Recent content by FrenchBrie

We spent Sunday road hunting north of Sioux Falls and Monday hunting north of Mt. Vernon. Both areas very slow and we saw a lot of birds last year in the same area around Mt. Vernon. Saw few roosters and relatively few hens this year. Not many other road hunters either. Glad I have a farm...

I was surprised by the number of us who took up hunting as adults. You often hear how so few kids are taken hunting by their parents now and how the hunting population is getting older and older. Hunting has a very primal appeal and someone who will just try it can easily get hooked. I...

dog played centerfield I didn't shoot my first pheasant until about age 40 because I was a self trained hunter that took up hunting as an adult. None of the men in my family were hunters previously. Back to the pheasant, I was walking thru a corn stubblefield when a rooster flew sort of...

I road hunted in the Mt. Vernon-Plankinton area today but saw very little under the windy conditions. My dog flushed a few hens but the only roosters I saw flew across the road when driving back to the motel. How did others do?

I did that myself today, basically. I was walking along a gravel road south of Aberdeen. It had cattails on both sides and I assumed there was water under the cattails so there would be no birds. As I reached to see that my cell was on, a rooster flew across the road. As it turned out there...

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I have had occasion to shoot both a pheasant and a woodcock (now no puns), while standing there with my zipper down trying to care of business. I am sure you have had similar experiences.

drunken grouse I had heard that ruffed grouse get drunk on fermented berries and that is one cause of the situations where they fly through house windows. I once came along in the woods and surprised a grouse, he jumped up and tried to fly, but then sat back down again, jumped up again, and...

extra hat to let others know you are hunting there I think a lot of us leave orange in the window in anticipation of parking at the edge of a field and letting that be the sign to others we are hunting there, not working in the field, crop adjusting or any of the other possible activities that...

It took me a bit to figure this out but I found for the kind of one man-one dog hunting I do that I wanted to find a "fresh" straw stubblefield bordered by PLOTS that was thick cover. The birds were in the edge of the cover during the day, apparently sneaking out periodically to glean in the...

I hunt with Brittanies and today was the second time I have seen hawks buzz within 30 feet of the dog, apparently thinking about making a run at it. I thought I might have to shoot the damn hawk to keep him away. Has anyone else had this experience?

I had hunted SD 3 times in the past but thought I would try ND for a week this year. Hunted in the Belfield-Dickinson area. I do individual hunting with a pointing dog, really don't care for 5 or more guys abreast drive hunting. We usually do a lot of road hunting in SD. Most of the good...