My buddy from GA. & I had a good pheasant hunt in the SW corner of ND over Thanksgiving. We hunted private ground and saw tons of birds(we did see birds on some of the PLOTS grounds(Walk in ground open to the public) we drove by going to our hunting areas. The birds were in large groups and pretty spooky, but once we got them busted up and chased into smaller areas, we did pretty good. We probably averaged seeing 300 birds a day on the areas we hunted & probably another 300 a day just driving to areas we were going to hunt. Weather was fairly cool--8 degrees to 37 degrees during the 4 days we hunted. This area was mostly wheat stubble with dry creeks running thru it(a few corn fields). The CRP was fairly short and it was fairly easy seeing the dogs in most areas. We also saw 3 groups of huns(came up too far away) and 1 small group of sharpies(also too far away). We also had 4 jack rabbit points :roll: --one was about 1/2 as big as my female britt
Winds varied from 8 MPH to 40+ MPH(tough hunting that day--they got out pretty FAST). We were only hunting 1/2 days so we thought we did pretty good(23 roosters) for the conditions and short hunting days. My buddy considered it a super great hunt because for once he didn't run into any skunks(last year his dog got sprayed, the year before HE got sprayed)
. Her's a few pictures.
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