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I agree that hunting has little to no impact on pheasant numbers. I think you're off base with your russian olive comment. Wildlife agencies planted russian olives all over the midwest back in the day. There's no evidence they improved winter survival. They spread like wildfire and are...

If you think corn acreage hasn't substantially increased you're misreading the graph. That graph is in 1,000 acre increments. If the average goes up by 5,000 in the next decade, that would equal 5 million additional acres. The Renewable fuel standard went into effect in 2005, but was...

I grew up with goldens and I've hunted over numerous goldens. They are good dogs, but they have drawbacks just like everything. Even if you keep their coat short, they get burs worse than a lab. My goldens couldn't handle cold water as well as labs I hunted with....but I've heard from other...

Those shallow ponds sound like seasonal wetlands. If you're enrolled in a wetland easement you should check the rules of the easement before you start an activity. The easiest thing to do is plant barnyard grass (wild millet). It's native and the pheasants eat it. It thrives in seasonal...

When I was younger I would take my uncles dog hunting all the time. I never had a problem, that dog listened to me better then my uncle anyways. My old dog was a great pheasant hunter and a mutt. I let my uncle use him whenever he wanted. I also let some good friends take him a few times...

I do the same thing. I never talk at all. I've trained my dog based on hand signals....If I need him to look at me I'll vibrate him then hand signal his recall command. I'll make him heel if we are getting close to good cover etc. All non-verbal. I think you may be hunting in an area of...

Well guys....I think it's pretty much over in the areas I hunt. I went out this weekend with the fresh snow thinking it was going to be really good. I hunted my best public spots Saturday with my girlfriend all day and did not get many opportunities. I think we flushed around 45 pheasants out...

A5's report is very accurate. I wouldn't trust any ice you find this weekend. It was all open water this Sunday, even on very small wetlands.

That's possible. WIA's and CREP are private land open to public hunting. I believe if they hay over a certain percentage of it they get less money from the state. These lands are definitely hayed more than game production areas or WPA's. However, haying is still used as a management tool...

They subcontract that out to a local farmer. However, McFarmer is right. Unless the state agency is being strong armed into over haying their public ground (which could be possible) it's a management decision, and probably a good one. There's a good chance the drought gave land managers the...

That's a common management practice when the stand of vegetation is so poor it's just easier to start over. Once you get a solid seed bank of smooth brome you're pretty much screwed, no matter what you do. If you farm it for a couple years, the last year being beans, it destroys the seed bank...

I locked my keys in my car once while bowhunting in SW MN, in December, in the middle of no where on a Wednesday. Luckily the WMA parking lot had posts with wire fencing. I unwound the wire on a strand from multiple posts so it was long enough to reach my vehicle, then popped the lock through...

Interesting. I've been giving myself fits this year because I keep crippling birds that are going straight away. Every time I shoot at those birds its seems like one leg drops, second shot other leg drops, but they don't come down. I thought I was shooting low but maybe I'm just not getting...

I've hunted Southern MN many many times during the deer season. It's almost comical how predictable deer hunters are. If there are a decent amount of trees there will be deer hunters all over. If there aren't any trees you probably won't see any, regardless of the deer numbers on the piece of...

Yes you can. The 500 foot rule does not apply on public land or when on water. However, have common courtesy. There's a WMA I hunted over the years that had allot of pheasants 80-100 yards from someone's house. I passed up allot of shots because the birds flew towards the house or the house...

I live in South Dakota and it happens just as much here in the area I hunt. If you hunt within an hour and a half from Sioux Falls it's just like MN.

Really? Did you hunt between 2003-2009? I had many days during that time period where I'd flush 50-100 birds a day in MN. I had spots on public that would be a solid 50 bird flush every time I walked it as long as no one had hunted it for a few days. My party shot limits almost every time we...

I created my profile just so I could respond to this post. I'm a longtime MN pheasant hunter who became a South Dakota resident before last season. I had a good year last year hunting mostly public, however, I heard guys say it was the best they had ever seen it in the area I hunt. I wasn't...