoot your best, (with high dollar loads) and still put darn few birds in the game bag. Fortunatly this last season or two the quail numbers were great and we do retrieve most of the little birds, however they can run and hide like a rooster (two took to rabbit holes after being shot this season). The deaf, 15 YO Britt had maybe his best season of his life and added a new "feature" uncontrolled drooling from where he lost a tooth and once (in the long grass) he found the second of a pair of DRT roosters and ate about a third of it.
What ya gonna do? Deaf, never did smell too good, mostly crazy, drools and now pretty much is his own boss. We will miss him, I suppose.
