Our small group of five pheasant hunters and five bird dogs did well hunting in an area just a few miles South of Hitchcock, SD.

Good bird dogs can make all the difference in pheasant hunting.

We bagged our limit 3 out of the 5 days that we hunted. If we had shot a little better we would have bagged our limit every day.

I had one crippled bird get away every day ! Most of us had one bird get away every day, some crippled some not hit at all.

I shot one roster AFTER one of my friends had already shot this same roster and with a pillow sack full of feathers left behind that roster kept right on going. WILD pheasants are tough to kill. Chips off of a clay target count as a dead bird. 20 feathers blown out of a pheasant just mean shoot again quick !!!!

We drove 5 to 10 deer out of the cattails every day that we hunted. The bucks will wait until you step on them or the dogs bite them before they will flush.

Good Hunting To You All, Jent

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