The jury is still out on neo-nics. Seed treatment is generally deemed safe on bees and other insects, but there is a school of thought that when unloading seed into a central hopper(like what most farmers have now) that the treatment can dust off and enter the environment. Again, no scientific data, just postulating.
Yeah the idea is the vacuum planters blow a lot seed treatment into the air. Need a vacuum planter for higher plant populations vs finger pickup. Whether it does much, I don’t know.
Not sure why, but I've seen more spillage in the fields this fall than I have in a long time?
Yeah, I absolutely won't hunt without one any more. In addition to greatly improving your success rate, easily half or more of the pleasure I get in chasing roosters is watching a good dog work.
Yeah, I ended up getting a pup 3 years ago, best decision. It makes me get out more, it makes me enjoy the hunt more, and we certainly get more birds because of her.
Do you ever get tired of being a douche? Stick to bike riding threads.
Fences to contain the cattle most farmers had and picked corn instead if combined provded perfect cover in the 70s and 80s.
Know anybody east of you? (Hamilton county between Webster City and Story City).
Nothing better than training a dog and that first bird it brings to you.
For real!! ^^ I still remember the first time my first dog retrieved a rooster to my hand and since she was so young, and small of stature, that first fall, I really had no expectation that she would do so. But she was incredibly quick on the uptake and trotted out and stared at that dead bird for a couple of seconds and then almost as if she was a robot...picked it up and drug it back to me.
That's the good stuff right there.
Just as well he DOA. Guessing he broke his pecker......so why live?Got a Cedar Waxwing this AM. Kamikazed the window by the feeder and was DOA. Too bad...
While that first retrieve is a memory that I will always cherish...there was at least one other time that I was even more emotional over that dog. We were in a large group on opening morning and most/all of the corn was still standing. So I "walked" every drive that day, in part because I had a dog and in part because I was one of the younger hunters.
Where did you go? Do you do it yourself or a guide? I’d love to hear more detailsJust got back from our yearly panhandle duck trip.
4 dudes, 3 days, 68 birds.
Its all DIY. We stay in Martin SD and hunt in Nebraska. Not sure how familiar you are with NE but once you get west of Valentine it really transitions from the plains( hay) to big sky country, especially west of the Niobrara.
Haha... good catch. I'm sure you know it's all in good fun and I know Doobie has thick enough skin to take some BS. And 100% to your point I'll tell myself I'm slightly full of shit because at the end of the day what I really care about is can you kill birds or not.
Had A Britany a long time ago. Hunted a place west of Walker.
I have a JC Higgins 12 Guage that was made before guns had serial numbers on them which was in the 40s I think. It's a piece of shit but I've killed a few birds with it. I've only been hunting for 3 years now.Haha... good catch. I'm sure you know it's all in good fun and I know Doobie has thick enough skin to take some BS. And 100% to your point I'll tell myself I'm slightly full of shit because at the end of the day what I really care about is can you kill birds or not.
But I am a little bit of a traditionalist:
Berretta BL4 (12) top
Browning citori (16) bottom ( my preferred upland gun)
But I do have a dirty little secret:
Beretta A400 (20)
and as a waterfowler I love the third shot of my Rem Versa Max (12)
Also, care to share more about that pesky berreta? I love old dou le barrels.
