Snow

BRITTMAN said:
Rain :mad: is now in the forecasted today across much of the ND, SD and Minnesota pheasant belt. Accompanied and followed by high winds and then cold. This is a poor, poor start to the winter for the pheasants. And pheasant hunters.
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This is just bad news for wildlife in general now. Deep snow, rain/snow mix, followed by a bitter cold front that freezes everything like super glue. Mortality is going to be high this time around. Its been mostly non-existent the past couple years with the fake winters.
 
gim said:
This is just bad news for wildlife in general now. Deep snow, rain/snow mix, followed by a bitter cold front that freezes everything like super glue. Mortality is going to be high this time around. Its been mostly non-existent the past couple years with the fake winters.
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That sucks, I didn't know that the snow was so deep in South Dakota.
 
F-bomb, F-bomb, F-bomb.

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Did my best today to help the hens compete but may be the roosters get the ice scratched off the food better - so the hypothesis that less roosters are better is actually false.

Hauling butt back to home now. It was a productive 2 hours of hunting ... appears to be how I end my season this year.
 
BRITTMAN said:
F-bomb, F-bomb, F-bomb.

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Did my best today to help the hens compete but may be the roosters get the ice scratched off the food better - so the hypothesis that less roosters are better is actually false.

Hauling butt back to home now. It was a productive 2 hours of hunting ... appears to be how I end my season this year.
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What is the snow depth in Northern South Dakota?
 
Goosemaster said:
Yes not known for pheasant hunting.
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Fowler Indiana was the center of US pheasant hunting at one time. I took this photo this past Sunday a few miles from there. At least half the birds had already flown away by the time I got my phone out to take the photo.

I regularly see 50 - 100 birds each time I go out to hunt, sometimes less, sometimes more. IN has birds, IL even more.
 
AtTheMurph said:
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Fowler Indiana was the center of US pheasant hunting at one time. I took this photo this past Sunday a few miles from there. At least half the birds had already flown away by the time I got my phone out to take the photo.

I regularly see 50 - 100 birds each time I go out to hunt, sometimes less, sometimes more. IN has birds, IL even more.
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I haven't spent much time in Indiana but I have never seen a peasant in Illinois.
 
rain actually knocked back quite a bit of the snow we had here in southeast SD. buddy said the birds had fed much closer to his farm last night vs. having to fly out further to the wind swept hill tops.
 
gim said:
This is just bad news for wildlife in general now. Deep snow, rain/snow mix, followed by a bitter cold front that freezes everything like super glue. Mortality is going to be high this time around. Its been mostly non-existent the past couple years with the fake winters.
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I was out there for the rain, the snow isn't that deep except at the cattail edges as the wind swept the fields pretty clean, and it was only 2-4 inches. The rain melted the fields clean and was absorbed pretty quickly as there is very little to no frost in the ground and the forecast for next week has numerous days well above freezing. I don't think this weather event will have a significant effect considering its early and the birds are fat and happy. I hope I am right because the numbers are amazing. Central SD
 
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