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If you build it, they will come! I bet those firebreaks will be a great stopper to push the birds to.

2.9" of rain again last night, the wind blew, not sure if that was bad or not at this point. Sunday night's wind blew my sweet corn patch down. I see Plymouth County has 470 customers without power, so the winds must have been substantial. The rain this year is crazy compared to the last...

I see this coming, we'll see if it stays together and drops down on us. Looks like we will be finding out what this one has in it. The blue dot is basically me. EDIT: Got lucky, the big winds (into the 90s mph), stayed north 60 miles or so north of us. .1" of rain...they say more will be...

Another .8" of rain last night, heat index of 105* coming today. Last few days have been really hot and humid. Sounds like storms are likely tonight. These chicks that make it, will be tough birds!

Didn't know this...

I would not be surprised to find in my harvest, some of this year's hatch with webbed feet....another 1.8" in the gauge from last night. I would guess we have had twice the rain as last year and a much this year as the 3 years prior to last year combined. The crops will likely be incredible and...

I don't travel to bird hunt, but when traveling to shoot prairie dawgs, I cook breakfast and diner at the motel. You can find Coleman suitcase stoves for little to nothing on FB MP or at swap meets. *that just happens to be my pheasant breakfast sausage

I messed my knee-up about 10-days ago. Never went to the Dr., but for a few days walking was an issue. It has been getting better that last couple days, still no extra walking and up and down stairs are a slow affair. I have been hoping I am healed-up well befor the opener. The one that I am...

Where are you from or where were you at? Even a state would be nice.

I have never had a GSP that I could out last. My dog gets into condition the same as I do.....hunting. We'll when my Dude was 11 and older, (his last 2 seasons) and I was not in my 60s, I could hang with him. Now, a dog about 9 or 10 years old would be just my speed most outings, at least the...

New guy with a pic on his first post...yah, you'll fit in good here! Welcome from a neighbor to the south.

At this point, I am sure I can raise pheasants better that corn or sorghum. Pencil-in a trip to NW part of the state.

Exactly. The farm with all the birds is 154 acres of great habitat and 6 acres of food plots. We have 2 other farms with creeks that have filter strips, those amount to around 5 acres each, if you flushed 20 birds out of one of those, it would be a lot. Between 10 and 20 would be what you...

They can't ask everyone, guessing every state does it quite similar. Guessing they use an average harvest that is reported, times the percentage of hunters that report going pheasant hunting...but not nearly that simple or maybe it is a simple deal. I have had a hunting license for close to...

I certainly could have, on a label I just googled, (similar hericide) for grain sorghum 5-15" high...use drops if over 8". This label said 2 thirds of a pint/acre, I thought mine said 1 pint...I used 1 pint and I am not equipped with drops, so some crop damage would not be a surprise, I didn't...

There are different food plots pictured, each of these were planted 3 times. The fist planting had one-third corn and the the balance wes sorghum. In the second pic above you can see one corn plant that survived (upper right), the birds really got after the seeds. I ended up spreading shelled...

460,000 roosters....how many did you report Bob? Here is a link to the article https://www.iowadnr.gov/news-release/2025-07-08/pheasant-hunters-bagged-more-460000-iowa-roosters-2024

Careful, on posting where PF helped give public land hunting opportunities. We have more than a few that are PF haters here. I am sure you won't catch them on any ground PF had a hand in....right!

The climate has seemed to have changed here, another 1.25" of rain this week. Here are a couple pics of some of the food plots. A lot of grass coming through, but at least I have finally have some of the target crop survive. That sorghum needs to get growing and heading out. There was a...

Received .45" over the weekend and a bit over .8" last night. The crops look awesome around here. The last several years the chicks had hot & dry weather to deal with, at least it has been warm with these rains. We had a pretty awesome carry-over, there will be a bumper crop of birds again if...