North Bound to South Dakota

[Bruce Day]

Next week the gang will be heading to SoDak for our annual Parker pheasant hunting trip. Charlie Herzog and I have 7 month old Llewellin setters that have been pointing, shot over and doing well, but we will be cautious with them. Most of the bird finding will fall to the older dogs, my old pointer, Chalie's Lab and Pete Kappes' setter and pointer. The corn is coming out of the neighboring fields and the corn is left in at our place and the birds come to it.

We have Charlie, Jim Van Blaricum and his son in law, me and my son thats here( the other is in DC working for his congressman) , Greg Dershem, Pete Kappes, Ron McDonald from Tasmania, John Dunkle, and lots of wild pheasant and prairie chicken. I can hardly wait.

We always bring a bunch of Parkers, high to low grades, various gauges, and people can try each others guns. I bring a Colt SAA and we have our lunch time shooting contests.

We have John Dunkle coming in and I will be looking and lurking for photo opportunities.

I have an article to write for the Pheasants Forever magazine about Parkers and pheasants so I will be looking for material, and where John is concerned, comical material to publish.

Here are a few from past years: