Recent content by Wolfchief

I just use an "old school" Boyt vest with a mesh back--it has a large game bag and I've had it for probably 8-10 years. I have a studied indifference to these $100-300 game vests with all the bells and whistles; they aren't really necessary, for me anyway, to shoot some gamebirds in the fall...

You can enter for both--in October for the November draw and November for the December draw...I entered for both and was selected for neither....same as last year

I watch The Flush often, they seem to get out in some really rotten zero-degree weather and pound through some jungle-class, hairy public ground---wonder if some of the nay-sayers on here would do that to shoot a couple birds?? They're trying to entice newcomers to pheasant hunting, and Lord...

Obi--I have all 3 of the guns on your list; was lucky enough to buy them 10-15 years ago when they were a little bit more affordable. The Sweet 16 is a 28" round knob Mod choked with vent rib from 1967; the Merkel is a 28" pistol gripped gun I bought new at Scheel's in Iowa City and it is...

That's kind of a blunt question, Bob...exploring for your own honey holes is half the fun----someone said recently....

My first pheasant dog in 1990 was a Golden and he was also one of my best ! I was a new bird hunter at the time, and his instinct to retrieve, fine nose and hard drive helped make me a pheasant hunter worthy of the name. Didn't matter whether we were after roosters, quail, huns, sharptails...

I use the Browning A5 (not Auto-5) Sweet 16 which is a bit less than 6 lbs. so an easy carry all day. I mostly use an IC choke but do carry a mod tube. My loads are Boss non-toxic #5's and #6's with 1 1/8 oz. shot. I seem to get every bird I deserve to with that set up. I'll be taking a...

The Indiana Game Bird Habitat locations are full of surprises. We've been picked probably a dozen times since 1990. About 6 of those times the hunting was good; another 3 of those times it was fantastic--rivaling Iowa--and another 3 times it was poor to very poor. One tract, the Deno property...

I have a round knob Belgian Sweet 16 with Mod choke from about 1966, a 20 gauge Belgian IC with rib and round knob (what a quail gun!) and a 20 gauge Belgian choked cylinder with a vent rib--(like new, I don't shoot that one) along with one of the new (about 5 years old) A5 Sweet 16's. John...

Thank you; I have contacted folks and believe we're as ready as anyone can be who's never hunted there before.

Hey Dustin Mudd, could you please reply--I inadvertently misplaced your phone number, thanks.

I started this thread about bird numbers near Lewistown MT. last February--the wish has turned into reality as my son, wife (non-hunter) and I will be staying in a guest cabin and hunting on private ground a bit NW of Lewistown. I contacted a local PF biologist who told me "don't expect South...

This quote is for my tombstone (if I die last; otherwise my wife would never allow it): "he was a middling successful business man, a forgetful father and a fairly attentive husband--but he did shoot a hell of a lot of wild birds."

I bought the '24 Suburban in May of 2024. I really love it; it's about perfect for the outdoor activities I do. My son and I took it to South Dakota and had it off road for several days there but we didn't do any heavy duty mud bogging. It doesn't seem to make sense to take a $94,000 vehicle and...

A5 makes a good point about experience level, and it can be relevant because of the size of the reservations and to add to the complexities, the rez land is not always one solid block of real estate with clear boundaries; there can be tracts of privately owned "non-rez" land interspersed with...