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I tried Gallaprant (arthritis meds) in Aug/Sept for a month and I didn't really notice any help from it, although at that point she was not having the issues she is now. What else can they prescribe? Rimadyl? I've used that in the past for inflammation after an injury.

I usually post my results at the end of the MN thread. Last year was my best season since 2018.

My 13.5 year old yellow lab has taken a turn for the worse in the past week. She is becoming wobbly and unbalanced on her feet. It might be the arthritis they diagnosed this summer in her back legs. I don't know if she's going to be able to hunt this season with the current condition now.

People get sick from food borne illness by the thousands in this country every day. If you've ever had a case of it from salmonella, e-coli, listeria, staph, or norovirus, you'd know it. And after an experience from it, you'd probably never forget it. I certainly haven't. Which is why I...

Why can't you hang a deer, exactly? I hang every single one I shoot after I field dress it. Get a rope and tie it up. Been doing it for 31 years.

I'm guessing the majority of you don't deer hunt. Imagine leaving the guts in a deer and hanging it like that.

50 degrees is the mark at which bacteria starts to grow exponentially. Below that its still pretty safe from a food borne illness stand point.

Good call charging up the jumper pack. I have two of them I should check on.

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As long as you cook them properly, you should kill any pathogens or bacteria. Treat it like chicken; do not undercook it. I am not willing to risk that so I clean mine after I'm done, vacuum seal them, and then put them in the freezer. It's more about what your personal level of risk is here...

My dog turns 14 in February. I still intend to hunt her this season. She is in pretty good shape for a 13.5 year old yellow lab. I go slower, give her multiple days of rest in between hunts, and nothing over 50 degrees.

I made an attempt to pick mine up when I was waterfowl hunting in a stationary location. It was pretty easy to just grab them while they were floating on the surface of the water. Same when I'm deer and turkey hunting, although I don't go through much ammo targeting them. It's hard to do it...

Tons of it where I hunt. In fact there's still some beans too.

No bells for this guy. All it does is tip off every bird in the county that you're coming. Silence is deadly. FYI I hunt with a lab/flusher but I keep her within shotgun range.

My Grandfather had to hang it up due to his inability to walk over uneven terrain a few years before he died. We tried to persuade him to post and he wasn't having it. He was still able to deer hunt a couple years from a ground blind after he stopped bird hunting.

I can relate to this. Seems to be a common theme among the hunting realm.

That's actually not far from the truth where I hunt. A number of them leave their fields up all winter. Don't ask me why

I agree, the best way to find good habitat and populations of birds is doing it with your own truck, eyes, and legs. But all that takes time and energy, something very few have the will power for these days.

Nothing to see north of 94. Keep heading south. 😬

You've already got a MN license and have harvested birds; why bother with an overpriced nonresident license to drive hours and fight more crowds of hunters? I'd keep striking that MN iron while it was hot.