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Classic S. Dakota hunt = Awesome!

Posted in News, tagged , , , , , , on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The classic South Dakota pheasant hunt involves a crowd. Hopefully, safe and amiable folk who share their shots and become friends by the end of the hunt if they weren’t when everyone climbed into the truck that morning. But this wasn’t one of those groups. Sure, it was all of the above, but times two. [...]

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Awesome Upland Road Trip: Sharptails redux

Posted in News, tagged , , , on October 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

What hits you first is the quiet. A weekday on this South Dakota prairie must be today, what it was when Lewis and Clark traversed it 200 years ago. Stillness, interrupted periodically by the soft luffing of the occasional breeze. But mostly silence.  One, two centuries ago, you could feel the deep, visceral rumble of a [...]

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Road trip, South Dakota edition, part one

Posted in News, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on October 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Drizzle. Cold. Wind that runs up your pant legs all the way to your heart. That was today’s leg of the Awesome Upland Road Trip on the Ft. Pierre National Grasslands, and it was spectacular. Yes, the meteorological conditions were daunting, but they improved as did our spirits. And the hunting, if you’re into body counts, [...]

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‘Twas the night before …

Posted in News, tagged , , , , , , , , , on October 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Do you remember Christmas Eve? Maybe you went to mass, there might have been  a party, possibly a big dinner with cousins you saw but once a year (and never liked anyway). But after all the ceremony, once dishes were dried and put up, when the lights were doused and you were tucked into bed with sugar plums [...]

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Sign of the times? Awesome Upland Road Trip continues close to home

Posted in News on October 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

That old saying “You can never go home again” is never truer than when you’re locked out of favorite hunting spots. When you’re blocked from other nearby coverts, the phrase burns deeper into your consciousness, begins to have real meaning on a personal level. That was yesterday’s leg of the Awesome Upland Road Trip. One of [...]

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