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This is prime time for quail season!!!!! Saturday, the weather will be perfect. We're gonna hit a patch of piney woods that produced 4 wild coveys in 3hrs last year.

Adam

come hang out here. You'll pretty soon wish for winter again... 4th day in a row of 40C or so, another yet to come... it's probably just about sterilized the paddocks of stubble quail...

Skeetx, tell us more about your Browning barrel fitting project on another thread. Thanks.

We have lots of real water, what with some 200 glacier lakes within 2 hours driving time of Henry, SD.

The perch bite has been real good and the walleye bite good.

Boredom is never a problem around here if you own more than one dog, an ice fishing shelter, a computer and a couple of book cases full of books.

Additional to all of that, Mother Nature takes great glee in blowing your drive full of snow three or four times a week, sometimes more. Running a big snow thrower can be entertaining.

Heck! Once in awhile we even go to town.

eightbore, have done, Superposed Stuff
Mike

Bird hunting is done here. Dog training never ceases and never fails to provide some fun. Preps for next fall are well underway.
Jim

We can shoot targets here in northern WI, but you need to pick your days. When it was -20 a week or so ago, probably not the best weather. I have about 15 chukars yet to shoot up at a preserve and I have to do that before the end of Jan, but we also have about 2 feet of snow on the ground. Of course the guys planting the birds probably won't get far off the trails either--but I was hoping for some better conditions.

If I were in CO, I might think of heading down to AZ to chase some quail. Reports sound halfway decent this year.

Bob, I hear you on the frequent "snow showers". We don't have much problem with wind and drifting here in the woods, but these darned nuisance snows cause me to get out the John Deere and blow out the driveway fairly frequently. What was supposed to be 2" turned into 10" to blow out yesterday. At least that one justified the effort. Not to mention scooping snow and frozen poop out of the dog runs.

Teach those dogs not to soil their kennels, old buddy. Frozen poop is easier to pick up out in the airing yard than it is to scrape off of a run floor.