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Originally Posted by Gomer Snerd

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When I saw you had posted I knew it would be off the wall. I really wasn't tbinking about A/C. Once again, you got me Gomer.
Merry Christmas partner !

Growing up, we had good rabbits and good quail on the family farm. Now it is an important event if we see either. Course when I was young, we seldom if ever saw turkeys on the place. See them all the time now. And coyotes. And pigs. Did I mention the pigs?

I am afraid it is going to be hard to find any good rabbit hunting anywhere near the delta.....

The bunnies seem to be making a come back around my place. The coyotes weren't so bad after a few met their untimely demise. It's the dang stray cats that do the most damage to the rabbit and quail population around here.

The biggest threat to rabbits and quail is the bulldozer. No cover no wildlife

Fireants here are prolly the worst culprit, very few country gardens any more either, was always a covey of quail around the garden spot or the small corn fields grown for grain for the horses in the winter. Times have changed, not so much for the good either as far as spending time together walking watching a dog work. I miss the annual Thanksgiving bird hunts we as a family made, up early for breakfast and off to find a covey or 2 before coming in for lunch. In those days quail season opened on Thanksgiving day and we ate a big lunch and then cleaned birds. Miss those days, never "hunted" single birds back then just hunted coveys. In later years we had to start hunting the singles because it just wasnt enuff coveys. IMO the small time farmer being gone is more to blame for it, we had a big garden, a corn field (who knows what a "down row" is?), and grew our own oats for feed too. The quail and turkey and everything else in the small game world had plenty of food and cover. These days are gonna, uncle still "snakes" logs with Belgin horses but most of us use machinery to do chores now, at least the ones of us that do some chores. Ah, for the simple life.
Merry Christmas guys and gals, thanks for the thread , brought back some memories.

Yep, to go along with Rees Guides post, I still say one of the biggest downfalls with todays youth was when they quit square bailing hay. That was WORK!!!!

Originally Posted by Speck

Yep, to go along with Rees Guides post, I still say one of the biggest downfalls with todays youth was when they quit square bailing hay. That was WORK!!!!

Man that was as much fun as banging your finger with a hammer!!!!!!!!
Only days my brother EVER studied in school was one year we were hauling Bermuda grass square bails and he couldnt come home from college to help cause he had a big test, I was pissed. Moma drove the trucka nd me and my uncle loaded and unloaded over 1200 bails in 2 days!!!!!! I looked like a smerf after the end of the first day, never had had my own NEW overalls, all mine had been hand me downs. got me a brand new pair and wore em to the hay field without washing them, was BLUE from the waste down when I got hame, bout never wore that crap off!!!!!!!!!