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I had an old Rem Pump Shotgun (pre-Model 10) that I used for the late season, much like you do with the M-97 except I used 4s and shot pheasants. There was something neat about using a firearm my great grandfather would have thought of as new.

headed to presho, south dakota on sunday. 4 days of hunting pheasants with my son, sil, and step-sons. the boys are excited.

Congrats, that is some great shooting.

Here's a few pics from this year, haven't really gone hard of the ruffies yet, pheasants and sharpies tomorrow for a whole week though!
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It looks like the main woodcock flights have passed through, there have been considerably fewer contacts on them the last week than earlier. The vast majority of birds taken recently have been adult males with a scattering of juveniles and females unlike last week where adult males were a minority. There should be at least one more sizable flight as the final males come through, probably this week or maybe early next week. If the weather holds like this odds are good timberdoodles will be scaring me on my walk to the deer stand in a couple of weeks.

Ruffed grouse have been difficult, they are running like pheasants in a cornfield. I normally see this in the spring when chasing woodcock as the birds are adults but even this year's young are running. I have a week left to chase grouse, once deer season opens I keep the dogs in the yard and when deer season ends I get serious about pheasants.

No grouse today, but that didn't stop the fun.

So John, what is that SxS?

On our annual Columbus Day long weekend trip to Pittsburg, NH Mischief the Wonder Dog and I managed a bird a day with 16 Gauges.
Here's Mischief scouting likely covers:

Here she is hunting dead:


And mandatory gun pictures:


Not bad walnut for an economy H&R 16 Gauge.

Nice work!!!

Headed to Kansas after voting on Tuesday. Stopping in OK to visit friends and then on to KS for a week or two. The pup is 2 this year and hoping for good things out of him. He had a good start last year. Now if we can only find some birds.

Cool pictures!
My little Pug, who passed away last year, was fun to take hunting. He would happily flush roosters and Huns for me.
Good times.

Great opener for roosters!!!!

Another great morning!!!! Hope this lasts for our stay here!!

Nice!!!! Looks like a fine year is in the making.

Hope so... Have you had any luck in Pa.?????? My old friend is doing deer/turkey... His shorthair is old, and I don't think he will get another... Bum knee and 71 makes it tough...

Yes, we have been putting up a lot of Pheasants. However, they have been pretty much avoiding me on the flush and I've only killed one. Have to get after Grouse here soon, but the reports are not all that encouraging.

Well done WCH!! My plans for Iowa have been thrown for a bit of a loop as I forgot about a planned event for my youngest son. Still think I'm going to make the trip, just will be for 2.5days of hunting vs. the 4.5 days I was thinking of getting. 2.5 days of wild birds is probably worth more than the amount of preserve birds I can afford...

pointer, good luck.. The only roosters we saw today were walking a back trail after shooting time.. Maybe tomorrow...

Thanks as I'll need it! Hank's a great pal, but him and I are far from good at finding and killing birds. Hopefully the roosters "cooperate" with you today.

We are headed for Dodge city Friday morning. About a 6 hr drive