I need help with spots for our trip

Smasher said:
If your talking about goldenshour then he ain't gonna tell you. I asked him a couple years back after I seen a spot on one of his videos with a ton of birds and all he said was that he hunts within 25 miles of Watertown and told me to check out the maps. and he was saying that the spot don't matter as much as the surrounding conditions and time of day. Said that some spots will be really good one year and not much the next. I don't know. I was just hoping to go to Dakota and get on some birds, but he made it sound like some sort of mental exercise and I just wanted to know where to go.
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People like that really tan my hide. I mean, these are *public* hunting areas and public birds, right? This is a public forum. All any of us want to do when we go to Dakota is get on those public birds. Note the recurring theme? What's the problem?

Doesn't seem like it should be this difficult or secretive. We don't want to have to use a protractor to down some roosters! We just need coordinates and, preferably, best times of day for the spot. Ideally, a strategy on working each spot and where the birds hang out on each spot would be great too. Info on whether the birds at a spot are easily spooked or hold tight would be good to know, but I can understand a guy holding back *some* info. We really just want to make shooting them as efficient and fast as possible. Driving around and slogging across miles on foot can be a real pain.
 
Limitless said:
People like that really tan my hide. I mean, these are *public* hunting areas and public birds, right? This is a public forum. All any of us want to do when we go to Dakota is get on those public birds. Note the recurring theme? What's the problem?

Doesn't seem like it should be this difficult or secretive. We don't want to have to use a protractor to down some roosters! We just need coordinates and, preferably, best times of day for the spot. Ideally, a strategy on working each spot and where the birds hang out on each spot would be great too. Info on whether the birds at a spot are easily spooked or hold tight would be good to know, but I can understand a guy holding back *some* info. We really just want to make shooting them as efficient and fast as possible. Driving around and slogging across miles on foot can be a real pain.
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Always a few cocks hanging out here; every once in a while there's nice tails too. 44.87701, -97.10963
 
Limitless said:
People like that really tan my hide. I mean, these are *public* hunting areas and public birds, right? This is a public forum. All any of us want to do when we go to Dakota is get on those public birds. Note the recurring theme? What's the problem?

Doesn't seem like it should be this difficult or secretive. We don't want to have to use a protractor to down some roosters! We just need coordinates and, preferably, best times of day for the spot. Ideally, a strategy on working each spot and where the birds hang out on each spot would be great too. Info on whether the birds at a spot are easily spooked or hold tight would be good to know, but I can understand a guy holding back *some* info. We really just want to make shooting them as efficient and fast as possible. Driving around and slogging across miles on foot can be a real pain.
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I get your tryna mock me but if a guy seens about 40 roodies on a spot why is it such a big deal to tell a guy where thats at?
 
Probably have told this story on here before but I learned a valuable lesson on sharing hunting/fishing spots a long time ago. When I was student teaching 30 years ago I had a spot on the river (public) and was catching the heck out of the white bass during the Spring run. It was off the beaten path and I was the only one (that I know of) that fished there. My cooperating teacher asked me to take him one day and so I did. Came back to the spot a few days later and there's 3 or 4 trucks there. I walk down to the river and original guy I took now had 3 or 4 of his buddies there. My little honey hole off the beaten path was no more. Tried going there a few years after college and there was always dudes there fishing. Lost a good fishing spot but learned a lesson on keeping my mouth shut on good fishing/hunting spots.
 
Limitless said:
Another one! Coming out of the woodwork!
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I used to only lay claim to pheasants within 70 minutes of home, but knowing more & more people are interested in them, I thought I better expand my territory. Just so we're clear, this includes public ditch pheasants, as well as pheasants on or near (either right now or at any point in the past or future) actual publicly accessible land. Mine.
 
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I normally don't mention the state let along the town or county where I hunt but I made an exception a few years ago. A young man who I've known since he was a kid had recently lost his adopted mom and dad and had asked me where to go elk hunting. He had never gone before and didn't know where to start. I didn't have the heart to not say....so I broke my own rule and I told him exactly where to go and how to hunt it. Opening morning I got a call from the kid and he was excited. He had killed a small bull elk right where I told him to go. He got a lot more joy out of getting that small elk than I ever would. A couple years later I drew a tag and killed the largest bull elk of my life about 50 yds where he had killed his bull. I've always thought it was karma coming back around.
 
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Bob Peters said:
SIR! Please refer to your gun setup with the correct term!

claptrap
1 of 2
noun
clap·trap ˈklap-ˌtrap
Synonyms of claptrap
: pretentious nonsense : trash

claptrap

2 of 2
adjective
: characterized by or suggestive of claptrap
especially : of a cheap showy nature
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Pretentious absolutely doesn't fit. That would be the fancy boy break action guns *some* people use.

Not showy either. Cheap is certainly debatable, and subjective, although one jibe did claim that the sight was more expensive than the gun, so there is that.

Function over form would probably fit well, if you can come up with a degrading term that means that. :p

A term for "rooster killing machine" would also work.

"One of kind" also works... until the trend takes off, anyway.
 
Limitless said:
Is that public pheasants or private pheasants? Just want to be clear here on what subspecies of bird we are talking about. In other words, smart and evasive, or dumb and tame?
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Public pheasants. Ditch pheasants are public & therefore smart & evasive. The dumb, tame ones are flare nares seen in mown ditches as you drive by a preserve. They don't really pass as pheasants, much less smart or evasive.
 
A5 Sweet 16 said:
The dumb, tame ones are flare nares seen in mown ditches as you drive by a preserve. They don't really pass as pheasants, much less smart or evasive.
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As I've recounted on this forum before, several years ago I unleashed carnage, death and destruction on a group just as you described. This is one mark on my soul that may cause me to drive to Saskatchewan and seek repentance at the sacred Indian memorial.
 
A5 Sweet 16 said:
Public pheasants. Ditch pheasants are public & therefore smart & evasive. The dumb, tame ones are flare nares seen in mown ditches as you drive by a preserve. They don't really pass as pheasants, much less smart or evasive.
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Man, the private land birds, that you didn't address, sure are a weird breed. Smart enough to stay out of the ditches, but dumb as rocks when hunted on their private home range.
 
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