It's my stepson that is going in the Coast Guard. I was a Marine (combat engineer). I'm the beat up looking fellow on the right. The birds are pen raised, I clean up what the rich guys miss.LOL I guide and trap at a few game farms and they let me clean up the left overs. That's why my labs get good upland training. Plus, I live at the north end of the Delaware Bay where there is plenty of waterfowl to harvest. Need more things you guys would like to see in print. Our deadline to get things together is March 15, 2005. So time is running short. As for the pheasant hens they would rarely get a chance in this area to reproduce. Question: have you every seen a brood of pheasant chicks in NJ. Even with all the stocked birds it's very unlikely. Way to many birds of prey. Which I enjoy video taping and photographing. I go on video a seagull gulpghing down 7 quail chicks one morning. And we wonder why there is none wild. I will be filling out a report to send to the state reporting my findings on the upland birds I've seen.

Till our trails cross,

WW