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    Turn out the lights

    My wife likes to do dog agility and so do I. So we did some trials on weekends and hunted/hiked during the week. Started in MT/ND on pheasants until I fell in a badger hole and had to miss Nebraska. The travel trailer is a way better way to go than motels
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    Land prices.

    Well I can’t comment about land cost in the lower 48 I have just noticed something of interest. Traveling through northern Alberta where they grow a lot of wheat I see massive areas where they are clearing forests to make wheat fields. I mean the amount of effort, time and money being put in...
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    Drought

    I left GreatFalls Tuesday and people were golfing,mid 60s. NOw at fort St. John and still very little snow. Gonna be a real bad fire year I am afraid.
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    Turn out the lights

    48 years and counting, if we make it to 50 she says I can maybe get off probation.
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    Turn out the lights

    Well I tried the desert quail thing this year. It was pleasant walking and I managed to scratch out a few. My pheasant dogs work too close to be really effective and at 72 I can’t run like I used to, but still it was fun and I will try it again next year. For some stupid reason I am heading home...
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    At what point do you retire your dog?

    I got birds over my 15 year old this year, short walks in moderate cover. My 11 year old is still going strong. Now the 4 year is trying to kill me.
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    Cold Winter Nights

    I moved to Fairbanks in spring of 75. That first year it was minus 42 on Halloween and after it got seriously cold. The next year I moved to Goldstream where I was above the ice fog. About 85 I moved to the Kenai for better fishing and seldom seeing anything worse than minus 30. In the 70s and...
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    Cold Winter Nights

    My first year in AK I wintered on Badger Road outside of Fairbanks. We hit minus 60 at times that winter and the northern lights actually made noise. I still enjoy the lights.
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    Cold Winter Nights

    In Great Falls putting trailer to bed. Heading home next week, should be a cool drive.
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    Dog Dies While At Trainer

    My only experience with pro trainers is in the retrieving world. To make a living you need to train a lot of dogs. To train a lot of dogs you have to be efficient. What I have seen is that a dog that does not fit in the easily trained profile gets the short shift. The vast majority of their dogs...
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    Public land newbie

    What BB said. Every year is different but if you are going to stay in a motel book early. When I stayed in motels I often booked for the next season when I was finishing hunting the present season.
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    SDGFP cracking down on non-resident resident licensing?

    Bob has goldens, I have goldens. You don’t have a chance and besides after almost 4 months in a 20 foot travel trailer my wife wants rid of me.
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    SDGFP cracking down on non-resident resident licensing?

    WOw did I open up a can of worms. From what I gather you can be a resident of SD for tax purposes and vehicle registration for far less time than to qualify for a resident hunting license. That I can understand,AK requires you to be a resident for 1 year to get a resident fishing and hunting...
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    SDGFP cracking down on non-resident resident licensing?

    Right now I am traveling the southwest. The campgrounds have many South Dakota plates. One camper said all SD requires is for you to spend one night every 5 years in SD to be a resident. Now these people are full time RVers and are not real residents of any state. I met one couple who have lived...
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    On X question

    For what it is worth we put the ND plots maps on an I pad and use that for getting to the general area and than onx on the phone to fine tune. I would assume other states would have similar maps.
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    Little help

    It keeps getting slowly better. So I’ll stick my head in the sand and tough it out. If it is not better when I go home(Feb?) I’ll go see a Doc. I’ll have to find a new one since all my old ones have retired.
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    Little help

    Thanks guys for all your help. I’m bumbling around but have found enough birds to empty the gun a few times. They do seem to run like roosters and the dogs are doing fine flushing singles. Not quite as exciting as pheasant hunting but nice weather and plenty of country to walk. Maybe it not as...
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    Mild weather hunting

    Okay more cool data, but hasn’t convinced me to get a pointing dog yet. That said I saw some really good vizulas at an agility trial and am thinking of adding one to the household.
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    Gobsmacked on public land!!!

    Minnesota plates have a reputation for that behavior in MT and the Dakotas. I’ve never hunted in Minnesota partially because of that reason. I always figured that it had to do with the crowded conditions in Minnesota.
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    Mild weather hunting

    Now that is cool. I’ll buy lunch if you can mark the points and flushes on there.
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