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I fall a few times each year. Sometimes it's an electric fence wire I didn't see, but usually it's uneven ground while my focus is elsewhere or gnarly cattails I'm trying to bust through. If there's a lot of snow, I'll get hung up on a drift. I did have both feet break through the ice earlier...

Find areas that aren't windy. I can't tell you how often on a super windy day, I'll get down into a ravine or the backside of some cattails and I can feel that the wind is gone and then the pheasants flush. Wind sketches out all wildlife. There is no real great answer, just get out and do it...

You've gotta toss that KBB on the wall. I've been hunting 30+ years and have yet to shoot a KBB or a melly.

Sorry, it's a long and winding tale of sarcasm, but when A5 said I've got tons of uneducated pheasants with no hunting pressure in this area, I countered by saying they're all pen raised pheasants. Neither of which are true.

Just because Hwy 212 is a direct pipeline from that one place in Wisconsin that raises all 1 million flare nares that get released on SD public land.

I've seen a couple guys' dogs run into snares, so a pair of cable cutters might be a good idea if you aren't familiar with unsetting traps.

I couldn't find the hard data, but this article alludes to PF Biologists noting it - https://www.startribune.com/pheasants-winter-segregation-and-bar-maidens/83480632 I've personally witnessed roosters pushing hens off of feed (around cattle feed bunks in tough winters). Now, with proper...

Having compassion is good, but I sometimes think it's easy to have an anthropomorphic view of pheasants. They've survived a heck of a lot worse throughout the history of their species than a random brutal winter or bipedal hunters. Pheasants will ride out the tough times whether they are...

There are a few pheasants on public land in SD. I would be shocked if you couldn't find a hotel in December or January. The bulk of pheasant hunters are fair weather folks.

I did once see a rooster hit a power line and die. Opening day, my dad was blocking and was just about to shoot when it occurred. Regardless, your buddy should at least buy you a new shotgun.

I've worn snow shoes to get back into places to hunt, but took them off to hunt as walking through cattails in snow shoes isn't feasible.

There was an article in the local paper penned by John Cooper, one of the good guys, IMO, regarding the reduction in wetlands and other factors involved in wildlife conservation. Hopefully you can read it and it isn't blocked behind a paywall -...

Yes, the blinders are there to prevent pecking, but the state requires preserves to have some sort of identifying feature on the birds they release -

Fortunately, SD requires released pheasants to be indicated by the flare nares or a clipped toe. MN doesn't require this, so you can probably assume that any pheasant you shoot either with or without the hole in the nose is a pen raised pseudorooster. ;)

If I were travelling to SD from MT for a DIY hunt, I wouldn't go to the Gregory area. 20 years ago, for sure. Then the CRP dwindled away at about the same time as all the preserves popped up and started dumping FN mud all over the place. There isn't much by way of public access out there...

T-shirt and hoodie sweatshirt for 30-45 temps T-shirt, long sleeved t-shirt and hoodie 15-30 T-shirt, base layer and hoodie for under 15 degrees. I'll also put on a pair of long johns at this stage.

I can never remember to post videos up on here.

I don't hunt cattails, either. They just stand there and don't give a guy much of a challenge. Second, is it possible to hunt a plant? Seems like that would fall in the foraging category.

Just be simply more bas@ss than others, make great shots, have an awesome dog, not partake in grabass metric. Heck, I consider myself a decent hunter, but I'm not in the same league as Goose.

I love the AI renditions of Goose getting permission. Toss in a goofy nephew and a pile of mud nearby and I think we'll be all set. :)