Recent content by zoops

Correct, but it's rare to see people without it.

And then the internet, youtube, podcasts, covid, etc. happened...

Yea, the days of just being able to go out and hunt unposted land are just about over. The e-posting has kind of gone how I figured it would, in that pretty much everything would get posted. A friend who grew up in the NW was talking about how some extended family has land that has never been...

Yea, my grandfather had a group that hunted a week in NC ND back in those days and they had a journal that one of his friends showed me a few years ago. They had a couple years in that time frame that they shot over 100 huns during their stay, pretty crazy to imagine that anymore. They focused...

Haven't been down there. Been a fairly wet summer, which should be good but there were probably some areas where thunderstorms had a negative affect as there were several rounds of fairly severe weather. Brood surveys from the game and fish should be out in a couple weeks.

Been over 5 years since I tried Mallard, seemed the last couple times we tried it was pretty slow. It was the first week of the season too. Not sure why, lots of habitat. Lots of public land within a hour of Coleharbor; I wouldn't expect easy limits but with decent dogs you should get some...

Kind of wet and cool here during the peak of the hatch unfortunately

Obviously we know we aren't going to get rich going into teaching, but you might want to check your statements. Not sure where my 40k/year in benefits would come from - our health insurance is good but not sure the premiums are anywhere near that. We also pay 12% of our salary into our pension...

You are correct about the maps and the posting. You won't see a lot of unposted land within an hour of Bismarck. Bismarck is certainly in the middle of pheasant country. Fair amount of public land and good amount of hunters. You mentioned being interested in huns, not a ton of them around here.

Depends. Some will (if you can find them), some won't. I think a good chunk will give permission at some point, but it might depend on the time of year, if they have cattle around, if they have people already hunting that week, etc.

As mentioned, those areas are the electronically posted areas and in my experience maybe 25% have a phone number listed. Keep in mind land can also be posted with signs and in most areas of the state I'd estimate that about 90% of land is posted. The ArcGIS app for your phone is pretty good...

Sharptails get difficult to hunt come October - very tough to get close to. If you are needing a motel, mid/late October is going to be the most difficult time with that being the busiest time for nonresident waterfowl and pheasant. I wouldn't expect to be able to just call ahead a few days to...

I'd agree with what has been mentioned here; sharpies are pretty much throughout the state if you have grass (which the eastern third doesn't have a lot of in most areas). Huns more in the western third but seem like they'd be tough to specifically target, but I know guys do it. My grandfather...

I pheasant hunt any free time I get all season long, but I can't say I'd be in big favor of going through January. Perhaps give another week or say it closes the sunday closest to Jan. 10 (the years that Jan. 1 falls on a Sunday it can kind of stink closing that day since a lot of people have...

I don't recall a pheasant hunter being shot by a deer hunter but I suppose it's happened. Can't imagine hardly anyone would go without at least a hat and some on the vest. I put an orange vest on the dog too, which I'm more worried about than myself as some road hunter could think it's a...