South Dakota Pheasant

[TheSparkens]

Heading to South Dakota on Thursday for four days too Pheasant hunting paradise. Can't wait !!!!! birds are up 46% and last year wasn't bad.

[Jumpstart]

Where in SD?

[TheSparkens]

Farms around Winner.

[Jumpstart]

I go around the Aberdeen area.
Haven't been in awhile. Heard there have been some down years recently in the NE part of the state.

[hunterhawk]

Buddy in NODAK is having a blast.. We usually go in November every year as well but I drew a deer tag this year... Feel worse for my pup than for myself!

[patrick0685]

lucky...i dont think i will be able to make it this year

[SamuraiCO]

Pics

[stenz]

What's an out of state license cost?

[milwaukeeshaker]

The pheasants are like sparrows there, they are everywhere!

[Trout Hunter]

What's an out of state license cost?


Usually $115 ish. We usually do a trip out to the Highmore area.

[fj605]

They should be combining corn by now. That'll make it easier to get the birds in the air.

[TheSparkens]

125.00

[TheSparkens]

Thats one of the things you deal with this time of year the birds will be in the stubble, we will be using a champion dog and two others that hunt well. We have 10 guys all know and hunt together. What we have heard from the locals one who we hunt with is that the birds are up 46% from last year and we saw a shit load of birds last year. We all got are limits. We have a blast when we get back to the lodge and get about a hour of sleep and start over. I always come back in pain from trudging through the milo and cat tails. I have a German Shepard that hunts like any good dog she learned with two German short hairs. I will post pics. I shoot a 870 most of the time but got a new Banelli SBEII from the custom shop. I CAN'T WAIT to get it in the field.

[Trout Hunter]

Do walk in areas or private ground?

My favorite thing is setting new guys up on the end of a wind row and then pushing it to them. Nothing like seeing a couple hundred roosters come out and the new guy piss himself from there being so many and usually doesn't eve get a shot off cause its hard to pick out one to shoot at.

[fj605]

I did a lot of that when I was still living in Iowa. I'd also beg my dad to leave a couple rows of corn standing for a few days so they could fill up with birds and then let the dogs go flush them out. He always refused until last year when my brother-in-law asked. Too bad my dad and BIL couldn't hit water if they fell out of a boat. Someday I'll go back and teach them how to shoot birds.

Another fun trick was standing on the platform next to the cab of the combine and shooting birds as they flushed.

[TheSparkens]

Its pretty organized we have one on each flank two to three blockers at the end and the remainder down the rows. All private land but the birds are not planted. The farmers make good money and sometime hunt with us or guyed the fields, You are hunting Milo, corn, CRP and cat tails. It is cool to see the reaction of the guys at the end of the rows or blockers when they flush up at the end of a row, or when we drive the ditches and jump out and start flushing as your crossing the fields. I have heard of guys combine hunt the darn things drive them self anyway.

[JohnnyDrama]

Have fun up there. I saw a ton of birds in North Dakota this summer.

[TheSparkens]

Thanks guys pics to come soon.

[TheSparkens]

Here are a few pics.

[SamuraiCO]

Nice to see. Hope the walk in areas in Nebraska and Kansas provide as much fun. I go to see my dogs work and hopefully everything comes together and I get a chance to shoot a few.

Good start to hopefully a productive season for all of us. Still looking to hook up with Sniper and his setters.

[TheSparkens]

I haven't had my dog out so I didn't bring her to S.D. I will take here to public land in eastern Colorado if she does well I will bring her to Kansas. She can sniff out turkey but I am not sure what to do with that because I love to call them in. I know one thing she has no problem with guns, she was sitting next to me when I sighted in my AR and didn't even flinch.