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Starting to see the jetstream shift in the forecast that will hopefully bring some moisture to the upper midwest over the next 3 weeks. Not holding my breath though. Going to be a lot of exposed mudflats for duck opener here in SD this fall.

It's definitely shot cam activation.

I've stayed in pretty much every hotel in Aberdeen. Used to spend 4-5 days per week there for work for nearly 4 years, and still have occasional jobsite or customer meetings that I need to overnight for. I've spent a lot of nights tailgating in the Super 8 East parking lot drinking the free...

There is/was a few different acreage owners up in that area that like to complain about hunters any chance they get. Women are the worst. We got called in years ago for what was described to us by the CO in between fits of laughter as "shooting machine guns at seagulls." We were snow goose...

Senate destroyed this bill 29 nay to 5 yay. I honestly can't believe it given there's 32 republican senators. A couple lobbyists from the proponent side were speechless. :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

In regards to the winchester bismuth loads posted, the 3" 1's are cheaper by $0.06/round at Midway USA if you select the boxes of 15 or 150. They are sold out of 4's though. More of a heads up for those of us that hunt waterfowl.

Harvest surveys. Throwing darts at numbers on a board. Publishing whatever number the governor's office dreams up.

You'd be amazed at how many land owners/operators will confront and try to prevent you from leaving while they have the sheriff or CO on the phone if they think you broke the law.

Just because the nostrils don't show evidence of a blinder doesn't mean it's a wild bird. More and more commercial operations raise non blindered birds. Keeps the releases more discreet and helps keep the illusion of "100% wild birds." Remember, only licensed preserves have to mark their...

No, the sale reports do not require any additional ID, just "pheasant - hen/rooster."

In honor of commercial hunting operations showing off their political clout this legislative session and other fun political stuff going on in the state, I've written a new tv series. My first TV series will be called "The Lodge," written about a 3rd generation pheasant hunting outfitter named...

Including the 600,000 reported preserve releases? Yes, I think that's a good guesstimate. I've read some people think it's closer to 1.7 million total. Not sure I'm there but I just don't see any other sources of reported numbers to go off of to get any sort of accuracy.

No, and that's a problem in and of itself as to how to use these numbers; but I've talked to a few people in the industry and the consensus is there's really only one farm that sells out of state in any significant quantities. The demand for birds in SD seems to outweigh the supply from in...

Numbers are in; sort of. ...now I cannot extrapolate how many of these birds listed in info I was given were accounted for twice i.e. one producer may have purchased eggs or day old birds from another producer and then raised and sold those birds as adults. The sale of eggs or day olds would be...

Just from a quick google search I was able to find one pheasant farm raising 250,000 birds annually with another 5 farms raising 135,000 total between them. Now obviously not all of those birds had to be sold in SD. Some could have went to other states as well. But there's more than 6 farms...