hunting with roy mukka a childhood friend

were back to mukka again now that sept is here and memories of hunting are on my mind. sometimes we would take to the calumet and hecla track leading to lake linden, then go through peltoniemi's pasture and over bunker hill to the mineral range railroad track. i never did research what train went over the mineral range but that is what we called it, the mineral range. walking down the mineral range, mukka with a twelve gauge and me with a single shot 22 we came to a thorn apple tree growing on the side of the grade. on numerous occasions we flushed a partridge from under the tree, shot at it with the shotgun and missed. now when we came to the tree vicinity roy said he is gonna get it this time. i said how you gonna do that, you missed about 5 times in a row, today will make it 6. he said you watch, i will bag it. so he said stop, he lifted his gun, took aim for under the tree, blasted and the next thing a pat was flapping under the tree and then died. so much for seeing and being sure what you were shooting at. he said the bird was always there in the evening so there was no danger of anything else being under that tree but a bird or nothing. i had to admit his method was effective but not recommended by hunter safety rules. but this came under the rule, do what works.