Wish I knew it then
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benelli-banger
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Don’t focus on birds in the bag, focus on steps taken or miles walked...they will lead to bird contacts....
dakotasj
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All above good advice.
Depends on size of your group but I like the smaller public areas that are most isolated with crops near by. They don't seem to get as much pounding.
Look for the state corner signs as you drive. Not all public areas are on the SD map or app.
OK that's 2.
Depends on size of your group but I like the smaller public areas that are most isolated with crops near by. They don't seem to get as much pounding.
Look for the state corner signs as you drive. Not all public areas are on the SD map or app.
OK that's 2.
jackrabbit
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1. Walk to the corners and wait a few minutes.
2. Figure out their escape route. They want to run or hide first, and fly last.
3. Look for the "cover within the cover." I used to hunt smaller pieces and avoid big mile by mile sections. Now I'm learning that those big pieces have some nice pockets of cover or different grass within the endless prairie.
4. Be QUIET! Do not slam your doors, beep your car horn when hitting the lock button, let the dog bark, etc.
5. Don't talk while hunting or walking.
6. Use the wind to your advantage.
7. FOLLOW YOUR DOG. Enter the piece of land with a game plan, but if the dog takes you a different way, follow it and go from there.
8. If it has the proper cover somewhere in the general viscinity, then it's got birds. Grass, Cattails, Tree lines, Shelter Belts, Food Source, Water.
9. If you get into a spot and it simply doesn't "look or feel right" to you or the dog, then don't waste your time. Find a new spot.
10. Hunting public land, find areas that have a decent amount of public within a few miles, 5 mile, 20 mile (whatever distance you're comfortable traveling) radius. That way if someone else is there you can quickly move on to the next spot.
11. Use that sunrise to 10am time to scout.
12. Make notes on your map.
13. It's hunting, some days you'll get an easy limit. Some days you'll walk 10+miles in the thickest cover and barely limit. Some days everything will flush wild and you'll never fire your gun. Take it all for what it's worth and enjoy the wide open area, the lack of the people, the sunsets, the different scenery you don't get back home, the tailgate lunches, the combines rolling and dust in the air (might be too late in the year for that this year).
2. Figure out their escape route. They want to run or hide first, and fly last.
3. Look for the "cover within the cover." I used to hunt smaller pieces and avoid big mile by mile sections. Now I'm learning that those big pieces have some nice pockets of cover or different grass within the endless prairie.
4. Be QUIET! Do not slam your doors, beep your car horn when hitting the lock button, let the dog bark, etc.
5. Don't talk while hunting or walking.
6. Use the wind to your advantage.
7. FOLLOW YOUR DOG. Enter the piece of land with a game plan, but if the dog takes you a different way, follow it and go from there.
8. If it has the proper cover somewhere in the general viscinity, then it's got birds. Grass, Cattails, Tree lines, Shelter Belts, Food Source, Water.
9. If you get into a spot and it simply doesn't "look or feel right" to you or the dog, then don't waste your time. Find a new spot.
10. Hunting public land, find areas that have a decent amount of public within a few miles, 5 mile, 20 mile (whatever distance you're comfortable traveling) radius. That way if someone else is there you can quickly move on to the next spot.
11. Use that sunrise to 10am time to scout.
12. Make notes on your map.
13. It's hunting, some days you'll get an easy limit. Some days you'll walk 10+miles in the thickest cover and barely limit. Some days everything will flush wild and you'll never fire your gun. Take it all for what it's worth and enjoy the wide open area, the lack of the people, the sunsets, the different scenery you don't get back home, the tailgate lunches, the combines rolling and dust in the air (might be too late in the year for that this year).
Miforester
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Relax have fun and most of all trust the dog!
A5 Sweet 16
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One thing??? 
Goosemaster
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That's exactly where a dog belongs.Not in a crate.Nice soft bed, with huge bowl of ice cold water close by. .Well done.
Goosemaster
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Ok here is one.Its hard to hunt a huge standing corn, with 2 guys!!
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Miforester
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I rather have MLB swag..........
Goosemaster
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Yep, my dog always sleeps on the bed.Always.