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You aren't kidding. Will post my report later, but it was darn windy. Over 40 mph gusts. 34 mph average when I checked a couple times. 13 below zero windchill when I got back to the vehicle at sunset. 16 below with the gusts. There were times when I had to lean into the wind to stay...

Great photos and awesome frame capture of that flush!

I'll echo to be careful. I walked inside cattails last Saturday, but avoided any large patches of frozen water and did not venture out to the middle water. Having said that, the middle water, after another week of cold temps can often be safer than cattails. Warm spots in cattails, out near...

I am sure there are dumps out there, whether motel or hotel. I've stayed at some chain hotels that have gone down the tube over the years (has people living there, drug trade, etc). The two motels I have stayed at multiple times in NE and NC SD are family run, clean, have game cleaning...

Great recap of the hunts. Thanks for sharing!

It looks like it has a new name, West Side Lodging, and is priced out of what most of us would pay.

I have found them in NE and EC, but they seem to be endangered in NC for some reason.

That's not too bad. Better than $100+ per night for a hotel, where you have to lug stuff a greater distance between the room and the vehicle.

Yeah, they would be great for multiple people. If it was just one weekend, it wouldn't matter as much, but I hunt 3-5 days every week in SD every January, so it adds up.

Are they in the $50-$60 range, like the motels?

I have been wondering the same. Any motels (where you drive up to your door) type arrangements near the aberdeen area?

I am fond of some good natured feather ruffling. 🦅🐓

They were in no danger of not flying away, unfortunately. Just some ruffled feathers that they recovered from, as far as I could see. Either that, or they were just dodging my pellets and changed flight patterns briefly. :-)

Hit one spot in SW and one in SC today. As was mentioned above, enough ice that I risked cattail edges in places. Saw very few birds. 3 hens and a rooster in standing corn on a WMA (rooster was a ways away before I saw him). Saw 6 hens and 2 roosters at another wma. All the birds there...

Good question. This is my least favorite time of the season. Cold enough for them to get into cattails with a skim of ice. Not cold long enough for me to go in. I will be out tomorrow too.

Fun. One of the benefits of pheasant hunting, covering so much ground and hunting different locations, is all the other wildlife we get to see.

China? 😉 They are something else. Miniature dinosaurs.

That sounds like an exciting end of day hunt! Congratulations! Those birds curving in the wind are something else. Which state? You may have had enough dogs to find birds. 👏

Maybe you are just that good? Private land does change the equation a bit.