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My only experience with pro trainers is in the retrieving world. To make a living you need to train a lot of dogs. To train a lot of dogs you have to be efficient. What I have seen is that a dog that does not fit in the easily trained profile gets the short shift. The vast majority of their dogs...

What BB said. Every year is different but if you are going to stay in a motel book early. When I stayed in motels I often booked for the next season when I was finishing hunting the present season.

Bob has goldens, I have goldens. You don’t have a chance and besides after almost 4 months in a 20 foot travel trailer my wife wants rid of me.

WOw did I open up a can of worms. From what I gather you can be a resident of SD for tax purposes and vehicle registration for far less time than to qualify for a resident hunting license. That I can understand,AK requires you to be a resident for 1 year to get a resident fishing and hunting...

Right now I am traveling the southwest. The campgrounds have many South Dakota plates. One camper said all SD requires is for you to spend one night every 5 years in SD to be a resident. Now these people are full time RVers and are not real residents of any state. I met one couple who have lived...

For what it is worth we put the ND plots maps on an I pad and use that for getting to the general area and than onx on the phone to fine tune. I would assume other states would have similar maps.

It keeps getting slowly better. So I’ll stick my head in the sand and tough it out. If it is not better when I go home(Feb?) I’ll go see a Doc. I’ll have to find a new one since all my old ones have retired.

Thanks guys for all your help. I’m bumbling around but have found enough birds to empty the gun a few times. They do seem to run like roosters and the dogs are doing fine flushing singles. Not quite as exciting as pheasant hunting but nice weather and plenty of country to walk. Maybe it not as...

Okay more cool data, but hasn’t convinced me to get a pointing dog yet. That said I saw some really good vizulas at an agility trial and am thinking of adding one to the household.

Minnesota plates have a reputation for that behavior in MT and the Dakotas. I’ve never hunted in Minnesota partially because of that reason. I always figured that it had to do with the crowded conditions in Minnesota.

Now that is cool. I’ll buy lunch if you can mark the points and flushes on there.

Years ago I worked on a house in AK that someone from MN owned. He claimed to be an AK resident for tax purposes but his business was in MN. Don’t know how he did it but he claimed by being an AK resident it reduced his taxes so much he could fly back to MN a couple times a month and still be...

They hunt just fine in heat. Just keep them close so nobody else runs into you. Now if you also have an intact male he maybe out to lunch for a while.

A bit off topic but I did an agility trial today and one of my goldens got first and another got third in the masters standard run. This was with me having a bum knee. This week they will get introduced to desert quail I hope if I can figure out where to go for them.

It is probably the best private land program to allow the public to hunt. There are a lot of different rules. Some ranches allow only so many hunters, others make you contact the landowners and others just allow you to hunt by just signing in. A great program that is abused by some and loved by...

That sounds great, will try it when I get home. Last summer i wrapped some breasts in bacon and smoked them. Afterwards I cut them up and used on a pizza. Might smoke some and mix with bacon and grind for burgers now.

That is why for the last 3 years I have used a travel trailer. Might not save any money but the meals and peace of mind are priceless.

I’ve had goldens for hunting since the 70s, yes I am that old. Sometime around when Ford became president they became extremely popular and the hunting ability suffered. The hunting lines have come back and I see more of them in certain areas of the country. The northwest and alaska has a lot of...

The only good memory of the accident was that I got a double on roosters over my young dog about 15 minutes before I fell in the hole. She was working another one which I missed while half in the hole. Swelling is going down now, I even put my own shoes on today.

So my pheasant season ended a bit early when I stepped in a badger hole and my good knee looks like a soccer ball. However my travels will take me through AZ. Middle of December. So I know nothing about desert quail but would like to give it a shot. Give me the basics, at least enough so I can...