Pick an Opener

BritChaser

BritChaser

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Setting aside cost, time, and other practicalities, if you could hunt any opener you wanted this coming season, where would you go?
 
Medicine Lake and Froid , Montana, Via Homestead...Friends, birds galore and good times! Friday night before the season, Froid steak fry and raffles, Saturday night in Med Lake, the Hunter and landowner appreciation dinner. It is almost more fun socializing at night then hunting in the morning.....almost...LOL.
 
Mn :laugh: its all I know, Just off the SD border and I spend most the the season in the same area and do pretty well Brothers/dad brought me out to the area when I was 12 hooked sense seen some huge changes in my short hunting career in the area but not sure ill see seasons like 04-07 again
Some day ill pony up and actually hunt Sd
 
Stuck on 2.

Colby KS, so I can eat at Montana Mikes after a days hunt.

SD for the mixed bag and some good 'eye fishing.
 
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I agree 100%....Love the area, People, fun.

Montana Husker said:
Medicine Lake and Froid , Montana, Via Homestead...Friends, birds galore and good times! Friday night before the season, Froid steak fry and raffles, Saturday night in Med Lake, the Hunter and landowner appreciation dinner. It is almost more fun socializing at night then hunting in the morning.....almost...LOL.
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It would be South East Pennsylvania, but it would be 1970!
 
FLDBRED said:
Pheasants and Quail, at one time Pa. harvested over 1.3 million roosters and a few hundred thousand Quail!
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Ohio harvested 1 million-ish pheasants one year as I recall...but I reckon the figures were estimates in both states. Still a lot of birds.
The big Pennsylvania quail days tho were not the 70s, were they?

Not an opener kind of fella but I would pick West Virginia in a 1928 November, give or take a handfull of years.
Any opener is not always the best, just the first opportunity.
 
The quail population in Pa. probably peaked in the mid to late 30's with a population estimate of over a million birds, then peaked again in the late 60's, although not ever to those numbers. But for ME 1970 will always be special, I remember busting plenty of quail coveys and pheasants seemed to be everywhere. I love opening days!
 
Isn't it amazing what a few decades and changing in farming practices do to bird populations. I suppose that encroachment of man in PA and Ohio also hurt the birds.

If I could pick a place for opening day it would be Montana, the NE corner. Just for the scenery if nothing else. I love the wide open prairies. I'm a prairie type person I guess. Love the flinthills of KS too!
 
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