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I just built a Johnny House and will be getting some adult quail soon to start exposing my new pup (12 weeks) to birds. Question is where to out it right off the bat. I have access and permission on a couple large ranches, both of which border a river. Although i plan on moving it around as...

Thanks, I’ll use each and every one of those excuses! 😜 I don’t mind missing waterfowl because I can hunt them a few mini from home. However, when one has to drive a minimum of 6hrs to eastern CO and 12 when I come to SD, the misses seem to start getting to me on day 3-5 😉

Im sure you’re aware of this, but for those who are not, root structure of native prairie grasses are EXTENSIVE! If done correctly, plantings can stabilize soils, sequester a huge amount of carbon underground almost as much as mature forests, and provide both wildlife habitat and ag forage.

Yes, the small tree line in the background was on the boarder of a CREP. We flushed a few birds into it while hunting a cattail patch and they flushed out of it when we got close and the dog went into it to get the bird. That Ol’ dog was dragging bad by the time we got to that point, but he got...

Hunted central section of the state from Jan 17-21. If I had to give any suggestions, I’d say use the snow depth map!!!! It was remarkably accurate and the difference between hunting in2-4, 4-8 inches vs 8-12 was remarkable. I don’t know why, but it seems like my shooting gets worse as the year...

2nd rule of hunting I was taught by my dad, if you’re not going to eat it, don’t shoot it. Besides jerky, geese are pretty good either smoked and then made into fajitas or slow cooked in apple juice and then shredded and covered with bbq sauce. Have a friend who was raised trapping and...

thanks for those of you who stuck with the subject and didn’t go into the pen (bad) vs wild (good) conversation. Knowing what worked before is how to plan for the future. I didn’t know about the strategy of planting live chicks in wild bird nests, brilliant! Looking at the info in the meaningful...

The private land I have access to out east told me not to bother as they haven’t seen any Pheasants since June, really sad. So I’m heading to one of the Dakotas next week and will swing back through their farm on thanksgiving to walk a couple of fields with them for old times sake. Good luck...

Hey Waterdog, We’ll, how did it go with the storm, both hunting and camping? I have to admit, I stayed home and skied instead.😉 I also almost always camp when hunting solo, Where have you found is the best place to tent camp with your group? Pay Campgrounds or public lands? Do you set up and...

With the droughts in many traditional Pheasant states knocking numbers way back over multiple years, there is always someone who posts on this forum about stocking to rebuild populations. I believe most people (but not all) seem to agree that stocking birds is not helpful as those pen raised...

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I remember that as well, but at least with us it was the landowner doing the driving 😆 Go figure, NEVER did we actually get one doing that but for a kid, nothing more fun!

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A couple years back in October, I was pulling into a public hunting area in Montana at night in a full out bizzard thinking what the heck was I doing. Roads were dangerous, visibility was almost as close to nothing as you can get. Luckily I was sleeping in the back shell of my truck, but my...

Rereading my earlier post, I realize that I’m rushing things and rolling the dice when I don’t need to. I retired early in life for a reason, to roll with it. Depending on forecasts, I’ll head up sometime after Nov 17th, hunt my 5 days and then maybe swing back home via eastern Montana or...

So I have a quick window to get away and hunt SD. Looking at the forecast, it looks like wind between 20 and 40mph on a few of those days. I can either leave tomorrow and hunt Tuesday through Saturday and get back home for moms 85th birthday on Monday ( this was my original plan), or wait until...

Although, because I usually hunt alone w/dog now, I rarely walk through cut corn, when I was a kid learning to hunt the group that took me out often walked through cut corn. Early/ mid 80s didn’t have much CRP, but corners were often grass. No one having a dog, We would line up from fence row...

I “gave up work” a couple of years ago at age 50 (stay busy with rental properties etc) and now find that most of my friends are in their late 60’s and early to mid 70’s (one guy canoed the Grand Canyon on my last trip at age 70!) because they have the time and funds to spend their time in the...