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  1. A5 Sweet 16

    Tell SD What You Think!!

    Here's your chance! This article has a link to the 2024-28 report & an address to email your comments. https://www.keloland.com/news/capitol-news-bureau/sdgfp-seeks-publics-input-on-a-pheasant-action-plan/
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    New rule regarding versatile

    Since guys like us love regulation, can we get a new rule for this site? In order to use the term versatile, the context must be defined. If just talking about something that's versatile, by Webster's definition, you just say versatile. eg: My dog can hunt pheasants, speak 3 Hmong dialects, &...
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    PF Goes Pen-Reared....Again!!

    Remy will love this, as it has been recently discussed in the "How many shells?" thread. The latest PF Journal contains a great big article on habitat for wild pheasants, a good article adamant that stocking flare nares does nothing to benefit a wild pheasant population, & a good article...
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    Season Synopsis

    Technically there are a few hours left, but for me & Ace, the season ended Sunday. (He doesn't know yet.🙄) My 43rd pheasant season...done. Each one is fantastic in its own ways, but in terms of number of hunts, bird numbers (both alive & dead), & amount of time/effort required to shoot a couple...
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    Steel/bismuth for pheasants

    Many of you have read this from me before. Some haven't. With bismuth, go 1 shot size larger than you'd use with lead. With steel, go 3 sizes bigger than lead. For pheasants, shoot a large enough payload through a gun/choke combo that will give you at LEAST 90-100 pellets evenly distributed...
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    Great Sunday hunt

    So fantastic habitat got a bunch of pheasants through winter last year, such that this has been an awfully good season, at least for me. Ace & I caught up with this yellow dog & her boy for a private land hunt on Sunday. It was about 15 degrees with a 30 mph wind, & we were only in about 5" of...
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    Weird things pheasants do

    So lately I've seen discussions about where/when pheasants will run, when they'll flush, how often they dump mud, etc. But what are some of the weirdest, most surprising things you've seen them do? 2 years ago, a friend, our 2 dogs, & I were walking the edge of a slough on a WPA. He was on the...
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    Choke Change

    Conditions being what they are, medium to long flushes are more common than usual. Ace recommended I switch from my typical MOD to FULL this past weekend to put another pellet or 2 in the long ones. As usual, he was right. Always trust your pheasant dog.
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    Coconut Oil - removes cockleburs!

    My springer Ace gets cockleburs (and similar sticker varieties) in his arm pits. They work themselves way up tight to the skin. Ace tells me in no uncertain terms that it's quite sensitive up there, especially after being chafed by stickers for awhile. Funny he never complains while we're...
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    What is Perfect Point of Impact??

    I see things about shooting big game at various angles, mostly as it relates to putting a bullet or arrow through an animal's vitals in the most effective way. But what about a pheasant? Let's assume the densest part of your shotgun pattern is pretty evenly distributed throughout a 30" circle...
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    Early season thoughts

    So far, public land, specifically WPAs in eastern SD, have been very good to me & Ace mid to late afternoon. We've started our hunting between 2:00 & 4:30. The longest we hunted was 2 hrs, but that day we were completely surrounded by standing corn. The other days, hunts were significantly...
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    Salt Creek Bismuth??

    I'd really, really like to try Salt Creek Custom Ammunition, who will not only do #4 bismuth in 16 gauge, but will do a true 1-1/8 oz load (as opposed to Hevi's version that weighs barely over an ounce). But Salt Creek's prices are unjustifiable for me. A strong 50% more than Boss. Has anyone...
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    More pheasants than ever before!!

    So for the past 16 years, I've been regularly traveling the same 96-minute route between Sioux Falls & Okoboji, IA. I've seen more pheasants, adults & chicks, this summer than ever before along that route. Conditions in eastern SD were very similar last winter & are very similar now. So...
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    Pen-Reared Pseudo Roosters

    Has anyone ever heard discussion about how many disgusting, inferior pen-reared pheasants are shot each year in Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, New Hampshire, or Florida? Or is South Dakota pretty much the only state anyone cares about?
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    Late Season Report - We're Nearing the End

    I hope this post encourages some of you to get out & hunt in the last couple weeks of the season. There are definitely plenty of pheasants out there, & since it looks like it could turn into a long winter for them, as many roosters need to be shot as possible to take a little pressure off the...
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    Non-toxic shot

    Here's a table straight from the GF&P website that clears it up pretty well. It's under the General Hunting/Fishing License Information tab right here. https://gfp.sd.gov/faq/
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    End of October report

    So far, my little part of the world is looking really good. Most of the crops are out where we've hunted. Ace & I have been finding good numbers of pheasants on public land & not working very hard to get 2 or 3. Warm weather has made it necessary to try to hunt near standing water as much as...
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    Post Your Residents' Weekend Report Here!

    Well, Ace & I wouldn't be Ace & I if we didn't hunt Residents' Weekend, so we did. Ace is 3-1/2 now & starting his 4th season. My 42nd season. I was very happy with the number of pheasants we saw. Cover at the 2 spots we hunted was pheznomenal. Sloughs in the area are pretty dry. Beans are...
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    Bismuth Fragmentation

    Again I find myself considering pheasant death. This time, it's bismuth shot, specifically. I've shot a lot of bismuth & commonly find fragmented pellets in birds. To me, that proves the pellet made it to the bird & fragmented on impact. Had it fragmented in the barrel/choke, it would've...
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    Non-toxic shot: The whole truth

    I call it the truth, but it's really just my opinion, based on something like 30 years of having to shoot non-toxic shot at pheasants on public land. For starters, I still do, & will continue to shoot lead whenever possible. It's the best bang for the buck. When first confronted with the need...
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