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Down and back with a 24-row planter is 120 feet. That is how wide the sprayer is, so I think we can alternate next year.

One of my biggest problems is when I have many pheasants but am not able to harvest the corn before the season starts. So this year I am going to plant corn in 48 row strips. The hope is that it will make it possible to get to the birds. I will plant soybeans in the strip in between the corn...

I have had three hunting dogs. The first two had me for a trainer, which means they didn't really have a trainer. The third dog was professionally trained. What a difference that made, he was absolutely a retrieving machine. He found birds in cattails and cornfields. If he saw it go down...

About 20 years ago when I was maybe 55, I bought what I knew was going to be my last dog. I wanted a very good one. I did some research and talked to people that I thought would be helpful, like you are. I bought a very well bred Draht. I paid $1000 dollars for him, and took him ro a trainer...

As a guy who has many miles of barbed wire fences, I have noted that the dogs that grew up here don't get wire cuts. I have seen several dogs that come here get wire cuts. I suspect that growing up and learning about wire early must be the reason for that.

So it is better to steal $90.

The point of the post wasn't how generous I am; it was about how generous the hunters have been. They decided the value of the hunt. Yes, I am blessed and have been all my life. I just finished my 54th year not counting the 10 that I helped my dad as I was growing up. My age will make me quit...

The other morning, I went out to the shop to plug in my tractor so I could feed cows. When I got there, I was greeted by a tire with an antler stuck in it. Fortunately, it was a front tire. I enjoy wildlife so I know this is going to happen, I just wish it wouldn't happen when it is so cold...

Who owns the land?

Don't forget being proud of sneaking a dog into a motel without paying.

Goose, the piece of ground that you want to hunt may not look good during the season but may provide nesting during that season. That is the case here. There is a fair number of acres here that don't have cattle on them until August, that is a fair amount of undisturbed nesting, but we never...

They might want to make a living. Perhaps you would prefer that they start a commercial hunting operation.

Cattle and birds have a wonderful symbiotic relationship. As a rancher-farmer that has a commercial hunting operation, pheasants definitely benefit from my cattle operation.

Can't hunt until 10am in South Dakota.

A little, not much. It has been a good winter so far.