Recent content by johnnie15

I think the moral of the story here is to get as far away from the road as possible while hunting pheasants in SD this year. There has been very little pheasant habitat near roadways in the last 2 years, so why should anyone expect the birds to be there during the counts? Every ditch near...

You are right, $10 won't even make a dent in my beer fund for the trip. SD is the place to be for wild birds and luckily we have a place to hunt where if I don't shoot a limit by mid afternoon it's time to get my eyes checked or my barrel straightened. It is more of the principle of feeling...

I would have to agree that it won't keep anyone home who has been hooked on pheasant hunting, but unless where I am hunting is the exception, the vast majority of the guys staying at the hotel are in their 60's and 70's. Not a lot of sustainability in that...

Looks like they had over $500K less in license revenue from 2010 to 2011 based on 5,000 fewer hunters. I wonder if they realize how quickly that $1.1M will disappear if 1 in 10 hunters stay home due to higher costs and disappearing public hunting opportunities.

I would agree that knocking on doors in the Gettysburg area is only going to result in wasted gas money. We rarely see other hunters around the ranch we hunt in the area, but this last weekend there was a bus load of people at a nearby farm each day. It was kind of funny to see 16 people...

We should notify those "Occupy" protesters of the problems in SD with the way the 1% is sticking it to us poor hunters.... We have never been asked for anything from the rancher who lets us hunt, but we love going to SD and having incredible access to birds so much that we always leave a good...

Yellow lab puppies ready for new homes July 10th. The Stud Rosco is a 4xGMPR in the APLA (American Pointing Lab Association) and is half way to his AKC MH Title. Maisie has a nice pedigree with both British and American bred dogs carrying AKC and APLA titles including Rikâ??s Risky Raider. 30...