Goals for This Coming Season?

BritChaser

BritChaser

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Have any goals for the coming season? Hunts you hope to make? New places to try? Maybe new species - woodcock, grouse, partridge? A first for me will be a SD private land hunt, only my second trip to SD. Pretty excited about it.
 
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with some luck in oct. i will be in my old stomping grounds in vermont shooting what will likely be my last timberdoodles and ruffs.

cheers
 
Hoping to get my sage grouse permit this year and starting in eastern Ca after them, then over Donner pass for mtn quail and blue grouse and ending up in NW Ca for ruffies and early valley quail season.:cheers: I sure would like to try for a ptarmigan to but its still so hot during their season and I don't know if being in the sun above the treeline is up my alley.
 
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what ya gonna do with the sage grouse, stuff it, ya can't eat the things that's fer sur. if ya want to hunt something that is really slower than your quial the ptarmigan are the way to go, will wake up your lungs also, i've killed them with rocks so you should do well on them should you go. they can be fun however and some will actually fly

cheers
 
Sage grouse eat just fine. You have to shoot the young birds not the bombers. The young birds eat just fine. The large bombers require a pressure cooker and then you can eat them too.:thumbsup:
 
Goals

Gonna start late October hunting up the east border of sd on private, and then head to Long Prairie, MN to deer hunt with a buddy. From there work my way due west to hunt Forman, ND area and then west to Ellendale, nd. From there south on 281 to miller, sd for a couple weeks just hunting some private, ditches, and public. Be gone about month. The wife is gonna be awful glad to see me when I get home, maybe. Wanna compare sd and nd a little bit.
 
Will hunt Downs, Kansas area again. Plan to take a new to me shotgun to try. I posted earlier that I got an Ithica-SKB SxS so I will try it along with an 1100 and possibly a Beretta. Kansas is always a fun place with some of the best people I have had the pleasure of hooking up with.
 
I think this year I will work really hard to get my daughter out with me as much as possible. She has turkey hunted with me for several years, and tried a couple short deer hunts last season. I think she's ready to tag along on some waterfowl hunts and maybe a short upland hunt or two or three.:thumbsup:

And I need to get my dad out with me to hunt something, anything.
 
Will start in Colorado in Sept. with sharp-tail, blues, sage grouse and archery deer. Oct. Idaho cast and blast (steelhead & chukar), Utah for more chukars and huns. Nov. Colorado and Kansas for pheasants. Dec. back to Utah for more chukars.
In between the trips will hunt waterfowl localy.
Oh yeah all most forgot in Aug. I will run my PP in his NAVHDA U/T test and then in the spring; my new pup in her N/A test.
Going to be a fun year!
 
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just got done running a SM in her N/A TEST what a pain lol i may run her again in late august to get a better score???

any way mid september is small game opener in MN so that means ruffed spruce sharptail grouse & prairie chickens to chase around... i my-self will be up in northern MN chase n prairie & woodland grouse sharptail grouse will be my major focus on that trip it will rap up my MN grouse slam if i harvest a sharptail on that trip half the day will be spent chase n sharpys & maybe a bonus prairie chicken & the other half of the day will be spent chase n ruffed grouse in the aspen parklands...

mid oct. means pheasant opener in MN we will have a large group out on opener but they will all leave by monday afternoon so my father & i will spend about a WK out in western MN get n the young pup on as many wild public land pheasants as i can!!! then just after that WK of MN pheasant hunting is the MN prairie chicken hunt & we have drawn a tag the last 3-4 yrs so i hope that keeps up... we also will hunt pheasants up in that area also if/when we tag a few chickens...

late oct-nov we will be back out in MN pheasant country to get in a few mid-late season hunts after the crops come out... i doubt i will hunt MN deer again this season??? mite head down to SE MN with a buddy but id much rather be out pheasant hunting to be honest!!!

all our hunts will be done 100% on public lands in the state of MN no need to pay to play or just hunt private lands we have great WMA system in MN with outstanding habitat no need to ask permission or pay a thing!!!

if i get a hair up my butt & have some time/money to burn up i may take a trip out to ND or SD id much rather hit up ND but SD is closer so??? i just want to see how we do on MN pheasant opener & if we didnt get on enough pheasants in MN we may head west??? i really doubt we will head west thow??? we had a great pheasant season in MN last yr so???
 
I would like to have both my dogs completely broke. Being able to shoot a bird and look over and see both of them still standing, that will be cool.

I would like to make a trip our to the SW part of KS and see if I can get some Scaled quail shot over the dogs. But I would guess that it will be pretty tough with the drought the last couple years out there.

Would really like to make another trip up to Montana, like last year.

But most of the season will be hunting Quail, which is my favorite bird to hunt. There will also be a pheasant trip or two.
 
My goals:

Hunt every weekend possible
Get my new puppy on his first wild pheasant
Hunt South Dakota for the first time - free lance on public land
Give North Dakota another chance
Hunt Montana again
Shoot my first prairie chicken
Get a second Bobwhite
Hit more of the birds I shoot at...
 
Goal number 1

Get the new pup ready to go for the upcoming seasons. Going to be a tight squeeze to have her ready. She will by no means be finished, but should be well on her way.:thumbsup:
 
pup

don't know what kinda mutt ya got your hopes pinned on. most dogs have a slightly different maturity rate but with a shorthair i know that they can be a good fun hunting companion between 5 and 6 mo. been through that enough times to know it ain't just a fluke. your job is to socialize them, read em' a couple of books and get them around birds, if they ain't got it, there is nothing ya can do about it and if they do have it, it is hard to take it away from them

cheers
 
Shoot a bob white quail and a rooster pheasant in Kansas.:) Something I haven't done for two years.
 
I will be going on my first sharp tail hunt in late September early October so I'm hoping the dog and I along with my hunting partners and there dogs can get on some. Having never hunted sharp tail before any suggestions you guys can pass along as far as loads chokes and any other info you guys feel is important is greatly appreciated.
 
shotgun and loads

i used the same thing i most always use, a 28 ga. 7.5's and mod. and imp. cyl. ya don't need a goose gun, some hold pretty well for a dog and horrible to eat, really dark meat, dog's didn't like to eat them either so don't shoot too many. a fun bird non the less

cheers
 
Choclab42 said:
I will be going on my first sharp tail hunt in late September early October so I'm hoping the dog and I along with my hunting partners and there dogs can get on some. Having never hunted sharp tail before any suggestions you guys can pass along as far as loads chokes and any other info you guys feel is important is greatly appreciated.
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They are not the toughest bird you will find.

Here is a sharptail that Indy pointed for me last fall. It was the first trip for us hunting sharptail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVt_pj20q4w

I shot this one with a 20 ga.. I shot 7.5 most of the time and some 6's. If all you are going shoot is sharptail, I would stay with the 7.5, if there are pheasants and Huns around, you might stay with the 6's.
 
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