Recent content by matto

HuntFishSD is really the Aberdeen chamber of commerce. Amy was very helpful on the phone and followed up with the email below. I hope she's correct. >> Hello Matt, I’m pleased to confirm that South Dakota Game, Fish, and Parks will indeed be mailing out the 2025 Pheasant Hunting Packet, which...

Yes, you can request one. I did that maybe two weeks ago. But per my phone call with the SDGFP yesterday, they won't actually send it. I think I'm going to request one and some other random publication every day for a while. I'll call HuntFishSD. Hopefully they'll send me one. Since I'm in...

Call me a dinosaur if you want... When I'm hunting I prefer to have both a paper atlas and OnX going. Paper for big-picture stuff and notes and the OnX screen only showing a few square miles. Anyway, I used the SDGF website's tool for requesting publication to request this year's atlas. That...

I'll be out the 20th or 21st. I'm hoping for some reasonable temps that weekend and the dogs are getting their feet sprayed with tuf-foot every day. They're not excited about that, but they love chicken hunting.

Yes it is. "The survey period was from April 25 through May 15, 2025." Also, "The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP) collects breeding population data for pheasant(Phasianus colchicus) by conducting crow counts throughout the pheasant range in the state." The crow counts and also...

You're right there with the numbers in and around Wichita for the year. That doesn't happen often.

The water will be way too high on my spot. But, maybe there's been enough rain for some sheet water in the wheat stubble.

I knew that at least one person on here used something like that. I don't. However, the dogs get a thorough eye inspection after every day afield. It seems like there is always something to remove--a small seed, a piece of grass, etc. They probably could have gotten the stuff out by...

I'm surprised there's nothing yet from Datus Proper's Pheasants of the Mind. I've read it, I loved it, and I own a copy, but it's been years. Now I'm going to dig it out.

Conditions in Kansas were decent, but it would take several years of that for Kansas to approach SD. Last year SD had more birds than the parts of Kansas I hunt, even with last year's floods in SD. I didn't think the parts of SD I hunt had floods this year.

I have several sizeable green spaces I use for running the dogs. One is a golf course built on 160 acres. In the summer I'm out there almost every weekday morning. I walk or run, and the dogs are off leash. I do this when it's light enough for me to keep track of them but there are no...

I've had 3 Suburbans or Yukon XLs. IMO, the best one for bird hunting was the last one with the removable 3rd row. I think that was like 2015. Oh Well. My kids are out of the house now so I downsized to a 23 Tahoe Z71, purchased new in November of 22. Going into it I had the same thoughts...

Finally figured out a use for this product, but only for folks who often switch back and forth between lead-ok and non-tox-only areas. Vests are too expensive to have two. Much cheaper to just have a "lead hat" and a "steel/bismuth hat". Just grab the right hat from the dash and go hunt! :)

Details on this one? I'm out of town the weekend of 6/28-29. If I'm in town I'd be interested.

my fault. sorry