Recent content by jchristen

I'll hunt a mix of public and private in central iowa.

I'm going to give it a shot. Hopefully better than last year. Only saw three birds last year.

Hey Master Oogway, Do you run fall marathons or do you keep your racing to the spring-summer? I have a hard time fitting in high mileage running and hunting.....one always seems to suffer. -john

Would be nice to have.....we just need to form a co-op and buy it?

Nate, Since I consider you one of the expert hunters on the forum maybe you can help me out. Lets say your hunting a larger grass field say 40+ acres that doesn't have geographic features that break it up well. How does one man and a dog attack a big square field? Do you have a set pattern you...

In a bit of a funk. Three straight morning hunts with abosolutely no birds seen. I've only been hunting pheasants for 4-5 years, but I've never had that happen. Frustrating!

I got my first pup last year. Viszla/Weimeraner hybrid (also an accident litter). His first hunt was a reserve hunt for quail at about 4 months. This was after yard work and field work with birds and gun fire. His first real hunt was at 10-11 months. O/U: I think the best of the low end is...

Speaking of work. Do you save all your vacation for pheasant season or do you have a really flexible employer? If its the later, I'm going to need the name of your hiring manager there.:) I definately need to manage my vacation better next year. I didn't save near enough days this year. -john

I hunted a small piece of public land that isn't very desireable for deer hunters Saturday morning. I heard shots in the distance but that was it. I won't chance taking a brown dog and 8yr old son out on deer popular ground. We walked about an hour and half and got up four hens. No rooster...

Nate- I'm going to have to meet you sometime and have you show me how to pheasant hunt:) -john

I'll probably hold off. Just don't trust the deer hunters on public land.

Avoiding deer hunters.

We'll have to postpone, I forgot its 1st shotgun season this weekend

Is anyone interested in meeting at the Colo bogs and forming a small hunting party this coming Saturday, Dec 3? Its a big area to tackle as a single. I was wondering if there is enough interest to get a small group together to tackle it.

Went out early to local public land to see if we could hit some ducks and then switch pheasants at 8:00. All the duck activity was in and out before shooting hours. And sure enough all the pheasants flying around moved into the adjacent standing corn between 7:00 and 8:00. We Only had an hour...