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I've done a lot of reading since I've been on my own to figure out fixes without the factory warranty support. I think the Remington troubles are limited to the years they were owned by an non-industry investors group, Cerberus. This would be 2007-2020. They had the most serious financial...

If you hunt opener, you will find some of the pheasants that are first year wild birds that are as dumb and hold as bad a pen raised do for the first couple days. Both can learn wild evasion techniques in just a couple hunting encounters. They are mixed in with 2nd year birds and within a few...

OK, I can, but I can't. We go to the Mellette, SD volunteer fireman's banquet every pheasant opener. Tickets are $100 and 1 in 10 tickets win a gun. Won a Remington 1187 synthetic 12ga auto in my 5th year buying a ticket in 2015. Started jamming after 50 shells and never stopped no matter what...

Had a reload that did that in a Benelli auto that must have been very light on powder. We all heard the ploop sound except for the shooter who fired off again at the flock of pheasants we were pounding away at. It had ejected the casing but left the wad in the barrel so the second shot pushed it...

Saw that episode too. Based on how they explained it in the show I went and tracked it on maps and hunting atlases. They hit public land that was just as accessible from a road. They also hit a field run by a hunting lodge it looks like. There's not that many flat spots of any size within boat...

They were already at an estimated 1 million birds by 1924 so they had a widespread, reproducing population. They had a peak at 12 million in 1935/36 and then down to 3 million in 37 so there must have been one large winterkill in that record cold. The numbers reached their peak of 16 million in...

3 pairs released in 1908 and 48 pairs in 1911 (shipped in from Grant's Pass, OR farm) near Redfield around 44.92375607583157, -98.49543882390094 as near as it has been described to me. I stay in Ashton about 5 miles north of there and old timers said they were absolutes about predator control...

Here's how I see they break down: Dude Ranches- Deluxe packages for mostly easterners that might include a stop at the Aberdeen western wear store when they get off the plane. Wife heads to the winery tour while the hunter joins 20 other guests for the hunt. These are done on isolated food...

I think 100mi avg/per day is accurate but this is road hunting where we are driving about 5-10 miles to one of these areas. Then we go slow around the best spots in the area until we see a bird or a good ditch to try under the conditions. I would say that happens 15-20 times a day so about every...

Big increase in bird numbers everywhere we went from Sat-Wed for the NR opener. Limits every day for 14 hunters in 5 vehicles, 3 groups without dogs. We got our limits by driving 25mph from spot to spot that had weedy ditches in front of standing corn and/or grass sloughs. Stopped when we saw...

Not crazy, completely respectable. Two trucks with a posse in the bed of each one, drop ball hitches and a 100ft of barbed wire between them roaring across a 10 acre dry slough- that's crazy.

You asked and it's what comes to my mind when someone says "scouting" so here goes this year's edition of road hunting basics- If you catch them out in the open on the road up ahead, stop far away and let them get into the ditch. Mark where they duck into the weeds and drive up as close to...

Any dew in the morning will give them enough water for the day just by taking it off the grass. So you can have dry soil conditions but if the weather is humid enough, they will be in their normal locations. If there has been extended drought, then they may have migrated over the summer to water...

Back pain seems to last forever with no hope in sight but keep working on it and it will get better. It's such a depressing condition when you are in the middle of it with no hope in sight. It's messes with you more than any of the other ailments and I've seen it over and over. Mental stress is...

Customer combiner we hunt with had been done for beans in Aberdeen to Redfield area as of Oct 1 and was on corn. There's no significant rain in the forecast but even if it did, it would dry fast enough to get back in the fields right away. I would guess most will see 50% corn gone for...

My dad and grandpa were scouting and saw a lot of birds lifting up out of a deep waterway draw beside the road near a farmers house. They had to beg for permission to hunt from the farmer as he usually didn't give access but he agreed this time. They walked back to the draw and started slowly...

Items for the hunt that are always forgotten and nice to have spares- game shears, choke wrenches (engraving option), bore cleaning snake, solar charged battery bank for phone.

"Wild strain" genetics is an invention of breeders, game farms and government agencies. Wild captured birds that are bred don't produce chicks that survive in the wild after being pen raised any better than generations of farmed birds. Chicks learn survival skills from the hen. If you release a...

Local report on Sunday said the James River just went back into it's banks last week after flooding out since May due to ND snows and rain last spring. Lots of local heavy rains and flooding a couple times early in the summer so sites nearby the river are likely going to be soft or hard to get...

Opener week for me since I hunt slow and stupid and that's how I like my birds. But that honestly lasts until about Sunday afternoon until they all get shot at one time then are permanently edumacted to stay off the roads. After that I am counting on large numbers of birds to stumble into for...