Recent content by gps4

i started at 3-4 days a season. then 5-10 days when I could make two trips. Last season, I was able to make 3 trips, and was able to get 13 days in

my question is how do the agencies know the harvest numbers for their estimates? who reports the numbers to the dept? is it voluntary reports simlary to the HIP data for waterfowl?

where do the harvest numbers come from? is this voluntary reporting on end of season surveys?

where are the harvest numbers coming from?

the last couple years, the mitchell motel 6 had a cleaning counter and sink back by the dumpster. At night, it is dark, and can be a bit blustery. On more than one occasion, I have laid out a camp tarp and cleaned a mess of birds in the warmth of my hotel room, after which i bagged up the...

a buddy of mine just had a litter of GSP pups, and it appears we may have a small pack with us when we hit the road this fall. When we were in SD last year, we noticed all kinds of what appeard to be homemade dog box trailers while riding around time and back roads. if you built your own dog...

I'm at the point in my life that if I am hunting with a couple of buddies, I don't care who shoots how may birds toward our limit. if its 2, 3, or 4 of us walking public land, i would not expect my buddy who may have hit three already to pass up a flushed bird within his range and out of...

Always an internet warden…. My group from MS had 6 guys. One of the 6 was “seeing a man about a horse” when the picture was taken. 2 of our hosts also hunted with us. 6 guys made it home to MS with 54. Our hosts kept theirs…

Here’s Day #1

I just returned from SE SD after a 3 day hunt.. Snow was ankle to knee deep in the food plots and cattails, and shelter belts. Grass fields were largely snowed over with knee to thigh high drifts on the edges. It was foggy and chilly the first two days, and clear and "warm" the last day. The...

i leave wednesday afternoon from MS to hunt thurs, fri, sat and sun. i've been watching the forecast and hope it holds out.

the most snow I have ever hunted in was approx 1-2" and it was easy walking generally speaking, at what depth does it become more trouble than it is worth to hunt? is hunting in 6-8 inches still doable, or is it a waste of time? thank!

https://www.windy.com/-Snow-depth-snowcover?snowcover,42.793,-98.696,8,m:eRdadqD I found what i was looking for....

there was a link to an interactive snow depth map in one of the threads earlier this week. I cant find the thread. does anyone remember which one it was or have the link to the map? Thanks!

I'm from MS and I see many grasses growing in SD fields that I do not know the names for. Some grasses are light, but curly bladed, shin-to-knee high and easy to walk through; some are over head high, bright yellow/gold with puffy heads (not the corndog looking heads) on them, some are about...