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I have cleaned pheasants one of two ways- if they were being processed at the outfitters to be vacuum packaged, frozen and accompanied by the paperwork, we cut out the breasts within hours of the hunt. When I hunt public land and have to keep them in a cooler with attached wing until I get...

in the off season I came across a few articles about dry aging pheasants before cleaning them. as I understand it, to dry age, you leave the bird fully intact for several days in cool/cold temps. My buddy and I were up recently and caught the weather just right where the temps stayed below 50...

I know its a bitoff topic, but my experience with the e-collars is that they it very helpful with recall without having to yell or whistle over high winds. 99.99% of my e-collar use is vibrate mode. If I have to use the shock mode on a very rare occasion, it doesnt take more than a nick setting...

We are on the home stretch on the return trip from SD. We hunted public access only and put more than a 2-man limit in the air 4 out of 5 days. Got lucky to hunt day 1 in the snow. I plan to go back later in the season, weather permitting. Always a great time to be on the prairie…

isnt that the truth? we strike out before dawn on saturday and hope to step in the first field sunday at 10:00 am. I havent been this early in the season since 2016. not much "work" getting done this week on my end....

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My lab seems to have the same problem. Took her dove hunting yesterday and she got off in the neighboring cutover which looked pretty gnarly. She’s been laying around all day and limping on both front feet and constantly licking the pads on both paws. She won’t let me handle her feet so I...

The last year I made a 9 day trip to SD for pheasant with my 13 month lab to freelance public land and end it with a guided hunt on private land. It worked out to 36 hours of travel time and the rest 4 days on public and 3 days on private. I was solo on the public land hunt and met up with a...

when you say "looks good", do you mean there is a chance of some melt off? I'm from MS and we only get snow accumulation once every few years. its usually only a couple of inches at most and is gone in a few days.

3 buddies and I have been planning to make a quick trip to SE SD the last weekend of January. We started making plans in November in the hopes that the weather would cooperate. Given the recent snowfall last week, I expect our host will break the bad news any day now that everything is snowed...

Three buddies and I have been planning a late season trip to the farmers place we hunt near Mitchel the last weekend of the season. From my computer in Vicksburg, MS , my internet research indicates the SE corner got hammered with a ton of snow. I'm afraid the usual places I go (south of Huron...

The outfit we hunt with served us some pheasant soup (probably more of a chowder than a soup) about 7 years ago and sent us with the recipe. This year was the first time I tried to make it myself. It did not disappoint!

Yes, I’ve been watching the forecasts and webcams for the past 2-3 weeks to monitor current conditions. Last season, we got lucky and caught it just right with unseasonably warm conditions in the last week of January. I’m hoping that the stars will line up again and a “warm” spell will roll in...

I’m from MS and we never get any deep snow to speak of, and if it does snow, it’s gone within a few days. I got lucky last year and was able to make an impromptu late season hunt the last weekend of the season. If a ton of snow gets dumped in SE SD in the next week or so, how likely is it...

My lab turned 2 in October. We got back from a 12 day road trip to SD the week before Thanksgiving. This was her third hunting trip so far. We are hoping to make #4 at the end of January.

I just returned from a 12 day trip in SD. Drove up from MS on 11/3 . My dog and I Hunted public 11/4 thru 11/8. Was supposed to meet 10 guys (also from MS) in Mitchell for a three day guided hunt on thurs. night (11/10) and hunt Fri, Sat and Sun. Tues. night all 10 of them backed out on...

Stella’s Midnight Star, named after the proprietor (Stella, played by Linda Hunt) of the saloon (Midnight Star) in the film Silverado. My dad took me to see Silverado in the theatre when it came out in the 80’s. It is one of the first movies I remember seeing in a theatre, and still one of my...

I drove from vburg, Ms to north Sioux City Thursday en route to Mitchell for an extended trip that has me solo with my two year old lab until Thursday night. I hunted between Yankton and Mitchell Friday, and between mitchell and chamberlain today. I dont catch up with the rest of my group...

Where I am from, there are very few opportunities for quail and dove hunting on state or federally owed lands. As far as i know, we dont have any other upland bird species available, except for maybe woodcock and snipe. The big three game animals around here are deer, duck, and turkey; and...