Recent content by wildcat

"your good friends know your hunting stories and your really good friends were there with you!"

i will switch guns around thanksgiving when i hit my shooting slump. i think this is due to changing my layering system due colder weather. then I keep shooting until I get my "mojo" back none of my guns are custom made and all have about same LOP. There may be some difference in drop or...

never be embarrassed about taking your dog hunting! do be embarrassed about missing "slow birds"

some more thoughts on my drive back and forth to the farm thought they would go well here disclaimer-- some of these may not be true -If you’re just here to shoot birds, I really don’t want to hunt with you -The last day of the season is just as important as the first day of the season -the...

Having enough allows you to be easily generous! (although, i do know some very generous people with limited resources) But, you have enough because you husbanded your resources. Pheasants and pheasant ground are a limited resource that need to be actively managed Often, appreciation is payment...

Why was it a good season in SE South Dakota? Because there were a lot of birds Why were there a lot of birds? Because they had a great hatch Why did they have a great hatch? Here’s a sequence of events that I believe led to a great season of the most birds I’ve seen since the start of early...

I found the best way to regulate my temp was a buff/ neck gator. Thin cheap stretchable and made of polyester. Stretchable allows it to be lifted and cover your ears when wearing a hat. Lift it off your neck when you are hot. Face mask for mouth and nose if real cold. Wet it if too hot. I...

a few more thought on the drive back as per one of my posts up top ---i fell into the "crazies category this weekend-- hunted at -10 degrees windchill -If I hit everything I shot at I’d quit hunting -When your hands get numb, they stop hurting -Close flush still makes my heart stop -You have...

a few more thoughts on the drive home today -copper plating — washing (cosmetic )versus electrolysis (better)--check it out -You better kill your first pheasant dead because if you have to look for a runner, you’ll stir them all up. -When you get excited or startled, that’s when you miss -Don’t...

if there are more pheasants, ( and there are this year) you see more flushes Many of those will be or appear wild. configuration of the property also makes a difference--more or less pinch points also determined by what gim said above I also think a large group gets skittish easily and develop...

some more thought on the drive home tonight after hunting -`An east wind makes everything act goofy -All birds are spooky in January, even if they have not been hunted -Private land birds next to a public area act like public land birds -Take a experienced, safe, poor shooting friend with a...

this is a continuation of what I posted at end of last year most of these came on the drive home from the field feel free to add or disagree -Plant some trees -Predator control works in a concentrated area -Hawks kill more pheasants than coyotes. (Not sure) -Cheap shells maim more pheasants...

i agree completely loosing focus is easy when not much is happening intermittently mounting your gun or following any bird may help i also found I shoot better with a stocking hat vs a cap i think the bill on a cap can make you lift your head off the stock so you can see better sometimes...

my experience cattle in the feed lot/close to home and near but not in shelter belts help pheasants alot cattle in corn stalks really do ruin any marginal cover that was present such as small water ways i have shot very few pheasants where cattle had been run i do not let my renters run cattle...

time for an rant today i was hunting a piece of property i have my truck was parked in a low spot a suburban slowly drives down the gravel road and obviously see a pheasant in my mowed ditch they get out and obviously don't see me they start walking into the filed and i yell "Hey" so i don't get...