Bob Peters
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This was December of 2020. My family has a cabin in LeSueur county MN, and it is vacant for most of the winter. There are pheasants around, but not a hotspot. I don't care. I love to head there, unwind, and chase pheasants for a few days. If it's MN deer season I usually head to Iowa and hunt. Sometimes I drive and hunt around Jackson MN and visit a cousin who lives there. The cost of gas or non-res license never enters my mind. Really the cost of anything to do with pheasant hunting means nothing to me. I can't put a price on why I do it and what it gives to me. I remember a few years ago running into massive bird numbers on public land around fairmont and telling a buddy about it. His response, "I think everyone else has given up for the year. (the snow was really deep)" Anyways, here's the main point of my post. When I get down to the cabin hunting, there's a sense of tranquility I seldom find anywhere else. I never turn on the tv, I just start a fire, crack a beer to cut the dust, and spend the evenings petting the bird dog and staring into the fire. I guess I am a pretty simple man, but that keeps me occupied and happy. I am always amazed at how much our dogs give us, and wake up the next day and do it again.
. Then I called a buddy and told him to apply too. We didn't apply as a group, but I told him that if he draws and I don't, I'll go with just to walk the land.