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Send us Fan Mail Chaos & Mayhem Opening week of South Dakota's pheasant season.   MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.

Send us Fan Mail   MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career.  Chaos & Mayhem in South Dakota. Lots of grouse, huns, pheasants and hunters too! Several day hunts from five weeks spent in South Dakota last season.  "One morning I left the truck at 11:00 with Mayhem and was back before noon with the three bird limit. A clean triple...

Send us Fan Mail   MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career.  Spent 8 days chasing chukar, Huns and valley quail in Oregon and Nevada. Lots of birds but not so great dog work. Still had a good time and can't wait to return next year. The quail saved the trip. Lots and lots of quail. No dual limits in this episode, but still a lot of...

Send us Fan Mail MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. This was in the "good ol' days" of ruffed grouse hunting in southeast Minnesota. Back when the daily bag limit for woodcock was 5 birds. Hunting with a buddy Russ and his lab Char, we shot 19 ruffs and 14 woodcock in two days of hunting.       I had tried for severa...

Send us Fan Mail MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. Several 2023 pheasant hunts in Iowa. Chaos and Maybe both got limits. Lots of birds! We even shot a few sharptails in Montana. 

Send us Fan Mail MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. Seven days hunting pheasants and sharptails in South Dakota with Maybe and Chaos. The dogs were too clownish to compliment, but with my expectations, they did just fine. We even took a couple of combo limits of grouse and pheasants.  I threw in a short story about a ruffed grouse...

Send us Fan Mail MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. Chaos & Maybe Exploring Idaho for next trip from Thanksgiving to Christmas.  Took a couple of newbies on sharp tail hunts (lots of birds!) and looked for better partridge hills than I've hunted in the past. Both dogs earned Story Bands for 1st Idaho Sharptail and 1st Dail...

Send us Fan Mail MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. I can't say too much good about "Critter". She hunted the tail end of the southern Minnesota/Iowa ruffed grouse years, the best Kansas and Nebraska pheasant years, and a half dozen Dakota years.  This hunt was a seat of my pants exploration into northern South Dakot...

Send us Fan Mail MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. Miss Bodet, took 3-roosters in Iowa & 2 in Minnesota in the same day on public land. Then on another trip I knocked on doors in South Dakota and shot limits of pheasants for 6 days, without paying a fee.  Bo was only a couple years old on these hunts.  

Send us Fan Mail MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. Yeah, I was a whole lot younger back then, and those two pups were pretty special dogs.  Critter & Woogs as pups, hunting ruffed grouse in southeast Minnesota and pheasants in southcentral Minnesota. This was the first time that I tried to take this combination limit, instead...

Send us Fan Mail MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. I was fortunate to have hunted Kansas and Nebraska when both states had a lot of pheasants. At that time, and for decades to come, I believed this hunt was the epitome of pheasant hunting. I only surpassed this day one time, on a hunt most of you have listened to in an earlier epi...

Send us Fan Mail MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. Follow along on a dogless prairie chicken hunt in Nebraska. This was early in a 5 day prairie chicken hunt in Nebraska and South Dakota. It was my first attempt at a combo of 3 chickens and a fall turkey.  The previous "Double Limit of Prairie Chickens" episode, was two...

Send us Fan Mail MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. Had a solid few days hunting quail in Idaho with Chaos and Maybe. I tell you about my 2021 season and maybe you'll understand why I didn't have much to talk about.  

Send us Fan Mail MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. Mostly chukar hunting with Chaos and my new pup Mayhem.

Send us Fan Mail MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. This episode has the best coyote calling advice anyone could give. The two most important factors for setting up your best opportunity for a successful shot. Stopping a coyote exactly where you want him and how to select the best stand location. These two practices will greatly in...

Send us Fan Mail MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. More calling how-to and gear suggestions.  There's some important information here mixed in with hunt stories. I could have saved a lot of money and shot a lot more coyotes if I knew this stuff 30 years ago!  I have two more coyote calling episodes in the works. I'll dis...

Send us Fan Mail MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. I've been calling coyotes for more than 30 years from Arizona to Montana and love coyote calling only second to upland bird hunting. If you've ever thought about calling coyotes or are looking for new information, you'll want to give this a listen!   This is the fir...

Send us Fan Mail MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. Unexpected late season pheasant and sharptail "fun" hunt in South Dakota. Me and Chaos hoping to average 2 birds a day on a 4 day mid-December public land hunt. We just hunted a few hours each day and still averaged 3 birds.  10 roosters and 2 grouse.   

Send us Fan Mail MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. Hunting pheasants and sharptails in the tall grass of western South Dakota. Chaos and I take the combo limit of Sharps & Phez on two of five days and still have a day for North Dakota. 

Send us Fan Mail MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. A buddy and I hunt opening day in Iowa, I finish the day hunting Nebraska. Then we head to South Dakota for 5 days of pheasants and sharptails. Lots of birds!

Send us Fan Mail MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. Chaos and I just returned from a four day pheasant and grouse hunt in South Dakota and we took the 6 bird combo the first two days of our hunt! Give this episode a listen to get your dander up for a hunt of your own.

Send us Fan Mail MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. A little talk about last week's sharptail hunt in the Dakotas and a re-live of a sharptail & Hun combination limit I took over two pups. 

Send us Fan Mail MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. Follow along with me and Critter, as we take a triple limit of 3-pheasants, 3-sharptails and a fall turkey in South Dakota. 

Send us Fan Mail MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. Bobwhite quail from Oklahoma to Nebraska, Blue quail in New Mexico, and Valley Quail in Idaho, Oregon & Nevada. And a short story about Gambel's and Mearn's in Arizona. Mostly limits over Labs with a little Springer work as well. 

Send us Fan Mail MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. I can't believe I'm doing this. I got no sense! Now I'm going to find out of state plates at every one of my rooster hidey holes. Bo's turning over in her grave and Chaos is whining, "Don't do it dummy!".  How I shot more than 50 roosters off the...