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Best hunting I've ever had has been after a good snowstorm. A few years back it snowed about 8" overnight. Went out to a WIHA that had had the snot beat out of it. Walk for hours and maybe see one hen. No bird tracks (or human) anywhere in a 1/2 section field. Thought, what the heck, I'm here...

Quail season is still open down here in New Mexico if you want to test you and your dog's endurance!

Revise the "no snow" deal. 5 inches night before last but most was gone by the end of the day. Will be interesting what the moisture does to quail distribution. I don't know if it is hunting pressure or just time of year, but in a number of areas they had "disappeared" over the last couple of...

That was my choice as well. I have a 28ga Beretta 686 White Lightning and a 687 two barrel set (20/28). Both 28in bbls. I should have saved my money on the 20ga barrel. I've only used it a couple of times and then found that for whatever reason I don't shoot it as well. Maybe (probably?) mental...

Not one to beat a dead horse, but I used 20ga 3in #4 or #5 Prairie Storms for years on pheasants. Killed quite a few, but never, and I mean never, did a find one of the saturn shaped pellets in bird. I hunt over flushers, so my shots generally start at about 30 yards. My simple analysis is that...

I've used a 28ga for pheasants off and on for years. I decided this year to just use a 28ga as I seem to shoot it better/more consistently than any other gun. I reloaded my own ammo: 1oz #5 and #6 nickel plated shot. Every bird that flushed in range died, and interestingly, as you noted, all...

We are down in central New Mexico trying to get away from snow and cold in Colorado. Have been here over a month. I started out hunting every other day and have cut that back a bit as the dog (and my feet) have started wearing down. A lot of rocky country. There are intermittent coveys of scaled...

Unfortunately a lot of hunters don't think about that catalytic converter hanging down there very close to the ground. If you want to get a cussing out from the locals, park your vehicle on dry grass/corn/soybeans, whatever will burn. Loss of life, loss of property, endangering good folks is not...

The land behind this sign is MINED. No one ever gave it a try to my knowledge.

In South Dakota I don't mess with lead. To me it isn't worth it. I often hunt WIA's, GMA's, WPA's, and other private lands in one day. Life is too short to worry about whether I inadvertently dropped a lead shell into my vest pocket. All it takes is one. Life is too short. If I'm on one of my...

My brother's last dog was a French Brittany. He got her because he had heard they were "close working" and he was getting older. Based upon one dog, which is just that, one dog, he was correct. She worked close, and handled well. He had spent a lot of time over his life training GSP's so he had...

I have "HuntStand", not OnX and can use that on my phone, but I still find an automotive GPS, along with the printed atlas, to be the least distracting and easiest to use. Also, Huntstand doesn't update there WIHA mapping until after the season it appears, so it is one year out of date. Not sure...

Unfortunately many dog owners face this dilemma. Every situation is different but for me it comes down to quality of life for the dog. You have to let the dog go with dignity. To keep him/her alive just to make yourself feel better is doing a disservice to the dog. It is oh so hard, but in the...

I hunt mostly by myself with one or two labs. I use the e-collar primarily for range and return. Once they understand what the collar is and how it works, using light stimulation I train for range first, then return. When they understand that, I add the tone (or vibration if you prefer) as the...

I've gotten so used to loading WIHA (or other state's equivalent) mapping on my Garmin automotive GPS that I'm spoiled. It saves driving around with a map in my lap and even then missing a turn and getting lost (or at least "mis-directed"). I normally load North Dakota, South Dakota and Kansas...

One of our labs had both back knees "repaired" using the TPLO (read expensive) procedure. Considering the cost of the surgery and the dogs well being we followed the vet's advise and did not hunt her for either year of the surgery. The advise and our observations were that a minimum of 4 months...

This was a very helpful thread to me so I thought I would update it with what happened. We lost our 11 year old lab in March of this year (2022). Broke our hearts but she had a good life, which is all we can hope for I guess. My wife was having health problems so we thought it best to hold off...

Exactly what I use. Works well for me. Light, absorbs recoil, very adjustable.

Our vets tell us that the "preventative" vaccine will reduce the symptoms of a bite and, importantly significantly reduce the costs of treatment after a bite. We don't have rattlesnakes where we live but we hunt where there can be snakes, even later in the season so we vaccinate. We talk to our...

I have to say that a Ruger Red Label "sporting clays" (30 in bbls) in 20 ga had to be the best pheasant shooter I ever had. It was heavy, though, so I sold it to save my old body. One year in Kansas (over the entire season) I killed 24 roosters with 25 shots. Never done that again with any gun.