Who all is hunting this weekend?

I will pass on pheasant hunting this weekend and chase the ducks locally. I have been on the road for three straight weeks with the new job and need to sleep in my own bed before I am gone again on Monday for 10 more days on the road. Good luck and Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. :)
 
I'm headed West, boys!!!:D

Normally I wait until December before I get the least bit serious about bird hunting, but all these fantastic reports have me chomping at the bit to get out early! It's like a gold rush out there!!!

Seriously though... I am headed out with my super-fit dogs and a couple of beer-bellied buds. Adventures await! Report to follow. :thumbsup:
 
My coworker is having terrible luck this season. Friday before opening weekend his kid ends up in the hospital, no hunting, kid is fine. So we decide to go out this weekend, last night his Brittany gets hit by a car (broken ribs etc but alive) I think my co-worker may never plan another hunt again.

So my plans are up in the air.
 
Jakeismydog2 said:
My coworker is having terrible luck this season. Friday before opening weekend his kid ends up in the hospital, no hunting, kid is fine. So we decide to go out this weekend, last night his Brittany gets hit by a car (broken ribs etc but alive) I think my co-worker may never plan another hunt again.

So my plans are up in the air.
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keep a good eye on your dogs and kids, if you have any!
 
I sure want to get out, but most of the fellas I know are giving up already. I know there are birds out there. Giving up after one weekend is unacceptable, unless your deer hunting.
 
Looks like a another warm windy weekend this weekend. Winds 22 with gust to 30, not as bad as last weekend but it still sucks.

Zeepo
 
Assuming the sky is mostly clear come Saturday night, a friend and I will inflate a couple of camp mattresses, crawl into our sleeping bags and lie outdoors under the stars in hopes of bagging some Leonids meteors as they blaze into earth's atmosphere. (This annual meteor shower runs from Nov. 16thru 18.)

We'll try to bag some orbiting satellites, too. Spotting satellites as they track overhead across the vast starfield background is much like picking up the motion of incoming doves, prairie chickens and waterfowl while they're still some distance away. Helps keep the hunting eye sharp.
 
Yep, two guns and two labs heading out for the day close to home up in the beautiful Annapolis Valley (the most prolific agricultural belt up on the Bay of Fundy coast of Nova Scotia). The day will start with meeting at a carpool lot en route, loading guns and dogs into his car or mine, a stop for coffee, then onwards across the province to check on some cover that we've been trying to get on for two weeks now (goose hunters already set up each time we arrive). Goose hunters don't have exclusive permission (or permission at all, I suspect), but it's just not my place nor my preference to interfere, if for no other reason than the old "do unto others" adage... If we can get on there, great. If not, we'll double back to the bridge and hunt across the river from there, in some rougher uncultivated cover that we generally have to ourselves access is more easily limited (no driving allowed, so that excludes the goose hunters). Weather is looking good - a little above freezing to start out, and not too wet or windy. Hope to get a few flushes, but it's been an exceptionally productive and enjoyable season here, so pretty much anything will be gravy to what will be a great day before it even starts!
Good luck to all!
-Croc
 
got a buddy heading to Osborne right now for the weekend, all private ground, i am still thinking he will be disappointed.....we'll see.
 
KsHusker said:
Im only planning on deer scouting. Bird hunting has taken a complete back seat to deer season. Never been able to say that before. Dont plan on intentionally going after birds until right before Christmas.

I cant believe Im saying this but I may even pay for a preserve hunt for the dogs. (One is 12 and aging waaayyy too fast) Want to enjoy one last good day with her. Never thought Id have to pay to see birds.
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Deer Scouting was the right move. I got permission to hunt on quite a bit of land this weekend so that was good. Found a white tail heaven to fill our doe permits and possibly my buddies Buck Permit.

Saw 3 very nice shootable 130-150" mulie bucks (my brother and I hope to get one of them) - all typicals and no broken points and a wild ass whitetail buck that we'd all love to pull the trigger on.

Hunted one field and saw 2 birds and heard one crowing off in the distance. The land I am deer hunting on and usually pheasant hunted on literally from 08-'10 was as good as anything in S Dakota - there would be literally thousands of birds. The 2 main farmers in this pocket didnt change their practice much and leave some windmills on and still leave some fields fallow with weeds and tumbleweeds etc. I sat there from 415pm to dark Sat evening talking to the farmer - the wind had died, and it was amazingly calm. Not one bird crowed or flew into roost in any of the cover around. Last year there was still some birds left and we had lots of fun. This year I just dont know. It is so damn dry there. Oh well. Like I said, I think Im doing some more deer scouting next weekend and if I get a wild hair will walk a field.

I dont ever hunt N of I70. and Ive never seen it this bad, I did a lot of bs'ng with some older local farmers -- 60-70 - they do not ever remember seeing it like this as far as a lack of wildlife. One farmer that gave me hunting permission I believe farms somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 sections or more. I lost track on the landowner map. He said the only thing he killed or had to worry about running over with his combines this year were badgers.

We need this drought to break. I dont like seeing dust storms where you cant see stuff 3-4 miles away because its so hazy.


That being said all of the grazing is making some nice habitat should we actually get the rains. If we dont get the rains next year God help us.
 
Hunted McPherson Valley Wetlands, Approxamatly 30 minutes had past . Rooster flushes Left to Right one shot rooster down, Tug is to my right yell dead bird and short chase have a nice retrieve . Also had a nice point on a hen . Saw about 4 hens and 4 roosters this morning , tracking them flying out early, overall good day !
 
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