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Wow!!!! This is the freaking most ridiculous thread I’ve ever seen on this forum, starting with the original post. Choose your dog, train it how you want and take it hunting! Y’all have too much time on your hands 🙌 f you got sucked into this $hit fest. Oh damn, look at me responding instead of...

I eat a bird and a side salad (or a can of corn) almost every night, especially if I’m staying / hunting longer than 5 days. Easier than worrying about getting them frozen. Plus they taste better the night they give up their existence to me 😜

Deeper snow is not a given mid Dec, but if so…. Bring snow shoes, smallest that are effective for the weight they need to suspend. You’ll be pulling them up out of heavy vegetation all day. If snow is deep enough to cover by knocking down crp/grass, look for deep cover holes (cattails/“cane”)...

I hate game farms, but joined one this year to train a pointing lab. More interesting and fun to raise them (chuckers) myself, so one and done there. Barely used it even though it only 35mins away. Plus those chuckers I raise taste pretty darn good. However, my bro-in law uses a pheasant put and...

Same same. In pickstown tonight. Heading north tomorrow, don’t know exactly where. Will be driving and scouting right after sunup. Old dog flushed a rooster other side of thorn bushes today, no shot. Young black lab pup found 2 roosters, pointed one, actually her first wild rooster point so im...

Do you smoke the meat in S. Dakota or do you bring it with you from home? I found that beer isn’t a great gift unless you know them really well since you don’t know if someone drinks or not. Once I gave a nice bottle of Crown Royal, but the farmer was in AA and while he was “thankful”, it didn’t...

Holy cow!!!! You win, no way my wife is going to bake anything for anybody, much less watch football! 😜

Leaving Saturday after Thanksgiving for a solo 2 weeks in SD, can’t wait! Taking my new pup who turned 1yr old this Thursday. She did great on a 3 day hunt opening week here in CO. The pup stays close and points ok for her age, hunted well with my bro-in laws older dogs. Quite proud of her...

Due to a shoulder procedure, I went back to shooting my 20guage Ithaca that my father got me back in 1980 (after getting it fitted). Purchased some golden pheasant loads in 5 and 6’s, but didn’t realize that they were 3” shells and my gun takes only 2 3/4”. Bought 5 boxes of the correct size...

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Young 11 month old pup did very well. Ended up with 5.

Come on , “Darknight” is a reference to Batman, and a pun on Golden hour. It was Goose trying to make a joke, one that wasn’t at anyone’s expense. Take a deep breath

Have a friend who farms Kansas, somewhere in the west. Another friend who farms Colorado, somewhere in the east. Both saw little to no birds this summer. Both just finished harvest and said they are seeing a “shit ton compared to last year”, (that’s relative, just need to forget about 15 yrs...

How much do you play fetch with her with balls/toys etc? Is she crazy about retrieving those items? If so, I’d consider stopping all retrieving with those items, but doing retrieving with frozen pheasants/ chuckers etc. And even then, don’t do to many. Do 4 or 5 retrieves and then quite when she...

I would love to borrow/rent a launcher, but I don’t know anyone that has one.

Oh yeah, not being proactive and just letting your dog suffer the consequences when there is a possible solution to a potentially lethal situation is the answer for us “woke dog owners”. 🙄 Don’t worry, dumb comments don’t offend me, but I also don’t give them a free pass.

So here’s an update and lessons learned on the past 6 months of using Chuckers and a Johnny house. #1. Chuckers recall very well to the Johnny House. I would predict that well over 75% of the non shot Chuckers returned into the pen within 24 hrs if the following was in place. A. At least 5...

Ohhhh, good idea. Thanks for suggestions. These are for hearing protection I see, I wonder if it would mess up the communication between us in the field, or if they are designed to let “normal” sounds through and block the sharp/loud retorts simulator to how they are designed for humans

My new pup seemingly hasn’t grown into her ears yet. She’s a hard charger and her floppy ears tend to “fold over”. Add this to the fact that she is a small little lab (mom was 42lbs, dad in high 50’s) who is rarely above the grass and weed seeds. This has caused 2 trips to the vet in order for...

I live pretty far from any clubs or groups that support each other and put those events on, so besides occasionally looking at their Facebook page, I’m not at all familiar with that lifestyle. My main goal is to have a good hunting companion. I have attended one Rocky Mtn training session when...