Huge Question

Montana Husker said:
Hell, up here in Montana, if I do not start getting some birds up in the first 100 yards, I start to think about heading to a new field. I cannot imagine walking section after section and only seeing a handfull of birds, I enjoy watching the dogs as much as the next guy, but a happy bird dog is a birdy bird dog....
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I was never spoiled with birds like that. The dogs enjoy our hunting as much as I do even when birds are scarce and they never get discouraged. The old school guys were spoiled with birds and when they started disappearing they just quit hunting instead of trying to do something about it. We are cursed with over productive soil and weather around here. The farmers can get WW out in time to cut silage at least 3 times (corn and sudan) and only god and the farmers know how many cuttings of alf alfa they can get a year. Doesn't bode well for the birds when the land is that productive.
 
I guess I am missing something but I don't see anything wrong with going to a preserve to supplement time in the field for my dogs, regardless of whether it's extending the season or in a down year. Even Ted Williams took batting practice.
 
I would train more and walk more.:thumbsup: I just get the same satisfaction from birds out of my pen training for a fraction of the cost as the same bird on someone else's property is all. No dif, just cheaper.
 
I do both. I live in northern Illinois so wild pheasants are not the easiest to find. I like to go to a hunt club maybe 1-2 times month so my dog can get a reward for the running she puts in for me during the season.
 
Nothing wrong with shooting some preserve birds if that's what you want to do but I'm sure a lot of guys posting on this thread can find more wild bird hunting within a couple hours drive if the effort was put forth.

Take Wisconsin for example if you can't find wild birds within an hour of anywhere in Wisconsin on public land you are probably not looking hard enough.
 
wisturkeyhunter said:
Nothing wrong with shooting some preserve birds if that's what you want to do but I'm sure a lot of guys posting on this thread can find more wild bird hunting within a couple hours drive if the effort was put forth.

Take Wisconsin for example if you can't find wild birds within an hour of anywhere in Wisconsin on public land you are probably not looking hard enough.
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I'm sure that most of the people who come to this place would prefer to hunt wild birds. But out here, you can't do that after Christmas (pheasants, anyway). The preserves all stay open until early March, so that extends the season by about 2 1/2 months.

We've got the weather out here to do it, too – we're not trudging through 4 feet of snow in January and February. I'm glad to take advantage of the extra opportunities to put the dogs on the ground.
 
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