South Dakota Pheasant Hunt '09

I got talked into pheasant hunting in South Dakota this year by Zach my fishing partner. I was a little mixed about going since I hadn't hunted in 20 years. We had great weather with it being sunny every day. The hunting was fair at best with allot of the fields and hunting areas flooded with water and only about 20% of the corn harvested. We put on many miles at times to find huntable areas only to find no birds or birds so spooky they were flushing 100 yards in front of you.

Anyway a good time was had by all including me. We ended up bringing home 28 birds and I guess that was enough for us. I can say I was glad I went but won't say I'll return next year. It's a trip I'll have to think about.

I hope you enjoy the pictures.

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Zach and Whiskey with 2 birds that were shot on Wednesday.

Whiskey was on her first pheasant hunt and did very well. Here she poses with 2 birds that Zach shot.

Having not hunted in about 20 years I actually shot 2 consecutive birds with 2 shots. I wasn't an ace shot but I did down about a half dozen birds, more than I expected.

Nice bird Troy, on Tuesday he was the hot shooter.

Troy and his dog Daisey with a big cock that she flushed for him.

The number of snow geese that we saw in the 5 days we were there was unimaginable. On this lake alone there were at least 100,000. We saw millions of them in our stay in S.D.

Our last hunt day was Saturday and Troy was calling home.