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Forgot to snap a photo but the assumed perpetrator tried to pull the same escape route today when I was out with my dad and he stopped the cackling on his first shot.

Nearing the end of the second public area of the day on Sunday I had seen 7 hens in about 4 hours of walking. The dog and I were both ready to call it a day but I know that a small draw I could swing by in the way out often holds birds on windy days. Sure enough, Rusty starts tracking a...

I've been out 10 or 11 days so far, walking 1.5-4.5 hours depending on how hot it was or if I had my limit. Somehow I have managed to bag a lot of birds, all but one of which were on public, even walking fields that had already been hunted that day. I have my dog to thank for this, he's nuts...

I always have an ample supple of 2 3/4" lead with 1 1/4oz of 5 shot and 2 3/4" bismuth with 1 1/4oz of 4 shot. That way I'm covered for public, private, and waterfowl. Bismuth 4s are about the same as lead 5s in pellet count/energy and both shells run about 1350fps. The lead patterns better...

I second 'the most hunters I've ever seen' comment. I waited until 10 am on Saturday to hunt a small public parcel that another guy was finishing up. There was enough room for both of us to hunt starting at 8am but I was having fun counting trucks in the public areas(28 between three 200ish...

Having Mondays off, with pheasant opener fast approaching here in Iowa, I figured it was time to knock the rust off of Rusty. I went to a local marsh hoping to work some pheasants and maybe jump a few ducks. Seven roosters and five hens in two hours was more than I could of hoped for, most...

Hunting a favorite public marsh and the dog was working a scent back towards me so I stopped and he locked up about 15ft in front of me. When I looked down, a scraggly rooster burst from my feet and flew a very tight loop around me. I waited as long as I could so my modified choke would have...

As a 30 year old guy who has hunted pheasants since I could follow my father's boot tracks in the snow I am amazed at the resurgence of quail. I grew up in NW Scott county and hunted primarily private ground in the surrounding counties. I never encountered wild quail on any private or public...

Last night I picked up a pair of muck wetland boots because I was tired of wet feet. Both my danners and redwings are no longer water proof and I thought a pair of rubber boots would fill a need for me in the wetter areas I pheasant hunt. I was wrong, within the first hour both boots were full...

This past Saturday was shotgun opener for deer here in Iowa, so public ground can turn into a bit of mess as I'm sure most of you know. I decided to check a large public area (Lost Grove Lake) near Davenport to see if any of the areas were free of deer hunters and I was lucky to get a large...

I've noticed my vizsla locks up tight on roosters but he seems a bit playful when tracking and pointing hens with a little extra wiggle In his tail. I think it is because he was raised around laying hens that he would pin down and lick into submission to the point that they would just crouch...

Yesterday was the final hunt of the season for me and there was a unique finish to say the least. I was hunting a roadside ditch/creek that always has birds but they are very skittish and I basically have to start the hunt exactly where they are roosting or they flush whenever I get within...