![]() That is still true today, although more of South Dakota's famed pheasant hunting no longer relies on a natural hatch of birds. At that moment I learned a bleak pheasant forecast in South Dakota is apt to be utopian by any other standards. The 1966 pheasant forecast was pretty bleak, state officials had warned. Me? I'd never seen so many pheasants in the air. The year before it only took 90 minutes to get their limits. ![]() someone counted the dead birds and announced we were done we had limited out. As I recall, I think Pej did, in fact, spend most of his hunting time at the opposite end of any field I walked.Īt the noontime start of hunting (a South Dakota tradition), I joined a party of fellas from Missouri who themselves had a long tradition of South Dakota pheasant hunting.īy 3 p.m. He was a big and tall male dog who'd run to North Dakota if there was a bird to retrieve. It was October 1966 when I first experienced pheasant hunting, South Dakota style. And the prairie grasses wave with a hint of autumn gold.Īfter five hours of riding, Raven, the Lab, whines in her car kennel. There's a ringneck-rich pheasant forecast in the wind. It's the stuff that makes October a memorable month. Indeed, little is better than a Monday when you're South Dakota bound to go pheasant hunting. ![]() The truck was packed with a Lab and a shotgun and I was heading west. The bank didn't call about another overdraft. ![]() On a recent Monday, all the world suddenly felt right. You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browserĪll's good in South Dakota for fall pheasant ![]()
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