FrenchBrie
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I had hunted SD 3 times in the past but thought I would try ND for a week this year. Hunted in the Belfield-Dickinson area. I do individual hunting with a pointing dog, really don't care for 5 or more guys abreast drive hunting. We usually do a lot of road hunting in SD.
Most of the good things you read about ND in this kind of forum are true--less hunting pressure than in SD, less traffic on back roads, birds are plentiful. The only real drawback is that the right of way is generally closed to hunting unless you can hunt legally on adjoining property, I presume that means a Walk In Area (called PLOTS in ND).
However, ND has one big advantage I have never seen before in SD or Kansas--the Walk In Areas actually have birds on them after opening week.
The people have been exceptionally nice to deal with here although they are nice in SD too.
A couple of negatives are that there is a resident opener a week in advance of the nonresident opener and that the grass here tends to be shorter than in SD and that makes it that much tougher to sneak up on roosters who have been shot at for two weeks now. The roosters are very spooky and flush wild. When my dog gets a good point on a bird holding it is almost always a hen.
Most of the good things you read about ND in this kind of forum are true--less hunting pressure than in SD, less traffic on back roads, birds are plentiful. The only real drawback is that the right of way is generally closed to hunting unless you can hunt legally on adjoining property, I presume that means a Walk In Area (called PLOTS in ND).
However, ND has one big advantage I have never seen before in SD or Kansas--the Walk In Areas actually have birds on them after opening week.
The people have been exceptionally nice to deal with here although they are nice in SD too.
A couple of negatives are that there is a resident opener a week in advance of the nonresident opener and that the grass here tends to be shorter than in SD and that makes it that much tougher to sneak up on roosters who have been shot at for two weeks now. The roosters are very spooky and flush wild. When my dog gets a good point on a bird holding it is almost always a hen.