Getting Down to Brass Tacks
- Thread starter Bob Peters
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A5 Sweet 16
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Good luck fishing this summer and shooting clay pigeons and taking the dog swimming. I caught my first stream trout of the year on Sunday, 21" hen(brown).
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Wild or flare nare?
A5 Sweet 16
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I don't care how others spend their time or money. But I (& a few others I know) do inspect each & every rooster I shoot to verify it's wild. Once in a blue moon I come across one that wasn't - an escapee from somewhere nearby or possibly a planted leftover from a kids' shoot.
Why do I inspect them? Why do I care enough to mention regularly in my videos? It's not to look down my nose at & feel superior to people who shoot pen reared birds. It's to show anyone who cares that the vast, vast, VAST majority of public land pheasants in SD are, in fact, truly wild, conceived, hatched, & raised in the wild like 100 generations before them, somehow avoiding tragedy from the moment the egg hits the nest. I hope to show people that with some experience, hard work, & sometimes a little luck, wild birds can be had here "for free". Lots of them. I hope to inspire someone to come to SD (or somewhere else with a wild population) & experience the same exhilaration I'm lucky enough to have 30 plus times a season. It's that awesome. I know other people want it, & if so, they deserve it. I've answered TONS of correspondence that said basically, "OK, we're here. Now what?" I love getting a text later on saying they got a couple, had the time of their life doing it, & plan to try again later in the season.
But I also hear lots of claims that most of SD's pheasants are pen reared, that the State of SD releases millions of them, etc, etc. Obviously almost none of this banter is true, & I'm out to dispel the myths as much as I can. They don't help promote the activity I love & want others to love too.
Why do I inspect them? Why do I care enough to mention regularly in my videos? It's not to look down my nose at & feel superior to people who shoot pen reared birds. It's to show anyone who cares that the vast, vast, VAST majority of public land pheasants in SD are, in fact, truly wild, conceived, hatched, & raised in the wild like 100 generations before them, somehow avoiding tragedy from the moment the egg hits the nest. I hope to show people that with some experience, hard work, & sometimes a little luck, wild birds can be had here "for free". Lots of them. I hope to inspire someone to come to SD (or somewhere else with a wild population) & experience the same exhilaration I'm lucky enough to have 30 plus times a season. It's that awesome. I know other people want it, & if so, they deserve it. I've answered TONS of correspondence that said basically, "OK, we're here. Now what?" I love getting a text later on saying they got a couple, had the time of their life doing it, & plan to try again later in the season.
But I also hear lots of claims that most of SD's pheasants are pen reared, that the State of SD releases millions of them, etc, etc. Obviously almost none of this banter is true, & I'm out to dispel the myths as much as I can. They don't help promote the activity I love & want others to love too.
