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I hope this is an appropriate place for this question. Every year, I go for a week in late November to South Dakota, after pheasants. Some years it's shirtsleeves, some years it's coveralls; I generally can get comfortable from head to toe--with the grating exception of hands. Partly it's my age...

This is my sixth year hunting in South Dakota, each time flying out from North Carolina; this was the best. With my son-in-law and the best man from his wedding (who had never shot at a live bird before) we hunted five days, all but one of them without a dog, and were delighted to put 26 birds...

Time, perhaps, for a report from the North Carolina contingent--those without dogs, without a guide, without a put-and-take site. We just showed up and walked: CRP, WPA--and ditches. Lots of ditches: One day I measured 8 miles by mid-afternoon. We were based in the Platte/Kimball area...

We are coming out from sunny, 56 degree North Carolina later this week to hunt; looks like we drew the cold card this year...A question: I have my eye on an abandoned RR right of way, which looks good on the topo, and also to a friend who was out there last year but did not hunt it. Are such...

I'm coming to South Dakota Dec. 1, Charles Mix County, with my son-in-law and daughter. Three days to hunt. None of us has a lot of experience with pheasants; we came last year to the same area, and because some plans on private land went awry, wound up trying to hunt ROWs. It didn't go very...

Those with long memories will recall my daughter, two sons-in-law and I went naively out to South Dakota from North Carolina, last fall. In the end, we had a very good time, hunting only public land and a few places we were able to acquire by knocking on doors. My daughter shot her very first...

Coming to SD to hunt next week; this is our first encounter with steel shot, not being waterfowlers. I know that in Public and waterfowl areas, we have to use steel; but given that we are planning to also hunt WIA and other areas where lead is permitted, do we have to scrupulously "strip"...

We've finally worked out the dates, planes, guns, shells, clothes, cars, motels, and four of us--two sons-in-law, one daughter, and me--are off to Wagner, a week from tomorrow. We have never hunted SD, never hunted with a dog, seldom hunted when it wasn't 'way below freezing and snow up to at...

I've hunted pheasants the past several years in Nebraska, where hunting road rights-of-way is illegal; I am coming from North Carolina, where the same is true. This year I'm coming to South Dakota, and reading the regs, it appears that if you follow some prescribed rules, it's an OK practice...

...Mainly because I can't feel my finger. I'm speaking of my trigger finger, and my trigger. We tend to hunt Nebraska in early to mid December, and it's cold as a stepmother's kiss by then, at least for guys from North Carolina. I wear fleece gloves, with a mitten over them that can be pulled...

Two years ago I was in Easter, TX for opening day; that evening watching TV, I saw a technique new to me (but then, pheasant hunting itself is new to me). These folks had a 100 foot-long clothesline, stretched between two of them, hunting CRP land. The idea was to flush the birds between the...

Hello, pheasant hunters! I'm an aging white male, been hunting since I was five, in the Southeastern states, doves, quail (gone with the wind, alas) grouse and turkeys; about six years ago, I was blessed to find a friend in NE who took me pheasant hunting, in the snow, in the cold, in the wind...