Every October, Drew spends a good amount of time up in little Pollock, South Dakota. Mostly for business, with a little hunting time for himself. I was on maternity leave last year and was able to go for the first time with the boys to try to pheasant hunt and see what it's all about. I fell in love with the peacefulness and beauty of the area, and that made the decision of what to do with my second week of vacation this year fairly easy. We just don't get that kind of quality family time together when we are here at home.
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| Griffin has learned to wink if, you didn't notice |
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Cotton was on his maiden hunting trip and did GREAT!
sadly, we were too busy to get more pics of him |
We had a little time to kill before getting there, so we made a quick stop just down the road at the burial site of Sitting Bull. This site is on an Indian Reservation. You can tell they don't put quite the effort and $$ into monuments that the United States typically does. It was still a very cool thing to see.
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| selfie with Clay that I had to send to JD |
Our first morning was rainy and cold. We drove into North Dakota and stepped out at our first spot. I was determined to actually get a bird this year, and I was faced with a real dilemma. Do I take out my phone to capture the huge double rainbow I was staring at, risking that a bird would pop up at any second out of the corn and I would without a doubt miss my shot? Pheasant hunting is so fast-paced and you never know how many chances you'll get. I would have liked to get a panoramic shot of the whole rainbow, but instead I settled for a couple quick snaps AND I ended up getting my first pheasant. I hunted for days last year and did not get a single one. This was a big deal!
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| Griffin got to haul some hay a short distance with Gary Nagel |
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Cooper got to hang with Pa and Ike while we drove from
spot to spot on the same farm |
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| Ike and his dog Cricket |
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on this day, the high was in the 30s and it spit snow with wind gusts of 30 mph
awful to stand in, but the best hunting |
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Drew shot a buck one evening and we all went out the
next morning to track him down |
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| found it! |
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| Merlin's dog Hunter, one of the best |
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| a nice, old 8 point - most impressively weighing in at 225lbs |
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| Griffin didn't enjoy the smell while Drew field dressed the buck |
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| lots of wind towers going up outside of town and the locals aren't happy! |
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| Tammy and I had a great time and lots of laughs |
Maybe we can make it happen again next year. Griffin is already asking when we can go back!
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