hayduke
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Maybe it was a redneck to redneck thing, but we had a great time got to hunt some outstanding WIA and also got invited to hunt some private land. The people we met couldn't have been nicer.
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birdman652001
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i live 2 miles from the river.. must make me a redneck and a cranky farmer...
lol.. damn city slickers. (yes you!)
So you are telling me that since you have not had a problem with locals that no one ever should? Pretty interesting thoughts. Maybe when you have hunted as long as I have your thought process will change. Everyone knows that there are 1-2% jerks in every walk of life and they cause 95% of the problems.
abraun
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birdman652001
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dunno.. it can all depend on the hunter's attitude as well and how you approach them. so far lots of people tell me pierre is a very very VERY friendly town. ive met snotty people in Sioux Falls, SD and Rapid City, SD... im much happier with the people here. I work for an ag service. i see farmers daily at work.. i havent met a deranged farmer yet. one might pop up.. but i havent met one that had a short temper.
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I agree, I'm not going to drive 700 miles to hunt a ditch. I think ditch hunting which is also legal in Iowa, is probably not a good public policy. I understand that ditches in question are little more than easements with ruts from limited traffic, but I can see why landowners on either side don't like it. Access is always the major issue, becoming more an issue in Kansas as well. Hunters need to be aware, if you don't have contacts and a prearranged place to hunt, you are begging for disappointment, in the high visibility, destination areas of any state, for any sought after species.
hayduke
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Guy's, I'm not trying to stir the pot, and everybody's experience is different. The WIA in both Colorado and SD are anything but useless. We found lots of birds in WIA areas and where able to get off many shots and took two or three birds at every area. There was only two of us with two labs. I think the combination of WIA and private can work out real well. I look at "Ditch" hunting and "road" hunting as two different things. We only ditch hunted once in ten days, on the last day our way back down to I 90.
Kuk Kuk,
I didn't mean to say you didn't have a bad experience with landowners, I just stated that I had not and I'm not a kid. I've been hunting well over 45 years. I agree with Birdman, I live and work with ranchers and feel comfortable around them that's not to say the next time I go out I won't run into a A hole, but I kind of doubt it.
Peter
Kuk Kuk,
I didn't mean to say you didn't have a bad experience with landowners, I just stated that I had not and I'm not a kid. I've been hunting well over 45 years. I agree with Birdman, I live and work with ranchers and feel comfortable around them that's not to say the next time I go out I won't run into a A hole, but I kind of doubt it.
Peter
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exactly, ive run into hunters that come to my parents house when i was in high school wanting to hunt the pheasant pit across the road and they get irratated when i tell them no. its not like i said, F you and get off my damn properity and NO you can NOT hunt my land right off the bat hovering a shotgun over my head.
I understand hunters come from miles around and spend alot of money and expected to be able to hunt just about anywhere they go, but farmers have hunters lined up to hunt such land or family members are wanting it untouched for holiday gathering to go hunting.
best way to earn a farmer's trust or earn their "in the circle" in a nicely form manner and even if he says no, respect that. even if you go to him every year, and still says no, you never know, that one year he may say yes.
What would you call 2 pick up trucks with 5-6 guys in each truck, drinking beer and driving around looking for trouble? Ran into that more than once. No, not a city slicker. Live in the beautiful north country close to Lake Superior. Mostly vast wilderness up here. We get locals doing the same thing during our deer season when we get hit with a large influx of hunters, mostly from Minneapolis. Like I said, it always 1-2% of the people causing most of the problems, whether its Minnesota, SD or Timbuktu. Someone else put out a thread and I added my experiences. When you got grown men scaring the crap out of my teenage kids I feel an obligation to pass the story along.
Kuk Kuk,
You are right you will find jerks everywhere you go. I think the reason you got the responses that you did is because in your original post you stated the closer you get to the river the more rednecks and angry farmers there are. What you are saying now is no matter where you go, there are some Assholes. So your statement has changed some. I am not saying you don't have the right to state your experiences, but when you generalize an area as Redneck and Angry Farmers you have to expect some people to take offense. No different then if someone said Northern Minnesota was just a bunch of hockey players and whores. It is not true, and if you haven't heard that joke let me know I will tell it. It is actually a clean joke.
You are right you will find jerks everywhere you go. I think the reason you got the responses that you did is because in your original post you stated the closer you get to the river the more rednecks and angry farmers there are. What you are saying now is no matter where you go, there are some Assholes. So your statement has changed some. I am not saying you don't have the right to state your experiences, but when you generalize an area as Redneck and Angry Farmers you have to expect some people to take offense. No different then if someone said Northern Minnesota was just a bunch of hockey players and whores.
It is not true, and if you haven't heard that joke let me know I will tell it. It is actually a clean joke.
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BRITTMAN
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In my limited SD exeriences and observations, the landowners that most often patrol their ditches (or have someone do it for them) are the ones that are supplementally releasing birds into their fields for hunters sorry I mean shooters.
Have seen one of these operations running nearby a SD GMA. The truck (assume hired hand) would drive the roads patrolling and scaring the birds off the road back onto the fields. The shear number of roosters and few hens would tell ya it was released birds.
Long time ago now, we stayed with a SD farm family and hunted their sloughs, pastures, and creeks (not much CRP). We wanted to stretch out a little and not burn their land off. We were warned about a couple sections about 10 miles down the road .. sure enough as we slowed down to look over the land an old pick-up truck starts tailgaiting us. Evidently the guy spends most of his off season driving the roads around his property.
Would have been fun to slow down and pass by his land on a daily basis just for giggles, but we found other places to hunt that were not in this pathway.
Have seen one of these operations running nearby a SD GMA. The truck (assume hired hand) would drive the roads patrolling and scaring the birds off the road back onto the fields. The shear number of roosters and few hens would tell ya it was released birds.
Long time ago now, we stayed with a SD farm family and hunted their sloughs, pastures, and creeks (not much CRP). We wanted to stretch out a little and not burn their land off. We were warned about a couple sections about 10 miles down the road .. sure enough as we slowed down to look over the land an old pick-up truck starts tailgaiting us.
Evidently the guy spends most of his off season driving the roads around his property. Would have been fun to slow down and pass by his land on a daily basis just for giggles, but we found other places to hunt that were not in this pathway.