Recent content by Skinwalker

Thanks for confirming my decision. I have done a lot of scouting, but it is in SD. I will happy to let anyone know what area I hunted in. It was around Pierre. Great state parks set up for visitors, outstanding public hunting areas, and no double secrete BS about hunting birds. I have fished the...

I live in South Central Montana. Driving to Plentywood is about 5 hours for me and Denton is a good 3 hours. I thought that the purpose of this forum was to help pheasant hunters find birds not brag about how well you are doing. This forum is useless for me and this year I did not even buy a...

Keeping your dog intact decreases the incidence of CCL injury 2.1-fold which is significant. This issue has indeed been scientifically studied ( https://www.ors.org/Transactions/50/1311.pdf ). Neutering females also increases the rate if CCL (ACL in the study) injury. On a personal note, I...

My first bird dog was a Black Labrador named Zachary. Zack was an excellent dog and basically taught me how to hunt. At two years of age, he blew his left CCL during the hunting season. Torn partially at first and then completely. It was repaired using the Traditional Extracapsular technique...

MTtailchaser: Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I know about the lack of birds in BLM near Billings. Been chasing that dream for four years. My problem with Plentywood is the cost of a South Dakota license is more than offset by the cheap and great lodging in SD. The SD state parks are wonderful and...

Goosemaster-thanks for the response. However, if you check out the "Indicator of NE Hunting Pressure" thread below, you will see that the public land in Plentywood gets hammered. For pheasant, Montana is a curious place. Lots of birds on private land but not much on public. There are tons of...

Thanks for the reply. Now the question is: are there enough birds on public land near Plentywood to make the 6 hour drive worthwhile. My problem is that in the four years I have been in Montana, the only birds I have been able to hunt are in North Dakota and South Dakota. It is only a couple of...

Are there enough pheasants left in the public hunting areas near Denton to make the four hour drive from Billings worthwhile?

Don't worry about your dog and almost anything that they run into on prey in the field. Predators have evolved over millions of years to be basically immune to almost all diseases of their prey. Remember, our dog's wolf ancestors usually take down the old and the sick in the herd for a meal...