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My younger son and I made it out this morning for our final hunt of this season. We hit some private ground that we hunted a couple of weeks ago and had a pretty good day ending with 4 birds and a couple of misses. We had some birds flushing wild but the majority held super tight and the dogs...

I was talking to my sister in law at Christmas and she mentioned that she grew up on a farm in Carroll county Iowa and her dad owned a ton of farm ground, so my natural instinct kicked in and I asked if they had any pheasant ground. She said they did, then my brother in law called her dad and...

I’m curious to get anyone else’s opinion on IHAP properties. I try to hunt 3-4 new IHAP spots each season. I hunt mostly N. Central Iowa and my luck has been sporadic at best. I’ve never hunted any of them early in the season so wondering if maybe they get pounded early on. I’ve never shot...

It seemed to happen with my female ESS yesterday. This is her 2nd full season and I was getting a little concerned with her figuring out the wild rooster game. She's been great after the shot finding and retrieving birds, and locating cripples that would have normally been lost birds, and that...

I'm curious what others consider an acceptable loss rate, and what you actually count as a lost bird. Obviously we don't want to lose any birds, but it happens. This season I lost 3 of 25 birds for a loss percentage of 12%. These are birds that were knocked down, marked, but the dogs couldn't...

I just cleaned a rooster I shot yesterday and noticed a hard lump on one of the breast halves. I cut it open and out popped the lump of what I can only assume were old feathers and rotten flesh. It smelled horrible but was contained to that one area. Has anyone seen anything like this? The...