Recent content by GladHunter

I've run into the same thing, just like a rope. Easy enough to pull it them in closer, pretty hard to push them out further though.

I have used Axil GSX 2's for deer hunting and was satisfied, not impressed but satisfied. Even at low settings I could hear each exhale and I wasn't puffing, then i put them through the washing machine🤦‍♂️. Axil replaced them since I had gotten the extended warranty but I think I got a refurb...

My pointing lab has mixed success, not his fault I haven't put in the work in the offseason to teach that the point is the goal. If he air scents a bird he is much more likely to point, if he's ground scenting/trailing he doesn't stop until the bird goes up. The only wild birds he's really seen...

With the online research I've done and one phone call with someone from the G&F Dept. I can say section lines are open to travel, including vehicles. Not exactly what you were asking but related...

Not everywhere can grow grass like that Iowa soil can. I just got back from a trip through the Flint Hills, he might be able to see his dogs at 1000yds. My setter will get out there 3-400yds going after prairie grouse. Not that far for pheasant though, he checks in too much to get that far out...

Thanks to you guys, I get comments like "Iowa, the potato place right?" Do you ever get an comments about corn?

Welcome to UPH! As for you questions this lowlander can't answer those.

Thanks for your report!

I've been planning a trip to ND next month for Sharpies and Huns with Pheasants as a bonus. Their reports aren't great and I'm considering visiting SD instead. I know the prairie bird seasons opened this last weekend but I haven't seen any hunter reports. Can anyone help me out?

I've never hunted that region, but those numbers seem way higher than what I've heard from that area. But it's better than where I'm at.

Iowa has a handy public hunting viewer Iowa Hunting Atlas. Or if you have OnX it shows the same information and property ownership. Iowa does an annual roadside survey and the numbers look pretty good this year.

Y'all are making me feel better. I put 12 miles in the sandhills near Valentine this weekend, saw 5 got 1. The biologist I spoke to said they aren't seeing many juveniles, she speculated no bugs at hatch.

I have aged my pheasants the last couple years and not being a connoisseur myself I cant say I can tell a difference, but not having to clean birds after getting back from a hunt is very freeing. I'll be travelling to ND next month and I'm hoping to have a mixed bag, Does anyone know if you can...

Thanks for the report! I need to get my boys out for some scouting. Down here south of Des Moines the harvest is started, albeit slowly.

The cover around Valentine was great. Only saw 5 Sharpies in about 12 miles this weekend. I'm not certain that the numbers are that low, I'm still figuring things out.