Recent content by Powderhorn Jim

Good rain in NW SD. Unfortunately hatched chicks may suffer as it is also cold, near snow temps. I'm always surprised at how well the birds survive in spite of everything man and nature throws at them.

I looked up the pay scale for these positions. They vary by location but an entry level GL-5 appears to start in the low $40K/year. Not much higher than a Walmart employee. Agencies are struggling to fill "game warden" type jobs across the U.S. because the pay is not competitive. The jobs may...

We are in NW South Dakota. The whitetail here are loaded with ticks which means lots of ticks to go around. I took the dogs out for a short run yesterday and picked 9 of the little S.O.B.'s off my pants legs even though I had sprayed them with bug dope. This wet weather really seems to agree...

Lots of good cowboys (and cowgirls) in South Dakota. Many world champions call SD home. The little town of Belle Fourche is a hotbed for good cowboys/girls and great horses.

My vet recently told me that NexGard has some repellent properties. Not sure if that is true or she is just trying to sell me NexGard as I currently use Credelio, but it is worth a try. This time of year I use bug spray around my boot, ankles and pant legs which helps "repel" them. It would be...

I use an e-collar to break them from digging. Set on a high shock. No voice command - at all. You want them to think the shock came from the hole they are digging. Ideally, you also shouldn't be visible. The shock has to come as they are actively digging, not at any other time. At no point do...

I'm on my 6th generation of Labradors. As far as I know, none suffered hearing loss. A couple sat in my truck while we shot skeet or sporting clays, with the windows down. All hunted ducks, geese and upland game. Often setting right beside the gun in a duck blind. The oldest lived to be 14 and...

The 28ga version I have are boxed as your lower photo. No idea if/how they are packaged now.

A friend gave me 4 boxes of the "Federal Blue Box" in 1 oz #7.5, 28ga a couple of years ago. I have no idea where he found them but I use them for desert quail and they are lethal. If I could find them in #6 I'd buy a case in a heartbeat. Entirely subjective, but my experience is that they far...

The best British labs and the best trainer is Blaine Winans, Winans Retriever Kennels in Dodge City Kansas. He has the finest kennel and training grounds I've ever seen. Look him up, give him a call. Worth the effort. Worth the drive.

Its a wrap on another season in New Mexico. Early was pretty good, but the area I hunt has been very dry and severely overgrazed so the quail are struggling. Most of my season was "armed dog walking", but the dogs and I need the exercise and every once in a while we'd find a few quail...

Same thing in central New Mexico. Hot, dry. Quail are spotty, run miles just for fun. The dogs and I are getting a lot of "armed dog walking". At least they are happy and I'm keeping (somewhat) slim.

Your story brought to mind my one "run in" with a local sheriff's deputy, in Kansas. In all the years I've hunted I've only had my hunting license checked once and never had any interaction with local law enforcement until a couple of years ago. I was hunting a very large Pheasant's Forever...

Though it is nice to be able to hunt a time or two in January, I hunt both in SD and KS and just don't see enough hunters to effect the pheasant population. If the weather is really bad, as it can be in ND, most hunters aren't going to go anyway. I believe SD enacted their extension to keep up...

My 11 year old lab has been hunting hard in ND, SD, KS and now New Mexico (quail). I've worked hard to keep her weight down. She actually weighs less now than she did 5 years ago. There is no doubt she is tired at the end of the day, but she works as hard now as she did when she was a pup...