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3 sprige
8 quipe
1 cote pheasant
Smison
Nov 19, 1971
This is India weekend at the House of Commons.
Betty came up until me Fri. evening, and this morning
we went to no.5 double (I was last choice). He
spent a quiet morning, watching the action at other
blends. Several times big "coils" of sprige would start
tumbling into our pond - sometimes many hundreds
of birds coming in at once. One time nobody shot and
a good many hundred came down before a shot was
fired. They came out on no.5, pretty high actually,
but Betty and I got three of them. I doubled or coiled
and Betty nailed a nice 8at hen. That was our
only score. Betty shot a few times at teal, redgeon and
dove without getting anything.
After lunch I went sprige hunting in north end y
Grand Jeme, there being virtually no birds in our
south end (after the big concentration we had last
Wednesday). Birds were scattered - I walked long and
hard, and couldn't hit them when they did fly up,
but I finally captured a limit. Also gunned a nice
big pheasant code that was added to the trophy
basket.
We had a fine turkey banquet in the evening, joined
by the Juranos and Walgs. Allen and Harder had good
sprig shots this day in blend 2ad 6, with Woody
and Dennis respectively.