Introduced a Friend to the Way of the Pheasant

[BritChaser]

Last season, as usual, I was too anxious for the Kansas opener and headed north for an October hunt. I talked a friend, who had never hunted anything, into going with me to ND. We had a great time. Still pictured clearly in my mind was his unhurried shouldering of my Browning o/u and dropping DOA his first pheasant ever on a going away right to left shot. As a young man he had been a Guard infantryman, so he knew the way of the gun and it showed. We had some great times out of the field too. We still laugh about where we had our Friday night dinner: the Angry Beaver Inn. The next night we stopped in the only bar and grill in a tiny town where the waitress asked us where we were from. Just for fun, I asked "What makes you think we're not from around here?" "Your accents," she replied. I wondered to myself, "I have an accent??" "Where do you think we're from?" I asked. "Down south," she replied. "Where is 'down south'?" I politely asked. "Kansas and below," she replied. So we Kansans, from a ND perspective, are southerners. What fun that conversation was. All part of the way of the pheasant.

 

[landman]

Last season, as usual, I was too anxious for the Kansas opener and headed north for an October hunt. I talked a friend, who had never hunted anything, into going with me to ND. We had a great time. Still pictured clearly in my mind was his unhurried shouldering of my Browning o/u and dropping DOA his first pheasant ever on a going away right to left shot. As a young man he had been a Guard infantryman, so he knew the way of the gun and it showed. We had some great times out of the field too. We still laugh about where we had our Friday night dinner: the Angry Beaver Inn. The next night we stopped in the only bar and grill in a tiny town where the waitress asked us where we were from. Just for fun, I asked "What makes you think we're not from around here?" "Your accents," she replied. I wondered, "I have an accent??" "Where do you think we're from?" I asked. "Down south," she replied. "Where is 'down south'?" I politely asked. "Kansas and below," she replied. So we Kansans, from a ND perspective, are southerners. What fun that conversation was. All part of the way of the pheasant.

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Thanks for sharing. Being from the northern country I can relate to your experience in ND. However I spent a lot of years living in Texas and I can accurately report that they think anyone living north of Oklahoma is a Yankee. I guess Kansans have it made.

 

[Boomer-IN]

It has been a great privilege to introduce several friends to the great sport of pheasant hunting over the past 10 years or so. Most guys coming to SD for the first time cannot believe the bird numbers. Also fun to experience the hospitality of the small towns of SD!

 

[Deacon]

Have had some good times at the Angry Beaver in Oakes, ND.

 

[BritChaser]

Angry Beaver Inn

Have had some good times at the Angry Beaver in Oakes, ND.

It's a good place to drink and dine. We enjoyed it and are still laughing.