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    Pheasant Hunting

    Thanks guys for expiring me! They say you only get one great dog in your lifetime and in my case that is true. Having owned over a dozen hunting dogs in my life there is none that could hold a dog biscuit to my ole yellow Lab, “Cove.” He is our once-in-a-lifetime dog. Named after my...
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    What choke is in your gun?

    I love your idea of a 1/2 oz of TSS if you are reloading. Maybe a duplex of lead and tungsten. Yeah, you are right you would not want to eat the bird killed with #9 shot Tungsten. I've heard turkey hunters use the comparison between lead and tungsten at 60 yds is like getting hit with a wiffle...
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    What choke is in your gun?

    Chokes and pellet size are important but the alloy of your pellets makes a huge difference on long shots. The reason steel shot stinks is it loses it's energy fast after 30 yards no matter how fast they say it is on the box. The pellets are just too light. Lead is great out to 40 then drops off...
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    Scouting for Pheasant

    Yeah... truth be told it is a rare case when noticing a landmark really works but studying the videos helps to show you the kind of cover the birds are flushing from. Earlier today I watched Eric Forrester YouTube on grouse hunting in Montana 2022 the video already this season. He never mentions...
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    Scouting for Pheasant

    Can I hunt with you if I wear a blindfold? it couldn't hurt my shooting percentages. It could help.
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    Scouting for Pheasant

    Absolutely...I pause and freeze frame any YouTube hunting videos in places I plan to hunt. That stuff can be gold. Look for road signs or an structures that stantout in the background.
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    Scouting for Pheasant

    Like turkey hunting, you can scout with your ears. Be at a high vantage point in the area you think you might hunt at first light. Many of the roosters will cackle as they leave their roosting field and fly to food. It is best on a clear, calm morning. But it must be at first light. Get there...
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    Lots of hens - no roosters

    In watching the video that Golden Hour posted a few days ago you see a segment that his lab points a small clump of cattails His lab flushes a hen that was sitting very tight. As the hen flushes and the lab reacts to the hen the dog literally steps on a big rooster that was buried even deeper in...
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    Footage Late Season Colorado Pheasant Hunt

    Good video. Major kudos for showing your misses. That is an honest late season video hunt. Good job. It's hard enough to hunt late season roosters but then add that wind and you're uphill all the way. Hunting in wind blows! It's super important to be as quiet as possible on these late season...
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    SD late season public ground?

    As far as knocking on doors Ive learned, never mention I'm from NY state without adding the Upstate New York and hope that maybe the landowner has visited the area and knows. Upstate NY is a completely different planet than NYC. So they tell me, as I've never been to the NYC and have no interest...
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    SD late season public ground?

    Thanks men...as soon as I dig out of the 18" of snow I got here in Upstate New York. (for the record close to Lake Ontario. Nowhere near the NYC) I will head west. I'm sure they are as spooky as a whitetail on the last day of gun season. Thanks again
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    SD late season public ground?

    If the driving weather permits, I think I will motor about 20 hours and go look for some late season SD roosters. I know asking you to post pheasants hunting spots in SD is like asking you to post your S.S. # on the dark web and believe me I understand. So what I'm asking is maybe a decent...
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    Full gun cleaning

    As, a waterfowler and upland bird hunter I've been cleaning finicky auto's for more than half a century. Other than the usual cleaning, once or twice a year I give my trigger assembly a bath. I have found a ton of unburnt powder drops down into the trigger assembly after just ta few hunts...
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    Oklahoma pheasants

    Thanks, guys. I had these visions of 50 degrees and sunny unpressured pheasant hunting in Oklahoma in January, but I guess I was just dreaming. Maybe I better look further north into Kansas or Nebraska. I hunted SW Nebraska late season a few years back and didn't find many birds and when I did...
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    Oklahoma pheasants

    That wild hair is tinkling again. I'm thinking of making a late season Oklahoma pheasant hunt flyer. Their website says the PanHandle is the best pheasant hunting. Anybody out there with some pheasant hunting experience in that state?
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