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Was in Bismarck Scheels on Sat, they too had a bunch of 12 gauge 3" 5 shot Prairie Storm...

Local or not, private land in the Mott/Elgin/Regent area runs about $250 per gun per day and you may well not be the first or even second on it that day. On PLOTS you may not be the first on it that day, but at least it's free... Personally, I will not pay a trespass fee to hunt even if I have...

Looking like early season in ND is going to be dry & warm/hot, so it was a good excuse to look for a new pair of boots. I had gotten a pair of Irish Setter Vapor Treks for this purpose a couple years back. Broke them in but didn't use them much until a few weeks ago when I wore them during the...

Call me Capt. Obvious, but I can advise 3"ers are no fun to shoot in a 12 gauge Citori Featherweight. That being said if 3" were the only PS available, I would buy some and limit their use to my SX4, BPS, and various 870's. For waterfowl, 99% of the time I shoot 3", and that last 1% is 3.5"...

We didn't get it but SE of here they did. Hail was up to baseball sized. Some ranchers my wife follows on FB got out buildings destroyed and had horse injured...

Hit & miss out here, but seeing shotgun shells on the shelf is getting better. Not a lot of choices of make & shot size yet yet, however all gauges but .410 are usually available. Runnings in Dickinson has Federal Dakota Country Pheasant for $12.99 and Premium Upland for $25.99. 2 boxes per...

Currently absolutely pouring out here in SW ND. on the way into work this morning, saw adult and sub-adult pheasants as well as huns in the road...

When the Wrecking Crew gets birdy, I'm hustling over and getting in their hip pockets...

I live north of New England, ND, a bit NW of Hettinger. ASC is on the money. Unposted private land is rare in this area, and this year electronic posting has begun so land that doesn't have posted signs may well still be electronically posted. As for PLOTS and WMA's, the following is...

From 1983 until 2018 I lived in NE ND where 98% of my hunting was waterfowl so I have a lot of experience with non-toxic shot. When I moved down to SW ND in 2018, 98% of my hunting became upland and as I avoid areas that require non-toxic shot, the vast majority of what I shoot now is lead...

Be mindful to keep yourselves and your dogs well hydrated while hunting ND and SD this year. Also, with the drought conditions this year anticipate blue-green algae in about any slough or stock dam you find in the field this fall. Remember your dog will cover twice as much ground as you and...

Be mindful to keep yourselves and your dogs well hydrated while hunting ND and SD this year. Also, with the drought conditions this year anticipate blue-green algae in about any slough or stock dam you find in the field this fall. Some of the guys who have been around awhile will likely recall...

It's pretty much a given that the RR doesn't want anyone on their property because of the legal liability. I too hunted along a section of tracks for years, but I made sure I had permission to hunt the adjacent private land/slough. The easiest was to get to the private land was to walk a few...

Well, you get points right off the bat for hunting with a lab. Shoot me a PM...

Maybe the newer Upland Specials are lighter, every one I ever picked up was a load for it's size, but they were 12 gauge as I recall. One of those reassembly PITAs is keeping the spring steel shell holders in their slots on either side of the receiver while you struggle getting the...

I'm left handed and the BPS has been my go-to shotgun for decades, particularly for waterfowl. I would guess I've owned 8 or so over the years. IMO they are the best LH friendly shotgun, but they are also a very old design and with the bottom eject action, by definition one of the most complex...

Would always like to see more, but it hasn't been terrible. Saw some pheasant chicks late last week by the mailbox and again on the road Sunday evening coming home from Medora. Seeing quite a few from the earliest hatches that are pretty well grown. Those roosters with some color but no long...

And sometimes you just get bad luck. I have a buddy who bought a lab pup from what he described to me as a reputable pro gundog breeder. That pup had one of the worst cases of EIC I ever heard of. It literally couldn't do a couple puppy bumpers in the yard w/o collapsing. It had a 26 month...

As a breed, labs can be genetically disposed towards seizures, the same as EIC. Over the years I've seen several labs have these health issues, and the common thread was they were all backyard breedings by well meaning but limited knowledge amateur owners (not saying Echo is from an amateur...

EMT Gel story from quite a few years back. A guy was hunting down by Valley City ND and his dog ran full on into a bottom strand and cut it's throat. The hunter squeezed an entire tube of EMT Gel into the gaping wound, applied pressure, and like you did with Echo made an emergency run to a...