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12 week season (15 if you count the september part of grouse/partridge). Try to run out after work once or twice a week + some long weekends. Not too hard when you can hunt within 20 minutes of your house.

Sharptails are pretty much anywhere in the state that has decent habitat (which is usually shorter grass/cover than pheasants like), but in my experience are tough to target by the time pheasant season opens (very flighty). Have never really hunted around the Mott/far SW area with its...

Curious if it was private or public land? If I remember correctly trapping isn't allowed on public land in ND until after bird season. I try to make a point of asking private landowners but I could see them not always being aware.

I was freshly out of college and had never owned a dog and had a coworker who I hunted with who would let me take his lab hunting. He had young kids so he wasn't able to get out more than once a week so he was happy to get the dog more work. The dog was well behaved and not the type to go...

I have definitely been surprised at the amount of cover that has been hayed or mowed - there is not much habitat in the areas I've looked.

I'm not real familiar with the particulars of that area but there are birds around there. Most would recommend going 50-100 miles west/southwest but as always, good hunting is where you find it :)

Did that hail come close to you a couple days ago? Sounded like some golf ball to baseball size near Regent, Glen Ullin, Flasher, etc.

If it's ND and it's not posted I probably wouldn't worry about it - not saying you won't catch heck for it though. Can't say I've ever considered walking one though just since there aren't really any in areas I hunt.

Seeing many broods? Looks like your area had a decent shot of rain yesterday...

I wouldn't get your hopes up too much. There will of course be birds somewhere but it is just incredibly dry in almost all of the pheasant belt in ND. There was a story on the news in Bismarck last night showing a farmer near Bismarck (can't remember exactly where) who was combining his corn...

Correct, just because land isn't posted electronically doesn't mean it's open to hunting without permission.

No contact information is required and most of the tracts I've looked at do not include it.

Pretty much the whole state is in rough shape, moisture wise. Some areas have had some sizable thunderstorm rains over the last couple weeks but that's merely a bandaid. https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?ND

Not what we needed, hope this moderates soon as this is probably burning up some chicks.

You'd have to be incredibly unlucky to have an issue.

Yep, I could point out a bunch that were CRP and are now cornfields and not in PLOTS.

Game and Fish says those tracts that have little cover on them pay a very low stipend; you may be talking $100 or less for a quarter of land. Also need to remember it's not just for pheasant land, what is a pasture may be decent sharptail grouse or coyote hunting. But yes, it would be great to...

Yes, good rains the last 4-5 days. Some areas over 6" but most in the 1.5-2.5" range. Pretty good severe line went through the Mott-Elgin-Flasher area tonight, hopefully not too much hail...

Not the best news for the pheasant hatch again...