I certainly enjoy and appreciate your sharing your frequent hunts. I’m pushing 70 and live in Idaho with far fewer pheasants and love watching good hunters and good dogs. Thanks for your enthusiasm,

South and North Dakota have the best Pheasant hunting potentially in the world. Almost all wild. Anyone who says otherwise is a fool. Now if I could just manage early retirement and a nice relocation 😂.

Nice to watch! I'm old now but I had 5 springers and to watch there excitement when they hit a track is so fun to watch! Thanks for sharing it with us.

Yes, we shortened the Illinois season in the 90’s, eliminating the January segment. But it was range deterioration, isolation of winter habitat, and hen energetics associated with disturbances that did it. Thankfully, SD is like apples & oranges compared to Illinois. So far, looks like your winter is a good one for carryover, keep our fingers & paws crossed.

@lilbrowhydaw

4 ай бұрын

Yep, it all adds up, but I think spring & summer are the most critical to having a good population in fall.

Immensely enjoy your videos. Thank you. Brings me back to my youth hunting pheasants in Central and western Minnesota with my Browning A-5 and springer spaniel, Rip. Some trips to SD too. Moved to new hampshire 40 years ago and there are only released pheasants on a few small fields. So switched to ducks on the salt marshes and a lab that can handle the tides.

@lilbrowhydaw

4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoy them. Ace & I sure have a lot of fun together. Putting together another video as we speak.

GOOD BOY ACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great video again Brent…right? Thanks for sharing.

@lilbrowhydaw

4 ай бұрын

Thanks, Doug, I'm glad you found it somewhat entertaining.

Good stuff Brent! Good work Ace!

I've not road hunted before so decided to give it a shot on the last Sunday afternoon of the season. I got 2 roosters from a place before the dogs got into a nasty fight with a humongous raccoon. Since I could not carry my firearm onto the private land, separating the dogs from the critter was quite an ordeal since the dogs basically ignored the ecollar signals. With the dogs all bloodied, we just came home to treat their wounds. That was how our season ended.

@lilbrowhydaw

4 ай бұрын

Oh no, that's terrible. I hope their wounds were not too serious and that they make full recoveries.

@in.hindsight

4 ай бұрын

@@lilbrowhydaw They're both fine. Three raccoon fights and a skunk spray this season.

Please tell me about Ace. What bloodline is he.? Also, tell me about your camera. I thought I heard you call it a GoPro. What model is it? Love watching your dog work love watching wild birds. I live in New Hampshire and there are no wild pheasant. I am lucky, and I get to hunt on a preserve that I am a member of, but I know it is not the same by a long shot. I also get a hug ruffed grouse. We have plenty of those.

@lilbrowhydaw

4 ай бұрын

Mark, thanks for watching. Glad you enjoy the videos. My camera is a GoPro 11, & I use Shotcut editing software. It's free, user friendly, & doesn't leave a watermark. I barely begin to use it to its full capability. Ace will be 5 in April, so he's got 5 seasons under his collar. He's really getting good & meets my expectations. Obviously I don't train to a terribly high level, but we're lucky to be able to hunt over 30 times a season. I got him from Ten Bar Ranch Springers in Lake Andes, SD. He's my 3rd once in a lifetime springer in a row.

The first rule they teach you is you can’t stockpile pheasants, which is true; however, what percentage of those January roosters make-it to the following Spring & Fall? Dispersal helps pheasants persist in high numbers, I’m just trying figure-out what that January extension means to long term population trends? Winter weather? Make for a good study. Thanks Brent & Ace!

@lilbrowhydaw

4 ай бұрын

My replies keep disappearing. Maybe 3rd time's a charm?? My opinion is hunting through January has zero effect on populations. Very few people hunting. Not enough to disturb them & not enough to affect rooster-hen ratios. I suspect in areas with good winter habitat, at most 25% of pheasants succumb to an average winter, probably less.

Another excellent video. I assume when the rooster falls onto a private landowner’s property, it’s legal to go on their land with your dog to retrieve it, correct? And that is why you leave you gun near the road rather than carrying it onto the property with you?

@lilbrowhydaw

4 ай бұрын

Exactly. Thanks for the compliment.

Doesn't the right of way hunting regulations state the birds must take flight from the right of way?

@lilbrowhydaw

4 ай бұрын

My replies keep disappearing. Maybe 4th time's a charm? In SD a bird must flush from the ROW or be flying over the ROW. I should've laid off that last rooster.

Where I’m from it’s illegal to shoot from the road and most definitely illegal to shoot across one.

@lilbrowhydaw

4 ай бұрын

Oh? Where's that? Almost, but not quite, anything goes in South Dakota.

@bright2915

Ай бұрын

​@@lilbrowhydawI would be arrested if I did that in Wisconsin.

Great video , ace is a great dog , guestions , are you shooting non toxic shot ? And are there any sharptails or Huns in ur area ?

@lilbrowhydaw

4 ай бұрын

Thanks! That day I was shooting Boss bismuth, because I'd been on my way to a WPA. But usually I shoot lead when I can, including hunting ditches. No sharpies or Huns in my area. Used to be good numbers of Huns, but with changes in agricultural practices, they disappeared quickly 30-40 years ago.

Good job!

I got it. I suspect you’ll be at the fest, enjoy it! I was gonna go but, can’t find a dog-sitter.

YOU SOUND LIKE YOU HAVE A ANGER PROBLEM !!!!!! RELAX OK ?????

@lilbrowhydaw

3 ай бұрын

Lynn....shut up. Mute the sound or just stay away from my channel completely. Either is fine with me.