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Agreed. Some dogs any stimulation and they will shut down, with others it is just an annoyance. I don’t know about your Pudelpointer but I have found mine to have a prey drive I couldn’t quash with an anvil. She has required more than most of the Labs I have had. She is starting to figure out...

So I will admit my father born in 1918 was a swatter delux. Rabbits, quail, pheasants often out of the car window. It’s how a grew up so of course I did it a little up into my early twenties. I have not since, killing a pheasant that my dog has tracked, pointed and retrieved is a great feeling...

It definitely depends on the dog.

So I have been a lab guy for 35 years or so. From my first to my last they got progressively better. Part was I bought and could afford a better pup, part was I learned more about dogs, and part was I trained to my expectations. So a couple years ago I switched breeds to a pointer. Big learning...

Practice with a chicken

WTF? I guy can put a post up about hunting and get fewer than ten responses. A guy puts a post up about taking a crap in the field and get 67……

I have done a similar process and it is good. Some type of juice is essential.

Spreading information about specific areas between those of us that are active on here, especially private ground probably has little effect on pressure. The thing you may not realize there are thousands of lurkers on here that never post but gather easy info. There was a post a couple years ago...

Bots don’t sleep

That was it I was trying to remember

Pheasant stuffed with cream cheese and jalapeño Jam wrapped with thick applewood bacon. Homemade crab stuffed mushrooms with real crab. Pretty good meal to watch KU smack MU.

So a few years ago on here there was a thread that talked about a similar issue. It involved the owner of a hunting operation and the fact he had a group of guys hunting one of his properties without dogs. They shot many birds that they could not recover. Eventually they reached their limits but...

15 or so years ago we had many good hunts and shot limits frequently. Hunted there 5-6 years ago and it was just ok and there were a lot of hunters for late season. All I can say is you better like gnarled cattails. There are spots there I am sure that the birds have never been shot at. Miles...

I am sure Goose has some recommendations for you…….

The first pheasant I ever shot was a hen. I was 12 years old and it was the first time my dad took me to western Kansas with his buddies. It was opening weekend and there were 7 or 8 of us and several dogs. Opening morning first field was wheat stubble. We got a few in the stubble and at the...

I am in sales and have been for a long time. Most landowners ( other than corporate) care a great deal for their land and the future of it. If they are leading out with the money, that will always draw suspicion. It needs to be more of a holistic approach of this is how we are going to do our...

I remember being in Blunt South Dakota about ten or so years ago. When yo come from out of state and only have 3-4 days the weather really doesn’t matter. One day it was about 25 degrees and the sustained winds were 30+ with 40+ gusts. The birds would get up and struggle to get altitude then...

I suspected it was sick. Damn dog will pick up anything.

A couple weeks ago my dog brought a dying snow goose back to me when I was in South Dakota. I left it for the coyotes after killing it

As I have gotten older my eyes aren’t what they were. That said I also will not shoot until I am 100% sure as killing birds isn’t as important as it once was. I know I have passed on many birds I couldn’t be sure on, particularly when the sun is in the wrong spot. I used to hunt with a guy that...