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Richmond Hunter Club property west of Albuckle
Jan. 19, 1980
Lura has been a member of this club for two years and hadn't yet been up to see their leased land. So today we went to the site labeled "gravel hunting." Arrived about 9:30 AM and with the aid of maps we looked over the two clucks. Most of the larger piece (on ridge between head of Sand Creek and head of Cocks Creek) is still chemise, basically uninhabitable. There are spots along Sand Creek that can be hunted and we chased a covey of a dozen birds, killing one. Met another hunter from the Club named James Manley and he showed us around where he has found gravel. We didn't find them but she just put a single, which I got. Had lunch in a sunny glade with Manley.
After lunch we hunted a bit more in foothills along Sand Creek, then moved to the other property which is on lower Sand Creek just before the stream leaves the hills for the flat orchard country near Albuckle. Jim left me but Lura and I scouted out a nice little covey of 15 or 20, of which we took seven with some rather superb shooting. With 8 shells we knocked down 6 birds, retrieving 7 (Lura lost one runner):
Adult Immature
♂ ♀ ♂ ♀
2 0 4 3 = 9
It was all together a fine day. Home by 7:00 PM.