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No but they may well check that your live wells are dry and inspect your trailer for invasive species. Now if they find fish they are going to ask for a license. In S.Dak they set up nautical inspection stations. The wildlife that our COs are guarding can't speak for themselves and I am damn...

Train them.

Well I hunt all 3 together about 75% of the time. That's hard to do by myself so I welcome the chance to introduce new hunters.

Those Manzilla gloves are pretty decent.

Frogg Toggs are also great cold weather gear. Wind proof and waterproof so they trap your body heat in. A t shirt with a Frogg top and my light canvas hunting coat and I am good down till it's too cold for the dogs( which i found this last year is 10 below).

that is exactly the format of our pf youth hunts . With the extra requirement that the kids have to have a huntsafe card. Knock on wood the only problem we have ever had is a couple kids are too good of shooters and have to be told to exercise some restraint for the other kids! Kids and their...

You know reasonable reason to search is very open to interpretation. A truck hunting dogs,maybe a orange cap,vest shells,shock collars,strange to the area any may rise concern. As I previously posted they may have been looking for someone else say a suspected drunk driver. Ask for your license...

It's a cold hard fact there are fewer hunters every year. Now S.Dak. nonresident pheasant hunting #'s maybe close to same because it's tradition or a bucket list item.

You know some times officers are looking for someone or something that we are not privy to. I had a Border Patrol officer shove a Glock in my back and order me against the wall while in the customs area at DFW airport. I was escorted into the area to do work for a vendor. The escort raised hell...

Alfalfa used to be a great crop for pheasants now it is a death trap. The equipment moves so fast that hens and young birds don't get out of the way in time.

Using today's shells i wouldn't worry about using i.c. .

My local C.O.s all know me and if they stop to talk I have to prod them to check my license ,game shells.

If it's Alfalfa it may be in rotation but not a every other year type rotation. Alfalfa will add some nitrogen back to a field and if the farmer needs hay or has a market for it you may see corn go to Alfalfa for a few years. Corn is the cash crop king so it wins out.

I have never seen a flush that blackened the the sky but 300 birds in 10 rows of a snowed in cornfield is something I will never forget. Another thing I have seen is a path like a deer trail where pheasants were walking between a abandoned farm place and a cattail slough. The path went down...

Yesterday I had my farmer friend with his brother and nephew out walking some private ground that always holds plenty of birds. My friend thinks we always have to have a blocker so he takes the nephew and hightails it around the crp. The brother and I are in small patch of crp with my 3 weims...

You lost me.

Well you might extrapolate something along those lines. And from there you may deduce that you may need to change your tactics.

So I hunt as much as anyone and I will tell you the weather and the habitat greatly effect the # of birds and most importantly where you will find them. 5 and 6 years ago we had a lot of birds and unusually wet ground and the birds were hard to hunt without hipboots. All the cover meant birds...

Tonight I had my first meal of birds from this season. Cooked the pheasant breast chunks in butter with black pepper and a pinch of salt. Open skillet cooked till almost all the moisture was gone. Added a couple tablespoons of honey and more black pepper. Stirring constantly with the heat up...