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Pheasant numbers in the 2025 Minnesota August Roadside Survey were up nearly 50% from 2024 and 21% above the 10-year average, according...

One positive this season - no emergency haying/grazing on anything! A lot of the ditches around me still haven't been cut, either...

If I'm traveling and actually shooting birds--I'd much rather eat them in camp than stick them in a cooler and cart them home. Not to...

100% worth it. I also use my Instinct to track steps/exercise/sleep, as a GPS tracker for myself, read txt messages when I don't want to...

Let the dogs out in the dark this morning, and they came back soaking wet from the dew. Figured the birds would flock to the gravel at...

Thanks for the report, @nater I talked to a farmer whose land we hunt on in western MN, and he said he has seen a lot of young...

Saturday morning coffee drive through the heart of where I hunt: 31 hens, 16 with broods, 15 without. That's not a great sign heading...

That's accumulated total precip from June 10 - July 14, including only stations that reported 90% of the time.

I've now had rain 26 of the last 40 days at my house in SC MN. This is concerning. Flooding/ponding have not been significant issues...

I saw the same thing turkey hunting/scouting. Nearly got run over by a herd of 30+ hen pheasants in March while scouting a WPA. Then...

Lots of variables, but a few things to consider. Median hatch date for MN tends to fall between June 10 and June 15 (depending on the...

I got 3.5 inches Wed/Thursday. Most of that came on Wed. I was in the flash flood zone too, but that area appeared to be isolated to...

Drove through the local grassland complex this morning and saw 5 pheasant broods, 3 of which contained flyers (3-4 week old chicks). It...