Mixed Bag

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I don't understand why so much doom and gloom. My favorite part of our trips over the past five years are the memories made with my dad and my uncle. The pheasants have been a huge bonus. I had some friends that called us last year to tell us not to come because the bird numbers were way down and they hadn't killed anything, well, we went anyway and last year was our best year yet. Anyway, I am really want to get on some Grouse this year and maybe a chicken, any advice on how I can do that or what those numbers look like this year? I hunt in Potter county and around the Gettysburg area.
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Look on south Dakotas game and fish website they have a map. Look at the counties close to you with the higests harves counts and hunt in them. The ones we flushed were in thin brome grass general knee high or less. We did shoot some in with pheasant. I think the biggest trick is to identify them quickly. I had quite a few that after they were out of range I said to myself damn! That was a sharptail! That's what worked for me4
 
Got these on one push at the new Meadow Creek Pheasant Camp near Lemmon.

Limit of sharpies and ringnecks. The first sharpie came after several people down the line were calling "hen, hen, hen, boom". Saw them get up on other end of line with sun at my back and the dead give away is the white underbelly.



On another push we shot sharptail, hungarian and ringnecks all from same field.


Still have an opening week 10 for 4 at this camp and lots of crops are in now and will be gone by then bringing some of best hunting of the season.
 
UGUIDE said:
Got these on one push at the new Meadow Creek Pheasant Camp near Lemmon.

Limit of sharpies and ringnecks. The first sharpie came after several people down the line were calling "hen, hen, hen, boom". Saw them get up on other end of line with sun at my back and the dead give away is the white underbelly.



On another push we shot sharptail, hungarian and ringnecks all from same field.


Still have an opening week 10 for 4 at this camp and lots of crops are in now and will be gone by then bringing some of best hunting of the season.
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Now thats a great mix bag:cheers:
 
very cool pic bummer that area got smacked so hard by the weather a few wks back didnt effect the grouse & huns id assume they are built for harsh weather not so with pheasants... but they are tough also...
 
small munsterlander owner said:
very cool pic bummer that area got smacked so hard by the weather a few wks back didnt effect the grouse & huns id assume they are built for harsh weather not so with pheasants... but they are tough also...
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any storm that kills 100k cattle is going to smother pheasants...everything hunkered down and the snow drifted over them and they suffocated.
 
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