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1 year old. She will be fine, keep getting her on birds.

Dang, you walked 9 miles and saw 5 pheasants? With that few birds it is surprising they have an open season on them. I am not sure I would have the heart to shoot them if there were that few of them around....I wouldn't if their numbers were that few here. Poor habitat I am asuming.

-12 now, the 2nd gun deer season started yesterday, those boys have snow and cold to deal with.

Another 4" or so last night into this morning.

Nice pic. Sounds like you have the birds on the extreme edge of the pattern. I had usually had a very similar history with my shot birds, very few shot in them. But this season, most everything has been peppered pretty well. I am assuming I am getting the birds better centered in the pattern...

Move the decimal left one digit and we are just a bit cooler than that presently. Either tempature, I am not hunting. Down to 4 now.

That sounds like a good plan...if they would be selling to individuals, that is where things would get blurry in my eyes. Nice the SD GFP has a budget that allows for land purchases. Guessing the money was was in the easements not so much for the actual land sale. It would be like the state...

A bit different than PFs business plan.

Seems odd DU would sell a parcel. Maybe if was gifed to them, and it just didn't fit into waterfowl habitat. Hope they in turn bought a parcel that was good food their (the ducks) purpose.

Sunday morning it will be brisk in Iowa.

With the cold temps that are coming along with this snow cover, I could be done already. I ready hate getting them stirred-up and kicked out of their roost in these kind of conditions.

Only an inch. In area that only had 3-4 inches, that last 40ish degree day was helpful shrinking in back. Still plenty here.

My shooting hand fingers are tough to keep warm. It wasn't until I started using the disposable little chemical heaters inside the glove that I really was able to keep them warm. No more safety fumbles now. I think dude is asking for tougher rather than warmer gloves though.

Stop by a "farm & ranch" store....Fleet Farm, Bomgaars, etc., look early in the season for the best selection. I did spend $50 on a style I liked in FF, a fancy set of liners, but the sheer leather types will be way cheaper that what you see here. The synthetic, stretchy types will not be a...

Heck, I forgot about the ultimate cage fighting match I was in over the weekend...that explains things now! Those things have been in my rear view mirror for over a decade now. Thanks for suggesting that though! The biggest fights I find myself in theses days, are trying to get my chaps on...

My leg is start to feel better, it did leave a nice reminder behind...

A bit late after the current expiring CRP contract are being torn out and burned off already. I hope it creates some new interest in putting land into programs. It is a strange time we are in now. Commodity prices are lower, where farming profits are very limited, we had a land sale yesterday...

Over the years those pronghorn boots have bounced around on quality. Had a pair 20 years ago that lasted a long time, the leather finally worn thru. The next pair all the support in the heel area broke up in just a season or 2. But more recently some guys here seem to like them and have...

I guess that was me 10 years ago. There were no "big" parcels available and it was driving to a place, gearing up, spending 10-30 minutes hunting and about that much time walking to the cover and back to the truck....then drive 5-10 minutes to the next one, repeat as needed until a limit was...