Recent content by birddude

You northlanders are crazy! :LOL:

I've been very fortunate hunting turkeys. I did some bragging last year when we discussed turkey hunting, so I'll save you guys that bluster. There are numerous ways to hunt them, and I've tried most of them except hunting from a blind. But the thought is looking better, especially in the rain...

Indiana in March is always crazy but dammm. It was 73 when I went to bed. We had the door open listening to the storm coming in. Woke up to 32 and spitting snow 20 mph winds. I'm staying in today.

Sounds like the beginning of a joke. Then the duck looks at the rooster and says?? Anyone want to fill in the blank? Anyway, I've never been in pheasant land in the spring, but I always imagined that the rooster travels around fighting and fornicating (probably like goose used to) as I've never...

That's a great story Bob. Worthy of publication. Great picture also. Looking in those old eyes makes me puddle up. Reminds me of something I once read that stuck to me. Two old friends and bird hunters were reaching the end when one died. At the funeral, one of the deceased guy's daughters who...

Dang it.:confused:

I don't know where you guys are, but it must be in the south. I don't think they've even started breeding here yet. I've heard 2 gobbles. Season starts 3rd Wednesday of April, and they are usually henned up then.

Typical. Treating the symptom and not the cause.

I bought my 1st and last box of P.S. last year. I patterned them and was not impressed. My grandson shot them all in K.S. It looked like they performed fine, but I was shooting Estate 1/4 of 6's and didn't see any difference. The Estates are pretty dirty, but I am by no means to good to shoot them.

I knew Hemingway was a soak, but I had no idea Ruark was. I was once in the cabin where Hemingway offed his self while in a drunken stooper. Sun valley Idaho.

Well, Looks like they quit making the ISIDE basic. :mad:

Cool, it looks to me like you have a pretty good grasp on things. It took me years to get the grasp you already have. I was probably 15 years in before I realized that patience, training and exposer makes a much better dog than the borderline abuse that the old-timers had preached to me.

You might not mess up your pup but it sure can mess up your hunt! I'm kind of kidding but if you don't expect too much from your pup, you won't be disappointed. I've been very pleased with 6-month-old dogs and very displeased with two-year-olds. One setter never hunted a lick until he was 4...

It may be plausible that the chokes didn't have anything to do with it. I remember when screw in chokes became a thing. I would see guys on the firing line at the trap club have a bad round or two. Then head for the truck to change chokes. I've heard guys say their x choke is no good without...

The theory that always made the best scents to me is that pheasants can only reproduce in areas where there were thousands of years of prairie grass. Leaving some compound in the soil that they need to fully form the eggshells. There is a few thousand acers 50 miles north of me that the old...