Recent content by Canadianvizsla

Thanks for the reply. That is excellent info for me. I find my dog has the ability but I think I am not recognizing the signs in time. I was under the false pretense that every bird tracked should end up in a point. I realize by talking to more people and watching you tube that these birds...

Hey guys. You make excellent points. When we came in the mid 90's the habitat was amazing. It was very much like southwestern Ontario. Each farm was about 100 acres with ditches and fence rows in between each farm. There seemed to be small pockets of cover on every 100 acre plot. When we...

Hello Scott county viszla I am from Ontario Canada and have a 4 yr old female viszla . She has no upland game here to practice on except for a small flight of woodcock in the fall. We use a game farm occasionally to try and train her. I was wondering does your viszla get really excited on...

Open Ranger I like the idea of travelling around and using the trailer but I agree it strips away the fun of entering different towns meeting people and trying some local pubs. We have in the past used the dnr pheasant counts to try to center our hunts in the heavier pheasant count areas...

Hi Remy Thx for reply. We were hunting out of Marshalltown area usually north of there. We hit a bunch of public property. We were there second week of november and could tell the properties had been hit a bunch before we were there. We did see signs of birds in the light snow that was...

Open Ranger Thx for the reply. Just to be clear I was not in any way complaining about our trips. We loved every minute we were there. Iowa has some amazing lands to discover and we met some excellent people. That is why we will be coming back. We were supposed to come this year but covid...

Hello locals. I have been reading all the threads for quite some time and enjoy your stories as well as try to learn. I am from Ontario Canada and hunted Iowa as a young man a few times in the 90's. Back then birds were second in abundancy to places to hunt them. Over the past few years as my...