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Originally posted by CCJPO

Mr Hoffman,

Thank you for your recipe, it sounds great. I think I may try that. Although I will bake it on the grill while the other birds are being bbq’d.

We plucked the birds and then waxed them. I like the skin.

We can only shoot cocks in Nevada as well.

What kind of dog/dogs doyou have? As odd as it may sound, my good dog is a Great Dane bitch, she has a very soft mouth, and is good with hand signs. My other, older dog is a semi-intelligent Irish Setter, she is great on point and flush, has a sort of soft mouth, but sometimes forgets for a while where I am.

How is the deer hunting this year? Is Ohio still shotgun only? Before I lived in Nevada I had a place in the Amish country near New Philly, smack dab in the midlle of 1800 acres of corn fields.Great huntimg, great eating. In Nevada we use rifles, and the meat tastes like sagebrush. I hunt with a 30.06, my buck this year was from about 100 yards, I have friends that laugh at me because that is the longest kill I have ever had. They shoot from up to 600yards. I am not that good of a shot.

CCJPO

Thanks again for the recipe.

You’re welcome. I hope you enjoy it. I have a Chesapeake Bay retriever that I use mostly on upland game — pheasants, grouse, woodcock, and doves, too, although she hates having to mouth a dove. I don’t hunt waterfowl more than eight or ten times a year. Until I got this bitch in 1997 I’d had yellow Labradors for years.

It’s shotguns with slugs or muzzleloaders firing a single ball, as well as handguns, for deer during the gun season here. I usually hunt with a handgun. Last year I used a .50 caliber Smith & Wesson. This year I’m going to be using S&W’s new .460-caliber revolver. Our one-week gun season doesn’t open till the Monday after Thanksgiving. Our archery season opened Oct. 2 and runs through Jan. 31. I’ve killed two does so far.