Conference vmsnet::hunting$note:hunting

1478.0. "Upland game for '95." by MULEY::KOOSER (Too many hobbies. Too little time.) Fri Nov 03 1995 11:56

For all you upland game hunters who are looking for a good place to get your
dogs on a lot of birds, S. Dakota is having another banner year.  All the areas
I hunted were public Walk in Access (WIA's).

Spent 5 days up there hunting with my vizsla and my brother's german shorthair. 
Ended up filling my daily limits five days in a row and had to leave cause I
had my possession limit (15 cocks).

Hunts ranged from 20 minutes to 2.5 hours.  Birds were plentiful.  Ended up
passing on the prairie chickens and sharptails cause I don't like the way
they taste.  Probably saw 400-500 pheasants in the five days I was hunting.
People who didn't have dogs were spending much more time afield and not always
getting into the birds.

Got a few good pictures of both of the dogs on point - it is nice to see
them finally honoring - vizsla is 2 1/2 and the shorthair is 3 yrs. old.

The towns are very hunter friendly.  

Good luck to all this fall/winter.

Mark
    

    
    RE: -1
    
    I would absolutely LOVE to hunt those areas.  Great story about
    your dogs; I'd be psyched too.
    
    Kev --