Hunting Washington Forum
Other Hunting => Upland Birds => Topic started by: poulsbo on January 02, 2010, 09:13:52 AM
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Just trying to look at some options for next year i was wondering if the Block management program had any decent ground to hunt, looked at the Dakotas but everything is at least $125 a day per gun to hunt.I hear eastern Mt. has some good upland populations, A rancher in Bker told me he's never seen so many pheasant in one area as he had around Lewistown.Figure i better start researching now.
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Larry (Olddog) went to South Dakota this year and had a good time. He did a self guided on public land hunt. He is planning on going back again, maybe check with him for some info (if you are interested in So Dakota area).
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Thanks for the heads up gasman i'll look into that.
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we hunt it every year. this year was horrible due to a june snow storm that killed a bunch of broods. I averaged 2 rootys and a couple sharps a day, that is usually only a few hours of work. check the weather and the forcast in the spring.
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I went to Montana for the pheasant opener and we did great where we were at. We had 5 days of limits in a row on pheasants and mixed in some huns and sharptail to top off the afternoons. I can't wait to go back.
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are you way east montana?
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we were in the helena/GF area. my family is from there and this was as bad a year in that area as could be rememberd. did see some good mulie bucks though.
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i hear there are alot of birds around the Denton area.
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I didn't see a lot of pheasants aroung Lewistown or Jordan. I'd look at North Dakota - loaded there. There was a TON of pressure in the Block Management units in Montana. The farmers get like $10 a hunter from the state and one farmer I spoke with said he had over 1500 hunters sign in and come through his propertyduring the season ! - mostly for pheasant. We never saw any pheasants there but some small muleys. North and S. Dakota are where you want to go for pheasant.
Want to hear about Crazy ? How about one of those English Style Pheasant hunts in Oregon - they release 1500 pheasants that fly over your group - do it twice daily. Nuts ! Not a typo !
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1500 pheasants twice a day? That IS crazy. Crazy enough that it would have to cost at least 15 thousand dollars for all those birds. How could anybody afford to pay for that?
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Corporate groups would pay for it. You know one of those business retreat/team building activities. They do the same thing in South Dakota on some of the bigger ranches. 15-20k for a large business is not unheard of.
Just let me loose in the landing area with my dog, :mgun: is that to much to ask? :cue: :EAT: :brew: Sounds like a great day to me :IBCOOL:
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I'd guess there's not much of that happening in this economy.
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I went to the Treo ranch in Or. they have one large const. co. that spends in excess of $70,000 a year there for hunting.
