Yeah, I've got a young setter (1st bird dog of my own) here on the couch with me. I'm pretty far up in PA, though I do slip down and hunt WV some, even though the grouse are spotty there and in limited habitat, b/c my parents live in central WV now. I don't get back to the Ohio Valley much anymore. We do still have property in Wetzel and Marion Counties--used to be good bird hunting but now there's hardly any left, between mature timber and WNV. Great deer hunting though. My grandfather raised a long string of setters in Wetzel in the heyday of grouse hunting (when 30 flushes was just a regular day).
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