Bulletproof Vest Season Opener

[phenrichs]

More commonly known as South Dakota Pheasant season, opens tomorrow at noon.
For those of you who have never had the pleasure imagine a few thousand people with loaded shotguns being guided by a few hundred rednecks through waist high grass and blind cornfields.

I welcome them with open arms since I think the Chinese ringneck pheasant should be deported back to china, but I am apprehensive of people I don't know carrying guns because I have been shot by rogue hunters that didn't look through their shot.

Welcome to our beautiful state and don't worry the rain is supposed to clear and tomorrow and sunday are supposed to be sunny. Shoot the sh*t out of em. If you shoot too many call me and I will go buy a license and take them off your hands so you don't get pinched.

Most people hunt in the middle of the state but I can tell you that the north east part of the state has many birds and many public hunting areas and is less traveled by visiting sportsmen.\

GOOD LUCK AND GOOD HUNTING. Just remember that next weekend I will be turkey hunting and I shoot back.

[chainsaw]

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[macmac]

HUH? Tharts how big patridge hunting is done in the west? Not my cup of tea at all. When I go hunting I almost never see any other hunters.

Guys form a big square and walk in at one another huh? No sport there at all..

I got shot once by some fool with a .22, and he wasn't happy when I got done with him. I didn't call the cops, and I didn't put him in a hospital either, but I have my ways...

My wife says i am creative, and I know when I need, I can make most anyone miserable.

[glwilson]

OP,

Why is it that you don't like pheasants? Personally I wish we had more of them around here. Years ago they mostly disappeared in the "wild". It is rare to find any when hunting.

Around here, if you hunt pheasant, you'll be going to a private club or one of the few state parks that release them.

[unwind2]

gooble gooble gooble

[phenrichs]

I used to love them. Still like eating them. They are everywhere around my home town. People are raising and releasing them privately to drive up populations around their land. then they lease the land to out of state hunters and won't let another human set foot on it. I am a deer hunter not a pheasant hunter. By the time my season opens the snow has fallen and there are no more out of state pheasant hunters but they still won't let me hunt. I blame the birds.

[cactusjack]

Originally Posted by macmac

HUH? Tharts how big patridge hunting is done in the west? Not my cup of tea at all. When I go hunting I almost never see any other hunters.

Guys form a big square and walk in at one another huh? No sport there at all..

I got shot once by some fool with a .22, and he wasn't happy when I got done with him. I didn't call the cops, and I didn't put him in a hospital either, but I have my ways...

My wife says i am creative, and I know when I need, I can make most anyone miserable.

Mac, I used to deer hunt years ago back in Utah. Here's how it would go:

02:30 AM - leave the house
04:00 AM - arrive in Uintah Mtns, unload gear
05:00 AM - in position, wiating for sunrise
05:30 AM - sun starts to rise opposite hillside is a sea of flourescent orange. Boneheads using their scopes to see if you are a hunter or deer. Take cover and low-crawl towards truck to avoid getting shot.
06:00 AM - back to truck, heading to town for decent breakfast, then back home to watch college football.

350,000 hunters. That's why I gave it up.

[glwilson]

It remains difficult to find private land to hunt on here as well; however it has nothing to do with pheasants or any other game.

It is because of the liability of having hunters on your property. There isn't much protection for the land-owner if someone gets hurt or killed -- which is completely senseless in my opinion.

Another reason I have been told for land-owners denying access to their land is that hunters have ruined it for themselves with reckless; and destructive behavior.

I have heard stories where livestock, buildings, pets, fences, signs, machinery, and other such property has been shot -- apparently for no other reason but for the fun of it.

In Wisconsin, a couple seasons ago, several hunters got into a fight over an area. One of the hunters shot and killed several of the other group. (He went to prison for life.)

You hear of all kinds of crazy stuff.

[phenrichs]

Yeah I remember that story. Crazy SOB was sitting in his tree stand and was trying to pick em off from a distance.

[macmac]

I have seen poor hunters out in the salt marsh, and some poor hinters in the woods for deer, but most of the time I hunt off beaten places, and see no one.

One way I find places like that is to pass up any off road parked cars and go some place else.

Hunting in the east is nothing like hunting out west. A long shot around here is 75 yards.. Most places I hunt it is hard to see past 25 feet. Often times I push up patridge' and can't see them, but I can hear the low thump their wings make, and if they fly into a clearing out to 50 yards away they are mine.