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Dalhart - A long ways from Houston, 700 miles or more.
A 12 hour drive as fast as you can drive.
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The tallest tree in the countryside is a cedar fence
post.
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Large coffee to go is $ .65; full breakfast is $2.50.
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People leave their keys in the car's ignition because
it's easier to find the car than the keys.
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Opening weekend of pheasant season: you can hunt
within two miles of town and flushes will be within twenty yards.
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After opening weekend the birds smarten up real
quick.
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Slamming a truck door can flush any bird within 70
yards.
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Once flushed a pheasant will fly half a mile before
landing.
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Fat, old guys have a hard time walking in milo fields
and corn stubble.
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The more hunters in a line, the more blockers, the
more dogs, the more birds killed.
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Problem - the birds killed are joint efforts with
several hunters claiming the kill.
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No one admits missing.
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To make a kill that no one else can share, the shooter
should be extremely quick and accurate.
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Wild Bill Hickok shot and killed his deputy, a good
friend, in a gun fight in Abilene because he shot without clear target
recognition.
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In Texas only roosters may be legally shot.
Sometimes "deputies" get shot in the field.
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The more dogs in the field the more yelling and
whistling going on.
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The guides' dogs can be as hard-headed as any weekend
bird dog.
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A person hunting blue, scaled quail for the first time
should never be allowed to hunt on foot.
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Blue quail, if in fact they exist, live where no one
in his right mind would hunt.
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Footprints the outfitter showed me as evidence that
blue quail exist, fall in the same category as crop circles and
sasquatch tracks.
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The covey that my brittany, Freckles, flushed at 300
yards, which I saw from a hilltop, probably will be recorded as just
one more Lockness type sighting.
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I saw birds of some sort, but couldn't identify them.
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Labs love to chase jackrabbits.
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Jackrabbits can outrun a pack of labs while tuning in
its Walkman.
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Jackrabbits are weird looking. Here's an animal with
disproportionate ears, a lift kit on the front end and a low rider on
the rear end.
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The distance from Dalhart to Houston is as long in
both directions...
