Sunday, October 16, 2005

South Dakota rocks Pheasant season opened here in South Dakota yesterday, and there were birds everywhere. Lee Harstad and I rolled into the state about noon today and stopped for lunch at Three Z's in Britton. Bought a non-res license at Cliff's One-Stop and it was off to meet a group already hunting. As we were getting our hunting clothes on, Lee yelled "Hey, Dan! Look at this!" I looked up to see a flock of blackbirds flushing out of a cornfield to the east and another flock even bigger flushing to the west. Then I realized they were PHEASANTS, not blackbirds! In less than two minutes, I saw more wild pheasants than I have seen in 20 years in Wisconsin. Shooting them was another matter. The group had already bagged 10 birds in their first two passes through CRP land. We joined them to pursue the birds that had flushed from the corn, and in the next hour, shot 8 more to fill our 6-man limits. After a fantastic dinner at Golden Upland Game Lodge, the guys are BSing and I'm trying to post just a little mention of what we did today. Sorry it's so short. Gotta hit the sack. Later... 10:47:30 PM    comment []

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