With the snowfall today, the other students and I are are very excited! We may have the opportunity to go ptarmigan hunting with some local folks. Ptarmigans have been described to us as the stupidest birds but provide the most entertainment and sport for hunting. Apparently they taste like quail when you get them and provide a good meal. They usually group together in small flocks and eat away. If you miss, shoot low, and a bullet bounces toward them they just stare at it for a moment and then go back to eating. If you aim properly and shoot them and they fall down, the others around them just stare at their fallen comrade and then go back to eating. If you are unlucky and shoot one that does not drop, the birds will fly about 10 yards from that spot and resume eating. So it sums up to easy pickings, and are a blast and fun, cheap entertainment.
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