Originally Posted By: Rhino20Question 1. Do you use a seat or chair? If so on the ground or swivel or ??? pics please.
Doesn't matter, I use a folding chair for prairie dogs, a camp stool for coyotes, mainly because it's not as noisy. If you have an elevation advantage with short grass, I've carried back a shooting mat and laid on that using my bipod. During the summer, always have mosquito dope, my preference is Bushman.
Question 2. Do you have a good way to ask to hunt a persons land? A great approach or things you are sure to cover? Do you provide an agreement you both sign? If so please add.
Just drive up, introduce yourself - both name and town/city you're from - if from a crappy liberal town, state you're a conservative with a smile (providing you are a conservative). In today's environment with the chicom virus scare - offer to shake hands, as you're introducing yourself - I personally know people/ranchers who won't talk to you if you don't offer to shake hands. Just so happens I'm one of them that has no time for pencil necks or snowflakes.
If allowed permission to shoot/hunt - remember their name, write their names down as soon as you get in your vehicle. If you plan on returning, purchase a gift for the wife & kids and a separate gift for the man of the house. I get a box of chocolate turtles for the Lady of the house - A gift box from a custom chocolate establishment will cost around $40.00 plus shipping for 15 turtles. I normally purchase a bottle of booze for the guy unless he's a non- drinker. Ask him what is his favorite - most will say "you don't have to do that" - DO IT ANYWAY. If he's a non-drinker, maybe a Yeti or similar hot coffee mug?? Western ND is cowboy/ranch people - self sufficient, straight talking - for most anyway. For the gentlemen I purchase - Pendleton 1910, 12 Year Canadian Whisky - cost around $40.00 I do this every year for every rancher who's land I shoot on - plus the turtles, of course.
Question 3. Once you shoot them, what do you do with them? If it is in the summer or the pelt is not great? What disposal?
Ask the landowner, he'll tell you his preference. If pasture type land - I just leave them where shot in the summer. If crop land, drag them to the road ditch if public land - if land owner wants the carcass removed, then take them a couple miles down the road and throw them in the roadside ditch (if legal in your State) - no worse than a vehicle hitting a deer - the deer are thrown in the ditch. Never throw a carcass in a river/creek or any body of water!
Thanks!!