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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...

How often do you folks hear about people having their kennels (that aren’t bolted down) and dogs stolen (from kennels that aren’t locked) out the back of their pickups? This is one of my biggest concerns when on a trip with a pickup and having a 2nd floor motel room or hotel and struggle with...

did you mount the kennel agianst the cab, or up against the tailgate?

I first introduced my lab to untethered quail at 24wks/6months. I stood in the middle of a hay field and threw 3 quail up in the air (1 at a time) and watched where they landed. Then I went and turned her out of her kennel. I would walk in the general direction of where the birds landed, and she...

This week my spousal unit and I started experimenting with the crockpot to see what’s cheap, easy and will hit the spot for hearty meals after cold windy days. I depart for SD in ten weeks and plan to fine tune the menu between now and then

The closer we get to sept 1, the more the itch grows. I find myself going through the house keeping an eye open for what got strewn about by the end of last season. If I notice something I use in the field or on the trip to the field, I try to grab it and relocate it closer to where all my other...

Who cooks their meals in the motel room or on porch/parking lot outside your room? This year, our road trip lodging will be 5 nights in a single level roadside motor motel. The roof overhangs the 3 or 4 feet the of the front stoop/porch and the trucks can be backed in right in front of the...

PF put out an article suggesting that hunters could harvest 93 percent of pre-hunt rooster numbers without harming the population, and that such a high rate of harvest is very unusual, if not impossible. The article goes on to say that the normal range is 45-65 percent. Adding an average...

i've heard over the years that in areas with high birds density areas, roosters have a tendency to push hens out of premium cover in the winter, and the hens succumbing to exposure to the inhospitable weather? is there any truth to that?

What is the reasoning for letting the younger ones go?

tell me more about the problems you had with the Hatfield.

There’s something about a November sunset on the prairie that asks you to stop and listen—not with your ears, but with your whole self. After a day in the field, boots worn and hands weathered by wind, this is the reward: sky stretched wide in a blaze of orange and violet, clouds layered like...

im curious about the collars strapped in front of the hips. I have 0.00% experience trinaining pointers, but I'm begiing my research for when my lab gets to old to join me. What are the rear collars for? TIA

I'm sure this has been covered ad nauseum in the past, but why do there appear to be substantially more pheasants harvested (and presumably present) in SD than the other plains/prairie states?

T minus 225 days....