AtTheMurph
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I went to Willow Slough for the lottery to hunt at Kankakee Sands. Drive by it many times and hunted there one time late in the season a few years ago.
30 some hunting groups who showed up. I was the third last one to get my choice. The good was that none of the areas was full so I could have hunted in an area with other people/dogs, but there were also 4 areas that no one had signed up to hunt. I picked one of those that looked like the smallest or close to it and near private land figuring there might be some corn fields for food.
The "field" was 250 acres (felt like 600!) Lots of cover, fields on one side, woods on 2 others and road on the other. walked the entire boundary, through the middle a couple times and actually found some prickly pear cactus, which I didn't think was native to Indiana but apparently it is. My dog does not like it much.
I kicked up two woodcock, 2 deer, 1 rabbit and 2 covey of quail. (bag limit there is 2 quail.) I only shot one so my dog could get a little work.
There are better paces in that area for pheasants and i might try that some other time.
30 some hunting groups who showed up. I was the third last one to get my choice. The good was that none of the areas was full so I could have hunted in an area with other people/dogs, but there were also 4 areas that no one had signed up to hunt. I picked one of those that looked like the smallest or close to it and near private land figuring there might be some corn fields for food.
The "field" was 250 acres (felt like 600!) Lots of cover, fields on one side, woods on 2 others and road on the other. walked the entire boundary, through the middle a couple times and actually found some prickly pear cactus, which I didn't think was native to Indiana but apparently it is. My dog does not like it much.
I kicked up two woodcock, 2 deer, 1 rabbit and 2 covey of quail. (bag limit there is 2 quail.) I only shot one so my dog could get a little work.
There are better paces in that area for pheasants and i might try that some other time.