Chris, where are going to be hunting? State and county or town?
If its out here on the plains, people from other areas often don't realize wind is almost a constant out here, and we hunt in 10-15mph winds frequently and up to 20-25mph. The birds get even more skittish in the wind, and you have flushes at 25-35 yards despite a pointing dog trying to hold them. Within ten feet of flight, they are going 40mph with the wind and you are trying to make a 40-50 yard shot.
Not for nothing do we have the world's largest concentration of wind farms out here for power generation.
If there is a good guy who want to hunt north of the SoDak Glacial Lakes along the NoDak border in early December, let me know. It will be cold and windy with the Alberta Clipper. All wild, lots of walking. Rolling hills, sloughs, cattails and heavy cover.
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