Episode 9 - Winner Pheasants
Some of the best pheasant hunting in the world today is in the same place I wrote about in this old story. Hear all about South Dakota's Winner pheasants in the podcast below. Just click to listen.
By the way, November and December are prime months for serious pheasant hunting. The bluebird weather hunters are gone, the habitat is reduced, the birds are concentrated, and hunting is as rewarding as it is challenging. Dogs, guns, shells, boots, coats, birds. Satisfaction. It was and still is Winner Pheasants.
And here's a blog on how to hunt SD pheasants on the cheap. Now you have no excuses. Get after 'em!
The 6.5x57, Paul Mauser’s take on the 6.5mm caliber, preceded todays 6.5mm mania by more than 120 years, yet this “antiquated” cartridge outperforms many of today’s 6.5mm darlings and runs neck and neck with others.
The .28 Nosler might be one of the most useful cartridge inventions of the 21st century. This powerful .284 cartridge is heavy and perfect for long-range shooting. It also doubles as an ideal choice for countless hunting scenarios around the globe. Everything shy of dangerous game will inevitably fall to a properly placed bullet of appropriate construction. All that out of a standard length cartridge with steep shoulders and minimal body taper to increase powder capacity.
I think I have an incurable knife fetish. I’m not happy unless I have a knife in my pocket. I feel incomplete unless I have a sharp fillet knife in my tackle box when fishing. I always carry a folding knife on my belt and a fixed blade knife in my pack if I’m hunting. Keeping my knives sharp is a year-round job.
Should sport hunting even be allowed? Let’s hope so because it’s restored and protected our wildlife and wild places against unfettered meat hunting for more than a century. Sport hunting means rules and regulations the limit killing while funding restoration and maintenance.