Recent content by Kal

i'm down... we'll chat as the season gets closer.

In a square area made up of Blue Earth, Mankato, Springfield and Jackson at the corners is where I spend 95% of my time hunting and scouting and I can't tell you how excited I am about this fall's harvest. I have never seen the numbers of birds that I have this year in my spring scouting drives...

I was thinking of this thread this morning while talking with a buddy of mine who is having very similar issues with his 4 year old GSP. His dog also used to guide and was fantastic in the field. (I know because I hunted behind him a number of times.) After 3 months of questions my buddy finally...

[reposted from main bird dog forum to see if any of you around the upper mid-west know of anyone mixing setters and goldens.] Toby, my 15-month-old Irish Setter/Golden Retriever was hit and killed by the rural school bus in front of my farm yesterday afternoon. What a loss. As my wife said this...

Toby, my 15-month-old Irish Setter/Golden Retriever was hit and killed by the rural school bus in front of my farm yesterday afternoon. What a loss. As my wife said this morning when we woke up at the usual time we'd take Toby for his morning walk, "This f@cking sucks." Amen, dear... Amen. If...

Toby was trained by Brian and the gang at Major Avenue and they have a beautiful property and I encourage everyone to attend the trials to see some of Brian's dogs work... he does an excellent job.

Farmers down this way are great about tossing corn in the fields for deer and birds all winter. I see 15-20 birds every morning on my walk with the dog and even more when driving from the farm into town.

Exactly what I'd do.

Unbelievable. Some of the best trail shots I've ever seen. Thanks for sharing, I'll be ordering a couple to use as Christmas gifts. Wow... just, wow.

Touche. Didn't mean to come off sounding crass, just misread your post. I guess thats the #1 drawback of "talking" through text, intentions almost always have to be inferred and apparently I did a poor job of it. No hard feelings! BAH! Some of my best hunting buddies are fellow clergymen! Now...

Thanks, Zeb lol... should clarify that I haven't tagged all of these birds by myself! I am a pastor at a country church and frequently have 2-3 youth with me while hunting as well as one of their fathers. When we get home from a hunt we divvy up the day's take and go on our way. The 54 frozen...

I currently have 54 birds in the freezer and have taken 67 for the year.... all in Minnesota. If you add in Iowa and SD birds the total number goes to 119. Granted, I am not your average weekend warrior as my job allows me to hunt every morning and every evening should I choose to so my harvest...

You explained this method MUCH better than I did... thanks!

For the first time visiting a site with heavy images, yes. However once you've visited the site your computer stores them in you cache and doesn't have to download them every time.

Used one this Thanksgiving while hunting in SD with little success... the bird I tried to clean with it looked like I'd shot it from about 10 yards with a 3" mag with BB shot. Could have been operator error, of course :)