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Merry Christmas from P.O.L. That's 10 mo Parker on the left and 13 yr Cody on the right. This is our 22nd annual labs Xmas card thanks to my graphic artist wife Karen and her photoshop skill. I hope that all of you and your families have a great holiday season and can get out in the field...

I'm looking for help from this fine group since I lost my notes. I was keeping track whenever someone mentioned a light over/under but misplaced them. I shoot sporting clays, trap and skeet with a couple of 12 GA Browning Citoris that are pretty heavy to drag around a pheasant field. For that...

While following my 9 mo. old lab pup through the fields on Friday and Saturday I got to thinking about two questions (besides when are we going to see more birds) 1. What do you consider the ideal quartering range from you in yards and why? I'm thinking that 10-15 yards seems ideal if I can...

While waiting for me to slip/slide my way from Yuma up to Holyoke on Saturday morning, Jason was talking to a Holyoke area farmer. He advised us to hunt north of Hwy 6 as there had been a nasty hail storm in the early summer that hammered the young birds south of the highway. Do any of you...

I have never hunted in winds as bad as Saturday around Holyoke. I lost count of how many times my hat flew off-even had my lab pup Parker retrieve it for me one time. I had stayed overnight at the Harvest Hotel in Yuma (great place) after hunting with some other friends on private ground...

This is a little late but I wanted to thank the folks around Mitchell, SD for their hospitality. My 9 mo. old yellow pointing lab pup, Parker, and I joined 6 friends for a 4 day pheasant hunt covering the weekend of Oct. 29. We stayed in Mitchell and hunted a combination of private land, WIA...

I'll remember Friday forever. I was invited out for some complimentary sporting clays and an afternoon pen-raised hunt at Quail Run Sports in Elizabeth, CO by some past business friends. Since it would be a short hunt, I decided to give my 12 year old lab Cody a day in the field without his...

We had a scare last night. While reading in bed I heard a repetitive thumping sound coming from my two year old lab sleeping on his dog bed alongside our bed. At first I thought he was having a dream but when I leaned over to look I saw that he was having some kind of seizure. We had a lab...

Forum member SIGAV8R met me and my labs Cody and Logan at the Pepper Pod early Tuesday for a trip out I-76. Steve is new to pheasant hunting this year and has been avidly following the forum. He teamed up with GrouchOldDude earlier this year at Rocky Mountain Roosters. For a new bird hunter...

While I was shoveling snow in Aurora this morning I was wishing I was out hunting. Based on the predictions, we postponed our hunt until Saturday---and as of a few minutes ago, now until Sunday. It looks like Homeboy confirmed how bad the conditions were today--whiteouts, roads closed, big...

I met up with Lukedog at 5:30 in Hudson Thursday to head out East for our first hunt together. Coincidence-we're both named Tom, 58, and have yellow labs under 2 that almost look like twins. We hunted along the border in both CO and NE and had a fun day. Luke and Logan got along great and...

Does anyone know if the Yuma/Holyoke area got any moisture in the last few days? I saw one forecast that said 20% chance of snow for Friday/Saturday. It sure has been dry out there and tough on the dogs' smellers. Thanks, PairOfLabs

I've got weekday hunting flexibility since I'm unemployed/semi-retired/retired (not exactly sure which yet). If anyone has some similar weekday flexibility and wants to partner up to split gas or meet out east, send me a PM. I try to keep the weekends open for my non-hunting wife but could also...

Just last week I was reading in Pheasants Forever about a new wheat harvesting technique that left longer stubble than the typical 10" or so length that I have been used to. Coincidentally, while hunting in the Holyoke area this past Sunday, I found several fields that had been harvested this...

Hey Engpointerman, You've been baling cornstalks lately. I'm not sure if I just wasn't paying attention in the last few years but this year I've seen many more farmers baling cornstalks. Is this a new farming strategy? Did some new equipment make this more economical? What are some of the...

There is a reddish grass found in many CRP areas and that is also favored by Pheasants Forever in some of their sponsored habitat areas. I've seen it in heights from 18" to almost 5 feet and it seems to provide excellent cover for the birds. Does anyone know the name of this grass so I can...

Check out the picture posted by hen,hen,Rooster on the thread Losing Birds. He and I hooked up Wednesday for a great hunt in Eastern CO. The first pass through the field at -10 while wearing ski goggles was a first for us both-actually only my fingers got cold. After that first pass, and two...

I often hunt with just one partner and my two close working labs. For CO walk-in properties we try to target center pivot corners with good cover or smaller CRP plots, or cedar shelter belts or draws if we can find them. There are not very many small areas other than the center pivot corners...