by Gary Howey | Sep 5, 2019 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field
If you head several shotgun blasts in late afternoon outside of town on Sunday September 1, not to worry as it’s the opening day of the dove season. In South Dakota, the dove season runs from September 1 through November 9, 2019, with the Nebraska season opening...
by Gary Howey | Aug 31, 2019 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field
Over the years, my predator calling buddies, Larry Myhre, Bill Christensen, Simon Fuller, Ben Bearshield and I have spent hours calling predators in Nebraska, South Dakota and Iowa, and even had predators sneak in on us while hunting turkey in other states. This...
by Gary Howey | Jul 19, 2019 | Fort Kearny-NE
As I mentioned in previous articles, doing what I do for a job, has given me excellent opportunities to spend time with some of the true legends in the outdoors, those I’ve written about in our Legends in the Outdoors columns as well as others. I’ve spent...
by Gary Howey | Jun 9, 2019 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field
It had been one miserable spring turkey season, with downpours and heavy winds for weeks at a time, making it tough not only to call birds, even tougher to get to them. Because much of the land we hunted was located along minimum maintenance roads or where we needed...
by Gary Howey | Apr 5, 2019 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field
Reprinted from the Sioux City Journal This is the second in our “Legends in the Outdoors” columns. This week we highlight the life of our good friend the late Jim McDonnell, Royal, IA. If you ever attended one of the Mitchell, S.D., Cabela’s Fishing...