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My goal isn’t to spend as little $ as possible, no matter the activity, or aspect of life. But if I stayed in the nearest town that has motels, restaurants, etc, and I’m splitting a room with a pal, I’m quickly at $100/day factoring in fuel, eating dinner out, etc. so my land access is...

I’m going to Yellowknife, getting supplies, then Great Slave…I’ll spill my guts there, and befriend a Caribou…❤️

Not good!!!!!

I’m simply stating the obvious, that lots of guys routinely drop big $ to recreate, and yes, all those things can be done inexpensively as well. There’s a market for everything, including guys that want to travel to Gucci lodges and shoot released birds. To each his own! They’re not crowding...

Golfing trips, downhill skiing trips, fly-in fishing trips…nothing’s cheap…I don’t do those things, but know people who do…$1,000/day when it’s all lumped together? I suppose…travel, lodging, food/booze, green fees, lift tickets, etc, etc…

I pick up dimes, even nickels in parking lots..not Pennie’s…

The first few weeks of the season, I stay in a smallish lodge my farmer friend finished off for us last year…very nice, we do our own cooking, and don’t have to run back and forth to town(s) 20-30 miles away and stay in motels and eat out…we give him $75/nite per guy. I have land 8 miles away...

Hutts drink, big time! They LOVE their rye!

I’ve been focusing on “micro covers”, too…size of a garage, a house, a cul de sac,…anything in the middle of a picked corn field, like A5 sweet 16 is saying…control the situation, keep the birds contained…

In a perfect world you’d hunt some Milo or sorghum food plots…narrow rectangular strips, not too tall so the boys can see what’s happening…attracts the birds pretty well…good, stout cover…have one blocker at the end…lots of safety discussions about when it’s safe to shoot!

There are many Hutterite colonies in the area, including the upland colony near artesian…go ask for hunting permission, it’s a trip seeing these colonies and meeting them! Different way of life…have your boys research the hutterites…fascinating communal approach to life, very religious….if you...

Have a .22 you can bring for doing some plinking in a safe area with a backstop? They probably enjoy shooting…

If the boys enjoy the trip, come back next summer and scout for pheasant land, and head to the black hills then…more to do in the summer…canyon lake resort/motel is nice, in rapid city…trout right there in the lake, right in front of the motel!

That’s up to you, very cool area, not sure what the situation is this time of year…what’s open, etc…I associate that area with summer activities. A ranger is an ATV? I don’t think I’d be dragging that with, don’t know it’d really help with the hunting…I could be wrong! The days are...

There’s a high fence whitetail ranch north of Fedora…go up there, ask around for the exact location.. fun to see the huge bucks, and good bird area…walk some ditches there…Sodak Prairie Acres. Also, if the gang needs a different diversion, day or nite, check out the world famous corn palace in...

U can’t hunt til 10 am, after breakfast drive gravel roads in areas that have public hunting areas…WPA, GPA, CREP, etc…look for birds…it may snow soon, birds easy to spot…if you see them around, focus on those areas…they’ll hide in the cover and loaf when not out feeding…adjust your...

If no dog, hunt good looking ditches…next to picked cornfields…with cover, grass, etc, that the birds can hide in…

Do you have a dog???? Pretty important!

Good cafe in Montrose I’m told..really good. Check out public areas near Fulton, Salem, Spencer…south of I-90 as well, like Freeman…good bird #’s there, too…north of Mitchell is good…Letcher, Forestburg, Artesian, Fedora, Roswell….good cafe in Letcher…

You never know til you try! Sounds plausible. I’d base in a town like Mitchell, closer for you..,there’s a bass pro there, too. Lots of public land within 50 miles, any direction…good bird #’s…find a smallish town with public ground nearby that has a cafe…be there at 7:30 am and have...