I agree that would have been something.
Hunting the same pastures You get to know how many birds are in a pasture. Some of the better walk-in pastures I’d say a third of the flock is harvested by hunters over the course of a season and come back as strong the following year. The walkin pastures that are difficult to pattern and the private stuff is rarely touched.
They are a bucket list bird for most that hunt them. One and done and then a new crop of bucketlisters come in the following year. The last couple years I have seen more hunters from out of state. I’m not sure how I feel about that. I think some of that has been what day the opener has fallen during the week.
