You may find it hard to believe but I enjoyed a couple days off the grid. Only used my computer to import photos from my camera and a couple of the guys I was hunting pheasant with. It was a nice break but I’m back at ZimmComm World Headquarters and ready to rock and roll.

This is our group with most of a day’s batch of feisty pheasants. Central South Dakota conditions were just about perfect. Sunny, dry but very dusty. The birds were there but we had to cover a lot of ground to find them. But after is was over we all had our daily limits of roosters!

We hunted on a row crop/livestock farm. It is a beautiful operation. Most of the birds we found were in Conservation Reserve Program fields with shoulder high grass. That made for some leg muscle burn! The farm is a good example of how serious farmers take responsibility for good care of the land they tend. They’re helping feed many other people, taking care of the environment and providing an opportunity for outdoor recreation. It doesn’t get any better than that.