opening day weekend just ahead.
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wisturkeyhunter
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Good luck, be safe and courteous.
Some pretty young birds out from what I've seen.
Some pretty young birds out from what I've seen.
Opening Weekend
I'm going to walk a few drainage ditches etc. on private land this opener....lots of crops standing,just few bean fields and silage corn harvested so far.The public land will be busy for the opener but I will start hunting that during the week on off from work days and on weekends after the early season rush is over. Good Luck To Everyone!
I'm going to walk a few drainage ditches etc. on private land this opener....lots of crops standing,just few bean fields and silage corn harvested so far.The public land will be busy for the opener but I will start hunting that during the week on off from work days and on weekends after the early season rush is over. Good Luck To Everyone!
Kismet
UPH Guru
From what I've heard of weather report, opener should be wet. I'm sure birds will be put out on State properties, but imagine the crowd of opening week-end hunters will be down. Might mean that the week days after opener will have some birds.
I'll go to what remaining private land is available to me for the weekend, then go public ground hunting during the week, as I can. It has been years since I went to public grounds on the opening week-end.
Have fun, be safe.
I'll go to what remaining private land is available to me for the weekend, then go public ground hunting during the week, as I can. It has been years since I went to public grounds on the opening week-end.
Have fun, be safe.
Ranger Rick
Member
I kinda feel for you Southern WI guys. We've been out since the grouse opener in September, getting in some good dog work and shooting some birds. I sure remember my teen years hunting pheasants outside Burlington, though. I often wonder what our old hunting spots look like these days and whether they hold any birds.
wisturkeyhunter
New member
Don't feel to bad for us.
UplandHntr
Well-known member
It will be a bit before I get out. Next weekend Im taking another teip up north then headed to Montana for a week or so. Cold weather looks to be on the way! Rooster weather!!
I'll avoid the noon start today and head out early tomorrow morning to a few spots that tend to be less crowded. If you're willing to walk further and through nastier stuff than the average guy there are lots of pheasants to be found on public land. I've enjoyed chasing grouse and woodcock the past month in N WI but I'm looking forward to not having to pick ticks off myself and my dogs after each hunt. Last weekend was especially bad.
liverNwhite
New member
Well no birds Saturday and one flush. But on a good note took my two this morning.
519vx
Member
Livernwhite I think you mean you got a rooster and a woodcock or a dove or something because daily bag on pheasants for opening weekend is only one per day.
wisturkeyhunter
New member
Were they both roosters?
Kismet
UPH Guru
Was out with Mick for a couple of hours Saturday afternoon; we moved a hen and a rooster on private land.
Hen came up a hundred yards or more away, but the rooster popped up along a fence-line on the high slope and flushed directly at me, flying towards me about 30 feet off the ground towards me at the bottom of the slope. What a silly bird!
Being the elderly, experienced, and wise hunter I am, I remained calm, straightened my line to the bird, brought the double sxs up, and carefully
shot behind it two times as it flew over my head.
Pheasant season has begun!!!
It was nice to be out; I caught two of the sunny hours on Saturday.
Be safe, have fun.
Hen came up a hundred yards or more away, but the rooster popped up along a fence-line on the high slope and flushed directly at me, flying towards me about 30 feet off the ground towards me at the bottom of the slope. What a silly bird!
Being the elderly, experienced, and wise hunter I am, I remained calm, straightened my line to the bird, brought the double sxs up, and carefully
shot behind it two times as it flew over my head.
Pheasant season has begun!!!
It was nice to be out; I caught two of the sunny hours on Saturday.
Be safe, have fun.
519vx
Member
Nice report Kismet! :cheers:
I wasn't able to get out on Saturday, but did go yesterday morning in western Waukesha county. Part of the fun (and struggle) of hunting two flushers together is when they scent a bird....which of the two do I watch the most closely? Do I watch the older, and more solid but slower pup, or do I watch my youngest who is really coming into her own?
After a while, they got on one but the scent was apparently initially somewhat weak, as they were both birdy but not hot. They worked the trail along a field transition area (two different weed/cover types next to one another) and the scent apparently got stronger as they both got real birdy.
Its been a while since I've had that feeling of anticipation of a flush with two really birdy dogs in front of me. LOVE THAT FEELING! The older dog finally put Mr. Rooster up. It was a beautiful flush, the bird cutting to the right in front of me, cackling the whole time. One shot and it was over, a beautiful bird in hand and a great start to the season.
I wasn't able to get out on Saturday, but did go yesterday morning in western Waukesha county. Part of the fun (and struggle) of hunting two flushers together is when they scent a bird....which of the two do I watch the most closely? Do I watch the older, and more solid but slower pup, or do I watch my youngest who is really coming into her own?
After a while, they got on one but the scent was apparently initially somewhat weak, as they were both birdy but not hot. They worked the trail along a field transition area (two different weed/cover types next to one another) and the scent apparently got stronger as they both got real birdy.
Its been a while since I've had that feeling of anticipation of a flush with two really birdy dogs in front of me. LOVE THAT FEELING! The older dog finally put Mr. Rooster up. It was a beautiful flush, the bird cutting to the right in front of me, cackling the whole time. One shot and it was over, a beautiful bird in hand and a great start to the season.
519vx
Member
A friend of mine hunted Allenton Marsh on Sunday. He spoke to another guy who claimed that on the opener, somebody apparently got shot sprayed pretty good to the point an ambulance was called. I don't have any more details than that, but this is exactly why I give any other hunter/group a very wide berth if I come across them in the field.
AtTheMurph
Well-known member
I own land right on Theresa Marsh and I won't hunt our place on opening weekend.
It's like the wild west or maybe more accurately like Englewood in Chicago on a hot Saturday night.
It's like the wild west or maybe more accurately like Englewood in Chicago on a hot Saturday night.
Opening Weekend
I hunted late Sunday afternoon on public land in Dodge County. It was drizzling the whole time. My young ESS who just turned a year old today put up a Rooster. The bird flushed and went about 20ft. went down and the dog flushed him again. He flew low to the ground crossing and angling away, By the time I got a shot it was a long one and I didn't get him. I also heard 2 other Roosters cackling just across the property line on private land....so close yet so far.....
I hunted late Sunday afternoon on public land in Dodge County. It was drizzling the whole time. My young ESS who just turned a year old today put up a Rooster. The bird flushed and went about 20ft. went down and the dog flushed him again. He flew low to the ground crossing and angling away, By the time I got a shot it was a long one and I didn't get him. I also heard 2 other Roosters cackling just across the property line on private land....so close yet so far.....
My dad went on public land the sunday after opener. He said it wasn't bad at all for hunters but the ones he talked to said it was a zoo on saturday. State land where released birds. He got his one for the day. He had 3 flushes that day. Had 3 the second day and got one bird that day as well.