Recent content by McFarmer

Spirit Lake area would be your best choice. Lots of lodging during the summer is largely empty this time of year. There’s a nice smaller motel in Milford.

Gotta disagree there. I have photos of my uncle and his buddies filling rail cars with ducks to send out east. Don’t think we want to go back to those days.

I remember the lean years when I was kid I limited myself to one each time I went out. Maybe got 6 or so a season. Triple digits a year seems weird to me, but I only hunted South Dakota once, not for me. As another poster said, I count wounded and lost birds towards my daily limit. Again...

Great, how did Kepa work ? Great dog for sure.

I agree those plastic bags are a bigger problem but I’m talking about folks who love to get out and enjoy nature and then leave their hulls lay. Pick yours up if you can, then pick up a few others you run across.

What is the left hand semi auto ? One of these days I’m going to buy a new shotgun, I’d like a left hand.

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I’m more of the opinion to each their own. If they enjoy the hunt I don’t really see the point of trying to get them to conform to what might seem proper to me. Safety is always an exception however. The older the person is the less likely they will take your instructions to heart. Let them do...

Well, you are wrong, bless your heart.

Jebus, I’d like to see a video of a fifth shot kill, especially with a pump. For me it’s the hunt, not the kill. Watching the dog work and being with like minded folks is 90% of it. I once hunted with a fellow who emptied his auto on a straight away and yelled “Kill that f***er” to the poster...

I enjoy doing some research on a rainy morning. Is this the type of AI driven crap we are going to have to contend with ? Odd it’s a (.org) site. Maybe the Dead Internet theory isn’t far off. Here is an interesting article...

Yes, it is hard to pick them up sometimes. Maybe if it was a hunter ethics thing to pick up as many (or more) as you shoot, yours or others. I always put any trash I run across in my game bag, cans, grocery bags, whatever. I imagine the water proof nature of plastic hulls was the driving force...

I posted some photos earlier related to the amount of spent hulls littering the public hunting area here. While hunting opening day next to a popular waterfowl spot the shooting I could hear was nearly continuous for an hour around opening time. Plastic shells have been around for what, 60...

I guess it all depends on personal choice. Of the obviously wounded birds I’ve seen I think many of them are a result of second or subsequent shots. I hate to see one fly clean away then flinch on the second shot. Certainly a bird wounded but not dropped on the first shot requires a second...

Huh, never heard of shooting twice at a bird going down. I’m not the best of shots so I don’t take anything very far out there, and with a full choke the birds are pretty much dead or laughing.