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I'm trying to put together a group hunt for sometime this year in SD. I see a bunch of place advertised, "best hunting in SD". Come hunt on our 3500 acre farm and experience pheasant hunting like you have never seen. Now I understand that SD had birds no doubt. But, I simply cannot imagine...

Think I'll head SW and hit some new areas on Saturday. May be able to get out one more time after that before the early season closes. Sure is fun. Even though they are far and few between, when you get one pointed it's magic!

Don't think there is a need to go back to area I hunted yesterday. I feel fairly confident in saying that the two very large pastures I hunted yesterday are chicken free zones. Bob and Obie left no rock unturned and no hillside unhunted. They ran the entire half sections of ground inch by...

Guy at work says "hey, I have this little gun you need". So I tell him sure bring it in I'll look at it. He brings in a little 20 guage SxS with 26 inch tubes choked mod and IC. Weighs maybe 5lbs. Its a Richland, nothing fancy but in really nice shape, double triggers. Figure for 250...

Last year was the first year in over 20 years that I hunted early season chickens. When I was much younger I had a little EP female that I hunted with quite a bit and used to shoot a few chicken over her when the early season first started. Last year I had some points but none held. Today I...

Sitting in the dining room this afternoon talking to my wife and mother in law and the wife says "hey theres a pheasant in the back yard!" Sure enough a very young rooster is strolling through the back yard eating bugs and stuff. He parks himself under one of my big bushes and just hangs out...

Sounds funny to think about winter right now with some of the warmest temps of the year upon us but I hate to put things off. So, yesterday I ordered 3 Hound Heaters from the Hound Heater company in MN. Anyway, while talking with the owner on the phone I asked how warm these would keep my...

A little more than 2 months out for the early chicken season. I'm getting anxious. Don't know how it's gonna be but I do know one thing. I will be watching pointers running big across the flint hills! I can't wait for some cool temps and the box loaded in the back of the truck! Got a few...

This dog will be 2 in August. I really hate to say that he is a started dog because I don't feel that he really is. He needs a bunch more wild bird contacts. He does however point pigeons and will do so until they are flushed. He has been hunted, is broke to the gun, has started whoa...

I'm already planning hunting trips in my head. Guess I better start writing some of this down so I don't forget. I've been thinking lately about places I have seen birds at and places I've passed where there should have been birds at. Last year opening day I went to SE KS. Never even saw A...

Normally this time of year I have quail whistleing around the place. Granted not a ton of them but anywhere from 3-6 males from different locations. Haven't heard a one yet. I sure hope those cold days with deep snow didn't do them in. I have one nice covey that hardly ever stays on my land...

The dreams of having a full on flight pen have come to an end for this year I do believe. Sometime back I ordered "Wing and Shot" on DVD. I saw that Whele had a rather large recall pen he used. Not sure of the demensions on the one he had. I was thinking of perhaps building one 8'x4'x6'...

Didn't know how else to title this question. Can you whoa your pointing dog while he is out away from you a distance? I've been continueing to work on whoa and heel and just general check cord stuff because of a hawk problem I am having right now. I've never trained pointers and was just...

Lets get this summer over with! I'm ready for some pointing dog action! Had this dogs brother out today letting him run. He locked up pretty as could be out back along a fence line. Walked up to him and up comes a meadowlark. Might change his name from Rocket Bob to Meadowlark Lemon!

Only one small covey but they made it through our snows. Hopefully they are some egg laying chick hatching birds! Should have been 2 or 3 other coveys on this property but darned if Rocket Bob could find them. Found two prairie chickens as a bonus! It was good to get out looking for wild...

Has anyone flushed any coveys lately? Feeling the need to see some points on quail. Wondering if anyone has been out working dogs on birds lately. Pigeons are getting no hum.

I vote that as soon as everyone gets caught up on house work we have all put off over the hunting season that we just skip summer and go straight to September 1. Who's in?

Where is the best place to purchase or look for netting for a flight pen?

He's 14yrs and 1 month old now. He's been living inside all winter long. Has been going downhill for about a month now fairly rapidly. I have been putting off the inevitable. I think this evening is the right time to have him cross over the bridge and join a few of my other dogs who are...

As soon as this muck clears up some I'm gonna get out and do some dog work. Kind of excited for next year already! Hope to get Obie backing and steady to wing and hope to get Bob starting to use his nose more. He is horrible about sight pointing. Blaming it all on the bird feeders...