Recent content by Weimdogman

The first thought is more birds? But there are probably a number of things. A long season which includes allowing hunters the evening golden hour. Accessible public ground groomed for hunting . And last but not least tourism/non resident hunter. The S.D. Pheasant hunt is on many bucket lists.

No doubt some will get by you but you are hunting them not trying to eradicate them.🙂

If anyone knows AKSkeeter please have him pm me.

Not being argumentative but..... a experienced dog works the wind no matter which way you are going.

I always try and hunt down and back and down and back to push the birds to the end.

Friend has some turkeys on her property and the gf&p asked if they could do mentored youth hunts? She was happy to accommodate them and they share pics of kids and their 1st birds. On a side note my nephew has fallen in love with archery hunting them. He said it is so exciting to call one in...

Around Brookings it hasn't been near enough. Under a 1/2" a couple of times but warm/hot temps with wind this next week aren't going to do anyone any favors.

Is this your picture? I would like to reproduce it. Maybe a fuller image?

It's funny I remember when there was a magazine article about "Silicone Valley wealth" driving up land prices in Iowa. Seems that kids moved to Silicone Valley made stupid money and ran up land prices back home. They had the money and why not put it into expanding the family farm. So we have...

Great post. Get involved. Dogs ,conservation , youth shooting , belong to and support something !

This ground will probably sell for around 12000 a acre. A neighbor who farmed it said never got over 120 bushel per acre. Isn't this all just absurd?

So i have a friend looking at buying some more ground as a investment with recreation/hunting as a bonus. He was telling me about the ground which is not in a area of good ground. Rolling ground and little top soil think pasture ground. He says the land has been renting for 325 a acre. I said...

The 3" shells will chamber but when they go off the crimped area expands out of the chamber area into the barrel. Can create dangerous pressure. I would advise against it.

So i ask everyone i see that has been to the banquet and the only complaint I here is "They need more bartenders". Those new to the event especially women comment they are pleasantly surprised how many women are in attendance. We had 50 paid sponsors no show which is probably common to get...