by Gary Howey | Oct 18, 2025 | "Of the Outdoors" Columns, Northeastern South Dakota, Of the Outdoors Columns, Pheasants, South Dakota, Watertown, S D
GROWING UP IN THE SIXTIES IN WATERTOWN, S.D., PHEASANTS WERE EVERYWHERE AND WE DIDN’T HAVE TO GO FAR FROM TOWN TO GET OUR LIMITS. THIS YEARS SOUTH DAKOTA PHEASANT SEASON OPENS OCTOBER 18, 2025, STARTING AT 10:00 AM. WALKING INTO THE WHEEL INN IN WATERTOWN FOR...
by Gary Howey | Oct 16, 2024 | Minnesota
The State of Minnesota, has over 10,000 lakes, but that’s not all the state has to offer for outdoor enthusiasts like myself. I recently attended the 12th annual Governor’s Pheasant Hunt near Sleepy Eye Minnesota and was pleasantly surprised to find out that Minnesota...
by Gary Howey | Aug 16, 2018 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field
As the sun rises on Saturday, September 1, in South Dakota, Nebraska and throughout the upper Midwest, look for hunters set up on their favorite pond, around sunflower, millet, wheat or CRP fields and near shelterbelts to take a shot at dove hunting. Take...
by Gary Howey | Aug 16, 2018 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field
As the sun rises on Saturday, September 1, in South Dakota, Nebraska and throughout the upper Midwest, look for hunters set up on their favorite pond, around sunflower, millet, wheat or CRP fields and near shelterbelts to take a shot at dove hunting. Take...
by Gary Howey | Nov 22, 2017 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field
It was opening day of the Nebraska rifle deer season that found me setting on a terrace in a pasture, armed, not with my rifle, even though I had permit, but with my camera. I was hoping to get some footage of deer moving through the pasture after being...
