K-ler's Kennel

K-ler's Kennel Owner and trainer of field bred English Springer Spaniels. Participates in field trials, hunt tests and HUNTING!

Last day of this South Dakota trip. I did a quick one hour hunt with Porter. Saw two roosters, shot two roosters. They w...
12/16/2024

Last day of this South Dakota trip.
I did a quick one hour hunt with Porter. Saw two roosters, shot two roosters. They were holding reasonably tight in the higher wind.
Now we're headed home.

12/16/2024

Day 4 in South Dakota - the evening.
There is only one restaurant left in Arlington, South Dakota, and when I went in there tonight there was a sign saying "Private Party Only", as it turns out they're now closed to the public on Sunday nights.
I was headed back out the door when a woman came running into the entryway and grabbed me by the arm and said "Would you like to eat some prime rib? We have lots of it left over ".
(She was the mother of the groom, and her brother is a local pheasant hunting guide.)
So I crashed a wedding party, ate a prime rib dinner with all the fixins, drank a beer, and all it cost me was listening to the guide's tales of how great his wirehairs are. 😂
Gotta love small town South Dakota.

Day 4 in South Dakota - the huntStrange mild day with temperatures reaching 35 degrees. The tracking snow melted this af...
12/16/2024

Day 4 in South Dakota - the hunt
Strange mild day with temperatures reaching 35 degrees. The tracking snow melted this afternoon.
Birds were extremely spooky. Bart drew the first shift on public ground and pounded the cattails, but I didn't get any shots.
I hunted Porter on private ground in the afternoon and we had no action until 2 p.m. then I had two multiple flushes within about a ten minute span and managed to shoot two roosters. (I had a chance for a pure double, but whiffed on the second rooster.)

Porter got in on the action during the first hunt of the day. Bart got his turn busting cattails later on. He's so tired...
12/15/2024

Porter got in on the action during the first hunt of the day.
Bart got his turn busting cattails later on. He's so tired he can't keep his eyes open monitoring the activities in the motel room. 😂

Eleven year old Bart is still getting it done.We took a quick photo break at the end of day one in South Dakota. We kept...
12/13/2024

Eleven year old Bart is still getting it done.
We took a quick photo break at the end of day one in South Dakota. We kept it short because the windchill barely got above zero today. We're looking forward to warmer temperatures the rest of the trip.

Porter says "we worked darn hard for that one". I headed north to chase grouse, and the birds are mostly winning. They'r...
12/08/2024

Porter says "we worked darn hard for that one".
I headed north to chase grouse, and the birds are mostly winning. They're hiding in conifers for the most part, and flushing away from me so I hear them but don't get shots. But it warmed to 40 degrees this afternoon and we finally saw some tracks and found a couple birds on the ground. This one flushed across the sun, but it headed across a clearing so I waited until I could see it again and folded it with one shot.
This old guy feels the extra effort expended from slipping, stumbling, and sliding through the 4" of snow. I'm a little more tired than usual after hunting these spots.

Instead of fighting the crowds for Minnesota pheasant opener I went north after grouse. I took Bart and Porter for a qui...
10/13/2024

Instead of fighting the crowds for Minnesota pheasant opener I went north after grouse.
I took Bart and Porter for a quick hunt Thursday night, then hunted Friday and Saturday with pretty good success.
We're finding plenty of birds, and I'm getting shots at some.
Sunday morning I'm sitting in my camper listening to the rain, so today may be a wash out, and I might just head home.
It's been fun!

Red sun tonight as it sets. Darn humid out there, so I shortened the evening walk with Bart and Porter.
07/30/2024

Red sun tonight as it sets. Darn humid out there, so I shortened the evening walk with Bart and Porter.

The dogs get plenty muddy in our backyard these days, especially Bart. There is plentiful mud in our cattail strip due t...
06/19/2024

The dogs get plenty muddy in our backyard these days, especially Bart. There is plentiful mud in our cattail strip due to all the recent rain.

Livin' the good life! I loaded up the dogs, took the camper and headed to Beaver Creek Valley State Park yesterday after...
06/06/2024

Livin' the good life! I loaded up the dogs, took the camper and headed to Beaver Creek Valley State Park yesterday afternoon. I set up camp, walked Bart and Porter, and got in some flyfishing.
There's no phone reception in the park, but I forgot my breakfast eggs at home so I went into town for provisions.

We had a good day to wrap up our Minnesota upland hunting season. I took each dog for a hunt and we bagged four ruffed g...
12/29/2023

We had a good day to wrap up our Minnesota upland hunting season. I took each dog for a hunt and we bagged four ruffed grouse. All are big gray males. 😮
I saw 16 grouse and got shots at seven. Pretty good for late season.

Normally, this time of year I'd be taking day trips to Western Minnesota to hunt pheasants, but the crazy warm weather m...
12/28/2023

Normally, this time of year I'd be taking day trips to Western Minnesota to hunt pheasants, but the crazy warm weather means there is no snow to force pheasants out of the grass, the cattail sloughs are wet and muddy, and the ice is unsafe for hunter and dogs.
So, instead, I headed north to chase grouse again. I did a short hunt with each dog this afternoon before the main event tomorrow. Unlucky Bart didn't get any flushes. ☚ī¸ Porter flushed four and we managed to bag two. Not a bad start! 👍

I think the dogs are happy to be home. I hunted both for an hour today. Porter on private land in South Dakota, and Bart...
12/18/2023

I think the dogs are happy to be home. I hunted both for an hour today. Porter on private land in South Dakota, and Bart on a Minnesota WMA. I saw three roosters with Porter but they were well out of gun range. No shots fired.

We did better today. One jumped in the cattails between me and Joe Eischen and tried to backdoor us. I turned and shot i...
12/18/2023

We did better today. One jumped in the cattails between me and Joe Eischen and tried to backdoor us. I turned and shot it a split second faster than Joe.
Then Joe's dog Gus got on a cripple in the cattails but it got away from him. We let the dogs work and about a minute later Bart brought the broken wing rooster to me. It looks like Gus got his tail.
Joe shot another that Bart flushed toward him, so we all got some action.

12/17/2023

Blanked! ☚ī¸
Hunting buddy, Joe Eischen, was red hot early and limited out in under an hour.
But I had a combination of bad luck and bad shooting today. I walked 10 1/2 miles and had a couple of golden opportunities to connect on roosters, but couldn't make it happen.
Oh, well. 🤷‍♂ī¸ Tomorrow is another day.

I didn't have as much luck today. I only fired two shots. One at this tight-sitting rooster, and a long one trying to he...
12/16/2023

I didn't have as much luck today. I only fired two shots. One at this tight-sitting rooster, and a long one trying to help Joe bring down one he had hit.

And that's a limit! All three were shot off of the same public spot. I've been hunting it for the better part of three d...
12/14/2023

And that's a limit! All three were shot off of the same public spot.
I've been hunting it for the better part of three decades and I don't know that I've ever seen this many pheasants late in the season.

The first hunt of the trip went well. Two roosters in the bag before lunch. I hope to get another before it gets too war...
12/14/2023

The first hunt of the trip went well. Two roosters in the bag before lunch. I hope to get another before it gets too warm.

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