My neighbor and I decided to do some prospecting in Southern Minnesota on Friday. We saw the biggest group of birds I have seen in Minnesota, about 75 feeding in a picked field, a good 20 roosters but nobody was home at any of the farmers around 
This seemed to be par for the course, we just couldn’t get on land because nobody was home. We were getting antsy so we hunted a big public area. We saw alot of hens and it was a great workout for the dogs but we ended up not seeing a rooster to shoot all day. 12/13 Saturday had me out with a customer. First of all they got alot more snow than the Metro so alot of spots that were good last year were drifted over, if we found good cover we found birds. We hit several spots and started getting a bird here and there. By the afternoon we had 3 as we hit our last spot. There were tracks all over in a slew with picked corn and alot of spilled grain. It was some fast action with alot of hens and two more birds in the bag. After shooting the last cock about 20 birds got up and glided back down about a hundred yards away, when we got there Lindy was going nuts, four hens got up then a rooster which we got. After that 5 more roosters got up one after another but we had filled out so we just watched them sail away 
Another bright spot on the trip was the Hungarian partridge we saw, 3 different coveys but they were all in plowed fields and very spooky flushing at 70 yards so no shooting. Its nice to see there making a comeback. I made up for a slow day on Friday with a good day on Saturday 
December 14, 2008 at 2:08 pm
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