Recent content by marsingbob

In Idaho if you do not hunt in cheatgrass you do not hunt. It will be in some cover for all birds except possible mountain grouse, and even there you can encounter it while huntting ruffs. It definitely can be a problem but the danger is greatly exagerated. In late summer and early fall it...

I had a 28ga Iside. It weighed just over 5 lbs, a few ounces less than the advertised weight. Recoil, even in a 28, was pretty heavy. I think a 6.6 lb 12 ga Iside is going to have fierce recoil with typical 12ga loads.

MR I hope you are right! Maybe because you get more rain than SW Idaho, the economics of not irrigating the corner tracts are different and they will produce some revenue without irrigation. My concern is that once wells are in place and pressurized water is available, the corners are almost...

M R not certain I agree with you on the promise of irrigated land pheasants. Here in Idaho corners are always farmed with either solid set or moveable lines, and modern pivot systems an irrigate much land in the corners. At least here the few pheasants remaining are not in pivot irrigated areas.

A couple of comments on the FAIR Iside. I bought a 28 ga base model with 28" barrels, double triggers and extractors a couple of months ago. So far I am happy with it. It weighs an honest 5lbs 1 oz on a very accurate scale, and takes some practice to shoot well, but I am getting there. It is...

I hunted on Mid American land several years ago. It was better than walk-in ground, but still got a fair amount of pressure. They limited hunting to 1 party a day. Some of the areas were better for deer than birds, but almost all was worth hunting. It is too expensive for a 4-5 day hunt...

Based only on what I read and see in videos, many outfitters in South Dakota are less that forthright in disclosing to clients that they are shooting planted birds. Still, this cannot affect harvest reports significantly.

Hunt after Thanksgiving. Snakes are rare then, particularly above 3500 feet elevation

Interesting. I have cows out here in Idaho, but no milo in this area. I do not doubt what he is telling you but I am surprised it causes bloat. (I assume he grazed it in late fall/winter after the milo was combined.)

You could offer to pay him the revenue the cows produce.

I do not think you are going to find a "lodge" if you expect to have access to restricted private ground. If you are looking for lodging only I would look at the Western motel in Hill City Kansas. Their rooms have kitchens and there are a couple of decent places to eat in town. In the past...

I think you picked about the worst time to hunt pheasant. The birds get pounded on WIHA when it opens for the first two weeks. The weather can be hot and dry. WIHA were not flooded with deer hunters, but there were some and they were a nuisance and sometimes a problem. Accommodations were...

You probably want boots with fairly stiff soles and heel counters. The country will probably include a lot of sidehill walking on steep slopes. Most of the Hell's Canyon area is not particularly high and some good elk areas can be pretty low. Maybe as high as 7000 feet and as low as 4000 feet...

I do not know exactly where you will hunt, but in a state with perhaps the toughest, steepest elk country in the world, Hell's Canyon is notorious for being some of the hardest to hunt. Try to be ready, but if you are hunting the breaks of the Snake, you will not be. There are some premium...

There is very good whitetail hunting in the general vicinity of Lenore but access to land can be a problem.