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Another great day in the books with my ol’ girl!

If you travel to a different state, a personalized cutting board or rocks glasses from that state seems to be a good gift, even if it’s not actually used in the field, but used to serve the bounty of your hunt. Dimock Cheese is always a favorite stop for the group I go to SD with. Year...

From Tripp SD

Her first bird of the trip!

Pocket knife Engraved zippo Zippo hand warmers Engraved tobacco pipe Traditional style cap/hat

Suppose you have a quarter section of solid grass field. No treelines, or wind breaks or shelterbelts, or other significant vegetiation or cover transitions. Just one big square field of knee-to-waist-high prairie grass. Section roads along the south and west boundaries. No vehicle access along...

I put mine on a homemade "adventure trailer". I've slept 4 in this tent. I've taken mine on a few fishing trips to arkansas, and a couple of deer hunts, but haven't hauled it on any pheasant hunts yet. I'm okay with staying in dumpy motels for $30-45 per night per person if there's a chance of...

I can see the usefulness of the bells in fields that are so thick with trall grass that the dog literally disappears from sight. My lab is pretty quiet when in the field, and i can see where a flusher may get a bit too far out on those windy days that they may get turned around in the thick...

Vicksburg, Mississippi

Several years ago, I decided instead of joining a local deer camp here in MS I would spend my annual hunting budget making as many road trips as I could to SD. I still deer hunt public land around home and go with friends to their camp when invited, but as long as I’m still able to navigate the...

I’ve done this a few times with a buddy who has pointers and I have a flushing lab. We try to stay abreast of each other, and about 30- 40 yrds apart as we move through a field and follow the dogs. Close enough to hear each other if need be, far enough apart to cover decent ground

i got 30 days until we pack up and heard north.

From the SD Hunting Regulations handbook

ive run into this several times in the last few years with a labrador. no matter what, she seems to always end the day with the top of her nose bright pink and scratched up pretty good. sometimes to the point of bleeding. when i tried to put some ointment on it, it seems like she would lick it...

some buddies and I tried to make a “last weekend of the season” trip to SD in Jan 2023. Unfortunately, the area we were planning to go was snowed under and we had to make a last minute change of destination. A mutual friend of one of our group recommended Upland Inn. UI was able to accommodate...