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That's like asking if brunettes, redheads, or blondes make the best girlfriend...

I'll give you all mine, you can pay me back with rooster breasts, back straps, or walleye fillets...

If it happens, which I seriously doubt as it would benefit gun owning hunters, don't be surprised if the Dems amend the program with an Executive Order to make hunting illegal on enrolled CRP lands....

Thanks. She tore her other ACL last year. After consulting several vets, the mutual decision was made to not repair due to her age, but treat it with Rym and therapy, making her as comfortable as possible in her declining years. I've never had a lab live past 11 until Betty. She is headed...

Brings to mind a story. I was in much the same boat as you when I was training my first lab, Josie, under the guidance & mentoring of pro trainer Mark Jansma. I was following the program to the letter, and Josie was coming along great. when she was about 6 months old I had to go out of town...

After I replaced a torn ACL with one of titanium on my Betty in 2014 ($2500 out of pocket), I got vet insurance on all my labs. It was a great decision, BTW. Did it in late winter and she was hunting like nothing had happened that Fall. I finally retired her last year at 14 years old, and she...

Took the Wrecking Crew out after work this afternoon and dug a couple out of the cattails. Man, did they bust cover. They earned some wet food mixed into their dry chow tonight. Harley made two blind retrieves of the type that bring a tear of pride to a guy's eye. Lord, grant every hunter a...

I've been training labs for over 20 years and have had great success basing my program on 10 Minute Retriever and Evan Graham's Smartwork & Smartfetch. Get a copy of John & Amy Dahl's 10 Minute Retriever. Read it through first, then follow it. Don't skip steps/tasks, and don't be in a hurry...

I think the 30" and even 32" shotguns we saw back when had to do with the slower burning powder that was generally used in factory shells. By the time we got into the mid 70's and reloading was becoming more popular, folks & ammunition companies were figuring out they didn't need a 30" barrel...

You know it's a good one when it's flying away and the last couple inches are waving "bye-bye" to you with every wing beat... Got one yesterday that was 24-1/4"...

With only a couple weeks left in the season and October weather continuing in western ND, we are earning every rooster. Went out Sunday, put on 4 miles or so. The Crew put up lots of hens but wild flushes were the rule for roosters. I mean a cough or crunching catttails was enough to wild...

Purina Pro Plan, Eukanuba, 4Health (Tractor Supply's signature food), etc... The difference between premium food sold in farm supply & feed stores and the cheaper stuff sold in Walmart and grocery stores is the quality level of the ingredients. If you compare, for example, the ingredients of...

Having lived in the rural areas of a rural state since the early 80s, I've found that rats show up where ever there is food for them. You have horses, poultry or goats? You have rats...

RR track right of ways are controlled by the RR, and understandably they don't want anyone other than their employees on their land for liability reasons. It was never legal to hunt RR tracks, at least in Minn where I grew up and here in ND. It was just that nobody cared in the 60s & 70s...

A couple weeks ago on the way home from work I came across half a dozen roosters feeding in the ditch a mile or so south of the house. One of those had a tail considerably longer than the rest, and I would go so far as to say the longest of any rooster I saw alive or dead this year. I would...

Concur completely... Of the Wrecking Crew, two could care less about rolling in a stinking mess, but Boogie can't resist it. If there's a rotten carcass/guts or cow patties in the area, she will find & roll in it...

I'm not a big breakfast guy, but I sure would give this a try...

Good advice. I lived in eastern ND for over 30 years before I retired from LE and moved out here to western ND. I would come out here to hunt in the Fall, and I learned to keep the tank full and not to walk 50 yards off the trail to take a dump w/o at least a small pack with the gear to get by...

OK, that clarifies your point. For my thin & dusty dime's worth of opinion, I don't think a 28" barrel on an O/U makes that big of difference in follow through as opposed to a 26", but for me it makes a difference in handiness, storage, transport, and field carry. Besides that, if one is...

Ok, I have to call you on this one. Are you seriously saying a guy will miss 99% of his shots if he uses 26" tubes rather than 28" on an O/U because he forgets to swing? Seems unlikely. Just speaking for myself, I don't miss anywhere near 99% of my shots using my 26" Citotri. To the...