Pheasants 2007!

[Mayfly]

So.........Is anyone else starting to think about chasing some roosters??? I know where I will be opening morning 


Time to start to get that dog moving!

[JD]

Oh yea, I'm already thinking about shooting them roosters.

[rem]

3 weekends already booked

[schwinger]

Does anyone ever stop thinking about pheasant hunting? I can't wait.

[Berettaman]

Been thinking about it a long time already....since about an hour after the season closed!

[Mayfly]

I know what you guys mean

Last season was a bust for me. Although I shot a ton of birds and had a blast I only got out a few times ::) Just so busy at work and never enough time. It is also hard to leave the daughter on the weekends when we can spend all that time together Can't wait until the day she can come with.....then we just might pick up and move out to pheasant country for the season! I was waitching some video from past years and looking through pics. Its gotta be my favorite.......slip bobbers or pheasants??

[thunderpout]

Hey Mayfly.... what do ya mean start?  As soon as the season's over I have maybe ten minutes of depression, then Im lookin at next season!  The chick mortallity rate had to be pretty good this spring, at least in the central part of the state where the spring and early summer was fairly dry, although a friend that I work with who lives south of Owatanna said the spring was alot wetter down there....  But my buddies hunt pheasants north of the cities and things are lookin really good for us this fall as we saw tons of birds, especially hens, last fall...and yeah, yer not the only one who didnt get out as much as you'd like...thats the curse of bein an avid outdoors person that has too many pokers in the fire as my dad always said....... yep,  three months ta go, time to start gettin your and yer dogs feild legs (and lungs) back, just start slow and careful with the hounds in the heat!!!     -thunderpout 8)

[icebanger]

i cant wait was at my buddies today looking at my new puppy and i cant wait to get her out chasing what im hearing everwhere i go roosters ::cheers::

[Spinach]

I'm ready to go allready too!!! I'm planning on taking a lot of trips down to SW Minnesota and at least 1 to the Dakotas.

This year we will start running and biking in the 3rd week of August, I ride my bike and the dog runs behind me, we usually start around the 2nd week of September, but this year we need to be ready for the pheasant hunt at the MNO Fest, we'll just train in the late evenings after the sun goes down.

[Merimac]

Now the quiet period is over.....  Anyone interested in running dogs?  My Setter is at bird school until Sept.... But I have my girlfriends 7yo lab.. It has never been hunted.  And I would like to just get out..

Merimac

[GOGETTER]

 :gunsmilie: Okay Gang::  Just returned from a round trip to S.D. and the western part of Minn. is loaded with Pheasants.  In one 6 mile stretch I counted and quit counting at 100 birds.  Hens, Roosters, chicks of various sizes.  It looks good for the shooters and dogs this fall.  Yea Haw!!!!

[Mayfly]

:gunsmilie: Okay Gang::  Just returned from a round trip to S.D. and the western part of Minn. is loaded with Pheasants.  In one 6 mile stretch I counted and quit counting at 100 birds.  Hens, Roosters, chicks of various sizes.  It looks good for the shooters and dogs this fall.  Yea Haw!!!!

That is great to know!!! Looking forward to another incredible year

[Buster]

I can't wait either. My dog will be 17 months starting season, a little young last season.
If he chases roosters like he chases anything that moves in my yard now, should be interesting. Game farm for tuneups soon, and yes endurance training for both of us.

[Buster]

Heading to Brookings area early Nov. First trip to pheasant nirvana. Anybody been to the area? any suggestions?

[Munk]

I'm ready to go allready too!!! I'm planning on taking a lot of trips down to SW Minnesota and at least 1 to the Dakotas.

There aren't any pheasants in SW Mn!!!!

[BirdHunter]

i am booked out until pheasant is done in iowa the 10th of jan.  i go out to SD 4 to 6 times with 4 of them being 5 days and the other 2 being 2-3days --- it is a lot of fun!!  a lot of birds last yr!!  i got my dog hunting at 4 months and had it hunting in SD when 5 months and shot 58 birds over her the first season with her---never to young to get it hunting if it has good genetics. by the way the dog is a springer spaniel--great pheasant dog now she is 4 and is a old pro at it.  fun part is --- i can have her flush or "point" (sits when bird is right there) the birds so i have the best of both worlds.

[Roosterslayer]

Yeppers, I cant wait, 30 days and one hour until the opener in SD. I am already having dreams of birds filling the skys and our freezers.

[Mayfly]

We made our hotel reservations yesterday.....a little late so we didn't get the rooms we wanted but we did get some!!! Looking forward to heading out at about 1pm on Friday Oct. 12th! I love that drive.

 

[Mayfly]

It was a bit delayed this year because I have been so focused on bow hunting but man am I getting excited!!!!!!!

Here are some pics from the 1st 2 weekends of 2006! Lots of birds out there!








Pictured is my buddy Brians dog...he is not in the picture.





















Steak and dog food....What Luci gets after a long weekend in the field

[The General]

STEAK!!!!!!!!!!  Good thing my dog isn't reading or seeing this 

[rem]

I have been seeing alot of birds looks like a bumber year. Last year all my groups were filled out by 2,  I think this year will be by noon