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To sum up an hour long video or a chapter of a training book, or weeks or months of training, in one paragraph. 1. Associate the collar with fun. I put the collar on at a young age, any training or hunting session. But it's not turned on for months, until all the building blocks are in place...

I'll give you my best raccoon encounter... Dog (not mine) got into it with a coon. They were really tangled, I couldn't shoot the coon without shooting the dog. I really couldn't hit the coon with the butt of my gun without hitting the dog. I was able to eventually step on the coons neck and...

Last winter I bought a Garmin Fenix 5X. I am looking for any creative ways that people use a watch or some other form of technology to help with their hunting? I currently just put it on walking activity during my hunts. Interesting to look back at it on a map after my hunt and see where...

Well if he got decapitated after his first miss 45 years ago... it'd be pretty hard to hit anything since.

I'll agree with each of you. Yes, we are dumber as in there's more people less connected to the land than there was 50 or 20 years ago. But we are certainly more advanced as hunters. For instance, I live 4-7 hours away from my various hunting places in SD and I am not going to drive there in...

I have no clue. My guess is he thought that sunrise was the start time, but I really don't know.

I can one up this for my opener... Got to a public spot early. Guy shows up at 7am, puts on his vest, grabs a gun, unloads the dog, and starts walking. I thought this is odd and illegal, but maybe he's just letting the dog burn a bit of energy for a few minutes then he'll wait a couple hours...

MN Fishing Opener is the Saturday that is 2 weeks before Memorial Day. Mothers Day is the 2nd Sunday of May. Most people always think it is Mother's Day weekend, which it is, unless Memorial Day is on May 30 or 31 and Mother's Day is on May 1 or 2.

I lived in SD 2008-2012 and MN 2013 - Present and hunt both states. For the last several years I do a few short outings a week around MN and two 3 day trips to SD, the majority all public land but there is some private. So many variables to this, but the short answer is that yes - SD is better...

I would think you're just fine. Of course there's that 1 in a million chance though.

My male lab is about 80lbs and looks muscular and healthy, I try to make sure the back ribs are always showing a bit. I think as long as they are fit, active, and in shape there is no right or wrong answer to this. Each bloodline will be a bit different. My next lab I would like to be in more...

I am sure each state is different and I can look up regulations. But is there something in regards to keeping them whole and daily limits? I am assuming that most CO's are smart enough to realize a fresh bird shot that day vs. one shot prior day(s) of the trip, but you never know.

Good time to come. You'll have a few people taking advantage of what may be a 4 day weekend for them. But you'll have even more people that aren't able to come because of family obligations. A lot of the traditional family hunts that may take place during thanksgiving are on their own land...

I'll do both with a smile on my face and thoroughly enjoy it. However if I have to choose, the thought of combines rolling in the distance and 50 degrees outside sounds more appealing than sinking through snow drifts with a stiff north wind blowing into my face and battling cold fingers or...

From talking to people in SD, it did not seem like January brought on too many SD hunters and it was even a mild January with not much snow. I would suspect the same, or even less January pressure in MN. People on this board (diehards) might hunt January, but your average hunter probably will...

And my wife complains that I'm gone too long when I leave home at 4:00-4:30am on Thursday, get to central SD by 9:00-9:30, hunt all day Thursday - Saturday, then leave SD at sunset on Saturday, back home by midnight for a full family day with our 3 young kids on Sunday before starting another...

There are a lot of variables and not an answer fits all. Type of breed? Region of country? What is the dog used to? Indoors or Outdoor dog? If you can keep them dry and out of the wind, they can withstand a lot colder temperatures than we realize, I think. I have a black lab and am much more...

I like Allen's as well. Caters to the outdoorsman. Far from 5 star, but that's not what I'm looking for when on a hunting trip. Has a bird/fish cleaning shack area. Park right outside your door. Easy, convenient, cost efficient for a hunting trip.

He doesn't follow the actual path that I walked, about half the time I'll approach it from a different angle than I walked (I like to hunt into the wind, so I usually do the drag not into the wind, then do the hunting scenario drill into the wind just like if we were hunting), other half I do it...

I rarely use live birds while training, but have done a lot with bumpers and such. I usually put some "pheasant scent" product (have no clue if it actually works or is a realistic scent?) on the bumper, attach it to a 30' check cord and drag it behind me as a zig zag through the field, then...