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OMG!!!!! No super young ones…all well colored and feathered….

Part of the reality of owning 2-4 bird dogs, as I have for the past 20+ years, and not having any other family member that is involved with them, is that they become my lifestyle…I don’t fish anymore, though I may get back into it. The dogs are with me all the time…anywhere I go…so I’m somewhat...

I probably hadn’t read the earlier posts, I’m probably wrong…just went back, you’re right on…

I’m truly overjoyed when my pals get the best shooting. Last Wednesday, my buddy showed up that I hadn’t hunted with in quite a few years..I advised him to hunt a certain way…he knew the drill…he had already got a bird on some CREP a mile away that we hunted, then he got 4 on my ground, I got...

I think he meant 57 years old…but as always, could be wrong…😋

Cleaned my birds…collectively, season to date, 90-95% are first hatch birds of the year…we had a great hatch, so it seems….

I left yesterday, my buddy stayed and hunted some public ground next to a corn field that was harvested yesterday…he was done by 10:25…most birds he’s seen so far this season…

I get a major charge out of the names of vehicles…Denali, king ranch, Durango, sequoia, telluride, tundra, Santa Fe, to name a few. I doubt most people driving them have ever been to Denali or telluride or the tundra…but I could be wrong! 😄

When my wife was in rehab for a month in 2016, I took the RAV4 a few times to SD.,,2 Rufftuff Intermediate crates fit fine in the back, and Lena rode next to me up front. Pretty good system for solo hunter. Oh, I had an equinox as well, lousy from a reliability standpoint. Hunted out of that...

I was a financial advisor for 34 years, retired 2.5 years ago. I saw first hand how many people live, and consume, etc; we’re still in the first house we bot in ‘93…tight with 3 kids, but they’re out now. The first 12% of each paycheck was mine, starting day 1. Oh, I had a ford Taurus station...

To each his own, no issue…I’ve had 3 suburbans, fine vehicles, though quality fell off with each successive one I owned…Saturn outlook sucked from reliability standpoint…my 2016 Silverado hasn’t been great either, but ok. I use it when necessary. I care about what works well for me, could care...

All my sharptail hunting in MT/ND is done out of the van; SD pheasant hunting I’ll use the van in October…sometimes Nov…

I just returned from SD in my ‘17 Toyota Sienna fwd van…2nd and 3rd row seats removed, 4’ x 8’ piece of plywood on floor, room galore! 4 dog crates, easy access via sliding side doors, great for old dogs. Bot it with 12k about 7.5 yrs ago, 254k now, very minimal issues…bot another 2019 earlier...

Like walking on coke bottles!

It’s simply a function of days afield…30, 40, 50 days afield…with decent dogs, and decent hearing, and decent shooting…the #’s add up pretty quickly…especially when you’re with a group of 6, 7, 8 guys, and 1/2 don’t have dogs…6, 8, 10 bird days aren’t unusual in SD…especially if the guys can’t...

I’ve seen birds in turnips and other similar cover crops…been 5-7 years, they loved them…walking was a challenge!

There’s a lot of people that don’t hunt, but used to, or that have people in their lives that used to hunt, like dad’s, uncles, brothers, grandpa’s, etc..and preparing pheasant for them reconnects them with these people, or different periods of their life…or gifting them fresh birds, and they...

I know…but your freezer could be full of them…looks the same as a wild bird…just a hypothetical. But I just called MN DNR, she laughed…it is the possession limit from each state you hunted, which makes complete sense. And if you have birds from a preserve, have a receipt verifying your...

Again, what about preserves? In MN, seasons go from 9/1-4/1? No limits, no license…have the owner write a note explaining things? 😝. Some people eat a lot of wild game, by choice…I’m not judging them if that’s their choice, and they harvest lots of game…protein is protein, some is better than...