shagster
01-07-2008, 08:49 PM
Sorry this has taken so long to post, but it has been a busy month.
Anyways we (Glasscutter, Chase, Braden, Lane, and myself) headed to South Dakota to an undisclosed location :haha: for some good ol pheasant hunting. We ended up leaving Thanksgiving day and coming home the following Friday night. On the way we stopped at Mt. Rushmore since it was only 15 min out of the way. It was a pretty cool site to see since none of us had ever been there. I think it took us 17 hrs. or so driving time, it was longer than we had anticipated, but it was well worth the drive. We ended up having an excellent hunting trip. It was colder than a well diggers a__, it stayed under 25 degrees most of the week. I think the low was around -3 or so without factoring in the wind chill. The hotel we stayed at was packed with other hunters, but after talking to them it seemed we were the only ones getting into the birds. When I say getting into the birds I mean seriously getting into them. There were several fields we hunted were at least 300-400 pheasants came out. We were able to get some on video which will be posted soon (thanks to Sombeech for editing and compiling the video :2thumbs: ). We ended up harvesting around 90 birds between five of us. We had 4 dogs, three labs and one springer. My dog Elli, Braden's dog Izzi, and Lane's dog Corn did an awesome job. This was Corn's first hunting trip since he was only five months old. It was great to see the dog's work so well. Mark's dog Bo was on a leash the whole time so he didn't get to do much hunting, maybe next year. There is nothing better than to see your dog flush a mature rooster and then retrieve it back to your feet. It gets me all excited just thinking about it. It was truly a great trip. All I know is that I can't wait for next year. Enjoy the pictures and the video should be coming soon... :2thumbs:
EDIT - here's the video!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=g0l-MiEhUl4
...and for you poor buggers who can't get YouTube at work, here it is on KSL Clips:
http://clips.ksl.com/kickapps/service/displayMediaPlayPage.kickAction?mediaType=VIDEO&mediaId=130870&as=5124
Anyways we (Glasscutter, Chase, Braden, Lane, and myself) headed to South Dakota to an undisclosed location :haha: for some good ol pheasant hunting. We ended up leaving Thanksgiving day and coming home the following Friday night. On the way we stopped at Mt. Rushmore since it was only 15 min out of the way. It was a pretty cool site to see since none of us had ever been there. I think it took us 17 hrs. or so driving time, it was longer than we had anticipated, but it was well worth the drive. We ended up having an excellent hunting trip. It was colder than a well diggers a__, it stayed under 25 degrees most of the week. I think the low was around -3 or so without factoring in the wind chill. The hotel we stayed at was packed with other hunters, but after talking to them it seemed we were the only ones getting into the birds. When I say getting into the birds I mean seriously getting into them. There were several fields we hunted were at least 300-400 pheasants came out. We were able to get some on video which will be posted soon (thanks to Sombeech for editing and compiling the video :2thumbs: ). We ended up harvesting around 90 birds between five of us. We had 4 dogs, three labs and one springer. My dog Elli, Braden's dog Izzi, and Lane's dog Corn did an awesome job. This was Corn's first hunting trip since he was only five months old. It was great to see the dog's work so well. Mark's dog Bo was on a leash the whole time so he didn't get to do much hunting, maybe next year. There is nothing better than to see your dog flush a mature rooster and then retrieve it back to your feet. It gets me all excited just thinking about it. It was truly a great trip. All I know is that I can't wait for next year. Enjoy the pictures and the video should be coming soon... :2thumbs:
EDIT - here's the video!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=g0l-MiEhUl4
...and for you poor buggers who can't get YouTube at work, here it is on KSL Clips:
http://clips.ksl.com/kickapps/service/displayMediaPlayPage.kickAction?mediaType=VIDEO&mediaId=130870&as=5124