Come on, no hero opener day pics posted yet???

A5 Sweet 16 said:
My dad always said he aimed for their heads. Consequently, I go for the feet.
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I got a good bit of the leg and foot on one today (12-15 yard, at contact, bird that held tight). But I was ever so careful to not shoot the little first year spur. I was worried that might require going up on the Canadian for an offering, even thought he wasn't immature.
 
Limitless said:
Probably ND birds that got crowded out down to sd
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Also possible Iowa has shipped oodles of them up there. I hear they are so thick in Iowa that the roads are getting greasy and dangerous with road kill roosters littering the roadways. They might need to pay people to thin the herd.
 
A5 Sweet 16 said:
Well, Ace & I have so far confined ourselves to a pretty small area in southeast SD (20 sq miles). All public. Plenty of standing corn still (maybe 25-30% done harvesting in this area??). I'm VERY excited by the numbers of pheasants we're seeing this early on. And in 4 hunts, only a handful of real young ones, leading me to believe early nesting/brooding conditions were really good. I think we're in for a fabulous season. Here's a picture from yesterday.

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Good job! You do not shoot any young pheasants, which is Good karma, you will need not need to make a trip up to Northern Saskatchewan.
 
Goosemaster said:
Good job! You do not shoot any young pheasants, which is Good karma, you will need not need to make a trip up to Northern Saskatchewan.
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Right now I'm blasting any confirmed rooster and living in sin. If I don't do anything too egregious like shoot a hen or a combine I figure I'll spend time in hunter's purgatory when I die before being allowed through the pearly gates into everlasting CRP surrounded by dirty picked corn fields with Skye by my side.
 
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