Several 2023 pheasant hunts in Iowa. Chaos and Maybe both got limits. Lots of birds! We even shot a few sharptails in Montana.  ..read more

Set aside a few minutes to listen to a couple of stories on hunting ruffed grouse and fall turkey in Iowa. One hunt I call my gunny sack day with my first dog, Pitch and another hunting dogless. You'll find a few opinions sprinkled in on the relationship of turkey and ruffed grouse and northwoods grouse hunting compared to grouse hunting south of I90. Watch for upcoming episodes on sharptail grouse hunting in Nebraska and South Dakota, then sharptails & pheasants in South Dakota and ruffed grouse & woodcock in Minnesota.    ..read more

Learn how to hunt hill country ruffed grouse across northeast Iowa and southeastern Minnesota. I'll recount double limits of 5-ruffed grouse in Minnesota and 3-ruffs in Iowa in the same day. Once while hunting with a Lab and another hunt while dogless.     ..read more

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 Daily Bag Limit of Idaho Sharptails.  Spent most of this fall in South Dakota for pheasants and sharptails (Maybe earned 4 new Story Bands) and Iowa for pheasants (Maybe earned two more new Story Bands). South Dakota was very good and Iowa continues to be very good. I'm sure South Dakota will be very good again, if ..read more

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 Dakota. I was looking for a new area for pheasants and sharptails, and we found it. The strange thing is, in the following days, I found an even better area that I've spoken of in several other episodes. If you like pheasants and sharptails, you'll enjoy this talk. If you like springer spaniels, you'll love this hunt.    ..read more

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.   ..read more

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 episode.  Back in 1981, with two young dogs, Critter, a female, liver & white springer, and Woogie a female yellow lab, we took the four rooster limit in Kansas and the three rooster limit in Nebraska, seven roosters, in the same day! The three of us were fortunate to be together at a time when all species of b ..read more

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 days after this hunt. If these two episodes don't convince you to get after prairie chickens, I feel bad for your dogs.      ..read more

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.   ..read more

Mostly chukar hunting with Chaos and my new pup Mayhem ..read more