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Same here. I've cut open and weighed quite a few shot charges. Off the top of my head- Remington, Federal, Winchester, Kent, B & P, Fiocchi, and Hevi. 12, 16, 20, and 28 ga. With the exception of Hevi, the shot charges have all been right on, or just a hair above or below. With Hevi, you can...

I hunted around Pierre last season, and again this season, all public. Didn't really hunt close to town, mostly 30 to 45 min away, to the north, northeast, and east. Pretty good numbers of birds last year, and this year there was a very noticeable jump in numbers. Private land around there...

Same for me. Having the safety off prior to the gun mount would be a hindrance for me since switching the safety off is part of the motion of mounting the gun. Doing it that way doesn't slow me down even a tiny bit.

Same here. It's mind-boggling to me that there are people that do this.

You forgot a very important one from the world according to Goose........don't play grab-ass!! :LOL:

If you really want to get into them, I'd drive the extra 3-4 hours to east-central New Mexico. NM has a 4-day small game license for $33, and tons of public land. I tried the CNG for a day on my first trip to Kansas back in '18 or '19. Didn't find any scaled quail (we call them blue quail in...

34 would've been even better.

Nice report, thanks!

Sounds like a sharptail to me. I often think that sharptails look like a bowling pin in flight......a horizontal bowling pin, kinda chunky at the back, with a long neck when viewed from the side.

Nice report and great pics, thanks for sharing!

Yeah it's a bummer that mine picked my favorite pheasant shell to be finicky with. But now I just stick with shooting the Federals in the Sweet 16, and the Golden Pheasants in my 1100.

I got mine not long after they came out, bought it at the Cabela's in Mitchell, SD in Nov of '17. They had 3 to pick from and I was lucky and got one with very nice wood. It's been my #1 upland gun since I got it, and I've used it a lot. Overall, I've been very happy with it. Very light, and a...

Very sorry for your loss.

Yeah it's spelled out pretty clearly that PLOTS and NDGFP WMA's are the two types that are off-limits to non-residents the first week.

Good luck tomorrow Greg, let us know how it goes! The wife and I will be hitting the road in the morning, start hunting on Wednesday. (Non-residents can't hunt PLOTS the first week, but we spend a good bit of time up there chasing sharpies and huns in Sept, so we know a few WPA's and state...

I couldn't agree more. Can't stand it when guys hold up birds for the camera that are clearly still alive. Show some respect and dispatch the bird immediately.

If you gotta use non-toxic, those steel #2 duck loads should be pretty decent. I shoot bismuth when I have to use non-toxic, but if I was gonna use steel I wouldn't go smaller than #2 and I'd want 1 & 1/4 oz.

Thanks for the report. We're heading that way in a few days. Instead of hunting the opener, we decided to move our trip back a week this year, hoping for cooler weather. Looks like that'll be the case, the forecast is showing lower temps after Wed/Thur.

Good plan. I'm sure you'll have a great time, SD is a great place.

The 3" steel 4's will work ok for pheasant. I like bismuth for non-tox. I used a 16ga handload last year of 1 & 1/8 oz bismuth 5's at around 1250 fps, and it worked great. I've also used the Kent bismuth 1oz 5's. I've shot a lot of bismuth the past few years, and for me it's almost as good as...