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Perhaps,,but the memories we made were worth every dollar…and it’s kept me coming back every chance I get.

first year i was invited to SD on a group hunt, one of our group brought a .410 pump as his only firearm for the weekend. we walked grass over pointers and pushed corn rows/milo fields with a couple of blockers on the end. we set up the so the guy with the .410 was a driver and walked in the...

There was a lengthy discussion about this a few years ago. If I can find it, I’ll post the link. Anyway, there is apparently a court case in SD which the court said if a hen was killed, the violation is possession and if a hen is killed, the lawful solution is to leave it in the field. Edited...

10x40. ceiling in the shed is about 9ft. Looks like a small barn with a high ceiling/loft.

I have a friend who raises his own quail. He has an old tool shed that is about 20x40. He has half of it netted off and keeps the quail in there. Keeps them out of the weather and keeps critters away

I clean the birds at the motel and put the entrails in a garbage bag and toss em in the dumpster.

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...