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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 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...

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...

About 12:50 the day after christmas, my 3 yr old female lab was sleeping soundly on an ottoman in our living room, when all of a sudden, she woke up, jumped to the floor, starting spinning like something was biting her on the haunches, tried to run across the room dragging her rear end, then...

I got a Lee load all 2 and reloading components for Christmas this year. I have several hundred once fired federal 20 ga hulls and twice as many 12ga fiocchi hulls and even more Winchester 12ga hulls 25# of no. 4 lead shot 25# of no. 5 lead shot 200 fed209a primers 2,000 Cheddite 209...

in the off season I came across a few articles about dry aging pheasants before cleaning them. as I understand it, to dry age, you leave the bird fully intact for several days in cool/cold temps. My buddy and I were up recently and caught the weather just right where the temps stayed below 50...

3 buddies and I have been planning to make a quick trip to SE SD the last weekend of January. We started making plans in November in the hopes that the weather would cooperate. Given the recent snowfall last week, I expect our host will break the bad news any day now that everything is snowed...

Three buddies and I have been planning a late season trip to the farmers place we hunt near Mitchel the last weekend of the season. From my computer in Vicksburg, MS , my internet research indicates the SE corner got hammered with a ton of snow. I'm afraid the usual places I go (south of Huron...

I drove from vburg, Ms to north Sioux City Thursday en route to Mitchell for an extended trip that has me solo with my two year old lab until Thursday night. I hunted between Yankton and Mitchell Friday, and between mitchell and chamberlain today. I dont catch up with the rest of my group...

a buddy of mine usually heads up a trip from MS to SD for a 3 day hunt in November. This year, he lined it up with the farmer in the spring, but had to back out on account of his boss getting the COVID a couple weeks before the trip. the rest of us decided to go anyway and i brought my 1yo lab...

When I came up to SD in November, I saw signs about a scheduled I-29 closure northbound north of Council Bluffs. I’m considering a last minute trip next weekend coming from Vicksburg, MS. Is I-29 currently closed anywhere between Missouri and Sioux Falls? Thanks I’m advance.

I will be leaving Vicksburg, MS on 11/6 and hope to arrive in SD on 11/7. I will have my 12 month old lab with me and plan to bounce around public walk-in areas in east SD until we have to head back south on 11/15. I'm in the process of making vehicle and gear preparations. So far, I plan to...

I'm from Mississippi and plan to make a trip or two this fall to SD. I plan to arrive on a Monday and explore the public walk-in opportunities for a few days then hunt private property with an outfitter at the end of the week. Given the current state of ammo availability, I expect I will need to...

how common is it for SD hotels/motels to let dogs in the rooms? I'm planning a free lance pheasant trip this fall in east SD and want to find dog friendly accommodations. any particular motels/hotels i should check out? Thanks in advance.

I've got a 14 wk old lab and ready to start working her with live birds. I live in Mississippi and we do not have very many opportunities to put dogs on wild birds. I was hoping to get pigeons to begin training with, but haven't had any luck with my pigeon traps. This past weekend I picked...

We getting my kids a lab puppy for Christmas. I’d like to train her to hunt pheasant if at all possible. I live in ms and plan to make an annual trip or two to the upper Midwest once the kids are out of high school. I don’t have many upland bird opportunities here locally, but would like to...

last year was my first pheasant hunting experience. on our way up to SD from MS, i watched several videos on the most efficient way to dress a pheasant, which seemed to be, stand on the wings and firmly pull on the feet, and the feathers/skin, legs, head and entrails would pull right out of the...

I hope to get a puppy in the next year or two and would like to train it myself. I live in MS and our wild quail population is in the dumps. I hope to continue our annual pheasant hunting trips to SD and possibly expand to Kansas and Nebraska. My goal is to have a family pet that is proficient...

This fall will be my buddy's 3rd and my 2nd annual trip to SD for pheasants. We would like to make this an annual tradition, and to commemorate each year, I'd like to get a patch with the year and bird, perhaps on a SD shaped patch. The plan is to affix the patch to our jacket/vest. Does...