Recent content by ksimons

I know I didn't make this clear in the first post, but I do not own the land and will not have anything to do with managing it. Basically we are trying to set up a mobile home as a rental to people staying in town to hunt on our relatives land. He runs his land anyway he wants, I don't have...

Thanks for the thought. I may not have been clear. My father in law own a home, my wife's childhood home, but it is vacant and we use it off and on when we are in the area. I needs work. . . a lot of work. He also owns a mobile home in town. It is empty and would be simpler (read cheaper) to...

My father-in-law owns two houses in Miller and lives in Aberdeen. His brother owns several thousands acres and charges $52.50 per day to hunt. He approached my father-in-law about setting up some kind of partnership where by my father-in-law rents out his extra housing and his older brother...

We hunt my Father-in-law's Brother's land. When people called him about coming, he told them it would probably be best to stay home. Normally we spend the week trying to avoid the 3-4 big crews he has hunting his 7k acres because we don't pay and are smaller. This year, we pretty much had the...

We went out 2nd weekend. As the crops came down we saw more and more birds. Some were young rooster, but there were some big birds. I would say only slightly more young roosters than normal. We probably saw more birds this year than we did last year. They were holding incredibly tight. It was...

in 2009, we were hunting Saturday evening of 2nd weekend. Corn on one side of the road and CRP what was being stripped up into hay on the other. We hid behind the bales and spread out. Then two guys walked the edge of the corn. As the birds got up they hit about 20-30mph wind blowing from the...

I live in Fargo and have a Jack Russell. My wife doesn't want a Lab or any other 'big dog' (I know!), but we would be interested in a small Bird Dog. In reality, this dog would be a family dog first, as I would only be hunting about 10-15 days a year. Let me know if you have something in that...

Howdy all. I have lived in Fargo for the last 5 years. Sadly, I always spend the $100 and hunt at the in-laws place in SD. I have been thinking about getting a hunting dog, but know I will need to get out more than once a year if I want it to be a good bird dog. Any suggestions for public land...

Where did you hunt around Miller? We hunt David Simon's land North and East of Miller about 10 miles. This summer, there sure seemed to be a lot of big roosters along the road out to the campground. I am hoping for good hunting. This year we only have 3 guys and 1 dog, so the lack of cover might...

This is the first weekend I am renting it out. I wanted to see how it went. We agreed to $35 per guy per day with a min (guys and/or days). The wife wasn't please about it, so we said we would see how this week went. If all is well, then that would probably be the rate. But I am always open to...

Hunted Thurs the 19th through Sunday the 23rd Thurs and Fri were pretty good. There weren't as many birds, but our take was about the same. If we were better shots, we could have come close to our limit. In previous years, with less guys we were able to get about the same number. With 9 guys...

We hunt second weekend. It sounds like it has been pretty good around Miller from some other reports around this board. We'll see what happens tomorrow. I am not really ready to rent the house yet. I was hoping more for next year when I may be retired. I really had no idea there would be that...

I believe that would be my brother David you are talking about. I sent you a message. Birds are down, but they are out there. Big thing this year will be that most of the crop will be out. That should give the hunters some help in getting those that are out there.

I have a 1970's mobile home on a city lot in Miller SD for sale (or rent). It has 3 bdrms and 1.5 bths. Roof isn't leaking in the trailer, but some drips in the entryway. The floor is solid and it is all cleaned out and ready to go. The appliances are there, but old. There may need to be some...

We were preparing our lodge for 2nd weekend today and saw a lot of roosters along side the road around Miller. We spotted about 25 roosters, all big and only 1 hen. My brother's wife said they haven't seem much on the way back and forth to chuch like they have the last few years. Most of the...