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Tracking a down bird without a dog is/can be difficult but not impossible. However, I can still remember the very last bird I shot while I still lived in PA. There were very few birds remaining in my area but I had a farm I could walk to from the house that held a few. I had just walked a...

Good read PeteRevvv. Interesting take on ditches. In 2019 we had too much snow to walk many fields and in 2018 most of our usual spots were under water or not accessible because of water. For these two years we primarily road hunted and walked ditches that were not full of water or snow. We...

I agree with this statement 100%.

Hmmm. I wear orange in December. What does that make me? Not sure I want to up my odds. I already do very well and if I would do much better, the guys I hunt with might get ugly! Kind of a joke but we party hunt and I am always on the plus side of my limit. However, if and when I am a...

A5, Have they changed their story? Or are they still holding their own?

Not really sure how I would attack a public area without a dog. you will definitely have to do what other have not done in the past. Walk that extra 200 yards to the neckdown and hope he waits for you. Come at it from a different angle as they get educated fairly quickly, so do what the other...

Jealous of the late winter bird hunting. I love the dilemma over what to do when 100 plus rise. Gotta work slow for the hold out. He's there, just got to out last him. 8 birds to 1 should be preaching enough!

I grew up grouse hunting in the mountains of Central PA! Which makes every other kind of bird hunting easy. I'm not going anywhere, so keep the invitation in your back pocket for when you are close by.

yes, more than you could ever walk and right in the best area of the state for woodcock. And not to many people hunt them. My hunting buddy and I both work at Clemson University and we usually both pick a young student to mentor in hunting. My buddy runs the shooting sports program at Clemson...

Most impressive A5. I wish I could go every weekend but living in SC I get there for one week a year. For the remainder of bird season I chase woodcock. This year was a good one. On 22 hunts, Harper and I picked up 52 birds. An average of 2.3 per hunt. Very similar to your 2.1. Average...

Nicely done!

Thanks for the report. Been home about two weeks, so now I'm just living through others journals. Like you, we saw very few birds out when we were driving around, but if a spot looked good this year..... it was.

Last year we had two of the same dogs as this year. The rest of the story is my trick back went out on me Monday morning before the hunt and I was unable to hunt the first three days. So we had the most experienced dog and gun only hunt two days this year.

My party of 8 hunted the Mitchel area last week. A combination of private and public. We harvested 65 birds behind three labs. I would have to say bird numbers were about the same as last three years. Although, they were not bunched up like last year. Just about every piece we worked had at...

Yeah, good job Matt D. Nice accounting of your trip. Dogs look great! Getting 8 or 9 straight days of dog work is awesome. Love the pictures and that is totally different habitat than we hunt in SD. One of these years I plan to travel around and hunt like you do. We have settled in an...

Great report. It's always nice to hear accounts from first timers. The learning curve is huge and a lot can be gained from this forum as the author of this string remarked. We have two friends that drove out on a whim with no specific destination in mind other than to pheasant hunt in SD...

Dove hunting is different. I live in SC too and I am an avid dove hunter and woodcock hunter. I will take my dog on the dove field if it is under 90, but she will be sitting next to me and only out to retrieve and back to sitting. Plenty of water and I will usually try to put her in my shade...

BB. You are spot on with your assessment and my situation is almost identical but I drive 1300 miles one way every year to enjoy the friendships and experiences of hunting SD roosters. I grew up in PA and if I saw a dozen birds a year it was a good year. We stay with a family that we have...

I just returned from a 6 day hunt in Douglas and Charles Mix counties. Water and ICE. It was a successful hunt but very difficult. My buddy and I picked up 31 birds and did not loose a single bird. This was the first year we did not loose a bird. Most of the cover we normally hunt was...