Owning and running dogs gets more expensive each year, and that’s where savvy budget cuts make sense. (Photo By: Katherine Inwards/Shutterstock.com)
If you want to talk with someone about the high costs associated with gun dogs and bird hunting, then the late Robert Woodruff would have been your guy. Woodruff, the former owner and president of Coca-Cola, was a hardcore bird hunter and dog man who owned and expanded his Ichauway Plantation to become nearly 30,000 acres of wild quail, quail, and more quail. That expansion began in the 1930s and didn’t come cheap.
But Woodruff was meticulous, and he maintained detailed records off all hunts and activities. One question eluded him; how much did it cost him to bag a wild quail? Hmm, interesting, and with that Woodruff assembled his team of accountants and set about...