Recent content by PeteRevvv

My sentiments exactly- you just have to be dedicated to the art of dog training and any breed should do, right? Also a little worried about getting out in those big open spaces and getting lost. If you give them a name and make them a family pet, wouldn't that make it harder if you get lost for...

I come out for opening weekend every year and SD first-year birds are about the same level of dumb on Saturday morning as pen raised if the locals haven't been out the weekends before. They stand around trying to hide behind fence posts, run across the roads out in the open or flush at your...

I've been trying to reform my wayward ways and get off the straight and narrow path to learn to field hunt and walk back and forth more. I realize I've not paid really any attention to the dog training threads here but I went out anyways and got as many of the big black ones as I could afford. I...

Local famers in SD I hunt with did a lot of bird management back in the day. Wild chicks caught and pen raised were as dumb in the field as any other pen raised bird. So they switched to pen raised chicks released into active wild nests which were raised by a wild hen and developed smart birds...

The web site maps at Montana Game and Fish and South Dakota Game and Fish can give you this information, but in different views. The Montana web site maps showed high concentrations of surveyed "Upland birds number" in the purple hash areas and allowed me to layer on that public hunting areas...

They will do the same to hawks so whenever scouting or road hunting, keep an eye when the circling hawks dive down near the ground, you may catch a rooster jumping up to meet it with their spurs.

Corn went in late due to the wet/cold spring so the maturity date is later than normal and so is the start of harvest. But the exceptionally dry and warm Sept/Oct has the standing corn at moisture levels that can go directly into bins without drying which really speeds it up. Fields are dry and...

I have self retrieved 95% of the birds I have ever shot so speaking as a two-legged birddog, I find them headed on foot in the same direction they were flying off to when flushed. It doesn't seem like birds wait until they get airborne to survey the situation and decide which way to fly. They...

I always see at least three wall-hanger rooster here: 43.69052656756659, -98.01736454300735

Sure, 50 miles west of Kampeska.

Talked to local farmers last night in the Aberdeen/Redfield area and most beans will be done this week. There is not a rain in sight on the forecast so they plan to have a solid two weeks and be well into the corn harvest by opening weekend. Weeds are high and thick everywhere as they had all...

Soybeans are very temperamental for harvesting. Too dry and the pods shatter when it hits the combine and the beans are lost in front of the head. Too much dew in the morning or evening and they have to stop as the pods get sticky and tough with just the small amount of humidity and plug up the...

I stay off most section lines during the last hour and a half as most have very little open gravel for the birds to pick and are just all dirt track and grass. Those that do have gravel are excellent all day long. Otherwise they make for great mid-day walks to catch them loafing in the tall...

As with all general statements YMMV. But if a first time poster says they have an opportunity "to stay in either Waubay or Aberdeen to pheasant hunt and which should they choose?" then what would you tell them is generally the better option for them? Watertown vs Redfield, Madison vs Mitchell...