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A good omen for 2025, I was headin back for the truck in about 90 minutes this morning.

Gus and I were a good team today. I must shoot better when I am dry than when wet. I did have one get up, right when I had something in my eye (likely bluestem). I pulled-up and just couldn't see well, I shot, the bird was still going, I couldn't see well enough to try again, pulled the gun...

The camera adds 3 inches to the length.

That was my thought....well?

With these Vikings, they can (and usually do) turn any lead into a nail-biter game!

If both the Vikings and Lions win this week, it will be the first time ever in the NFL, that a 14 win team did not win their division.

I will be back home and have by birds cleaned long before the game starts. Yep, lucky fella here! Well that jinxed me! Got my limit of wet. Got a pair yesterday, this broke my "once a weekend" hunt, that I had been doing. So far, so good, but the Pack are a second half team. With MN...

My father talked about shooting rabbits around corn piles at night, by car lights I believe, and selling them to the local mink farms also. He talked about shoot their limits of pheasants driving between farms, that would have been in the 50s as he was born in 36. They chased and shot lots of...

Don't tell this to the snow geese....from what I understand it can/does effect wild birds. I need to do some of my own research to be sure. Edit, on a quick Google search, it does seam to effect wild birds, the bigger thing sounds like the strain of it, there are high and low pathogenicity, the...

My father is in the nursing home and a couple weeks ago, there was a new "old fella" at his table in the dining hall. As often happens with me conversations turn to pheasant hunting. This new 90 some year old fella starts telling how in the 30s and 40s the pheasants were so thick, they...

No, I will not be looking for more of that.

This is the only video I have watched this year, that was an awesome recovery! What were you (or the guy doing the shooting) doing when he recovered that last bird, looked like beating it's tail end on the gun's stock....maybe using the bird to knock snow out of the trigger/receiver??? Nice...

My last 2 weeks, I have seen plenty of birds, but they are jumpy, often flushing 100+ yards in front of us. My shooting has been a bit to be less than desired. Had my chances at limits but finished with just 2 birds on each of my last 2 outings. I trust I will shoot better tomorrow and be...

Our terraces are filthy with holes, a hazard to walk them...a hazard to just cross them. I would like to walk the tops, but no way. I assume all the digging was badgers after mice and ground squirrels (13-lined ground squirrels is what we have here). Bob's fishing experience is exactly why I...

Just keep increasing your lead Bob!

Posted these spurs in a different thread here. I think you can assume that if the spur has a sharp point they are at least a season old (1.5 yr) bird.

I hope the game pouch is full of blood stains and feather after the weekend!

My buddy shot a lighter colored (blondish) rooster last season. The legs were more yellowish and just a callous like bump where the spurs would have been. I am guessing a hermorphadit. I might have even posted a pic of it here. Edit: it had one spur...

Those tracker devices might be handy so you family can find your body for a service. Meeting our maker couldn't come in a better way than a heart attack in your favorite hunting area. If I am so lucky to have this happens to me, I hope the smile is still on my face when I (my shell) is found!

Uh, strong wind. A whole different experience. They get up and are gone in a second...most of the time, once in a while, one try's to buck the wind and is an almost stationary target. I hope your temps are above freezing. Good luck, let us know how it goes. Add: I guess I have never not...