Western North Dakota Tradgangers?

[Pinecone]

Happy New Year!
I've accepted a job to run a health system in North Dakota and will soon be relocating to that State's hallowed hunting grounds.  Just checking to see if there are any Tradgangers in the vicinity of the Badlands???
Thanks!

Claudia

[Doug S]

Wow what an addition to the state of N Dakota. Good for both of you. You'll find us trads and all people few and far between. I am in western S Dakota from Ohio since March. Am just finishing my first hunt season. Went on a trip to the Killdeer mtn this summer. It's different out here, but pleasant in ALOT of ways.
 The thing I miss the most about the area where you and I are from is the traditional get togethers. Have to travel a bit to find even a 3d shoot.  
Welcome

[Pinecone]

Well, Doug...we just might have to start our own shoot!  It's time to spread the Trad spirit around a bit       !

Claudia

[Doug S]

I have been thinking that.

[Roger Moerke]

Good luck I think you will like ND but your gonna probalbly be shocked for awhile with the winters! IF you have never experienced a blizzard you most likley will out there. But its kinda exciting as long as you are not caught out in one.Hey if your gonna have winter lets have winter!!

[Steve H.]

Congrats on the new job Pinecone!

I saw this thread and BEFORE I opened it I said PC is moving to ND!

The badlands are soooo cool.  I like 'em.

[Slim Buttes]

Pinecone, Welcome to wide open spaces. ND is a very hunter friendly place.

Doug where to do live in Western SD. I've heard there are quite a few trad shooters in Hot Springs.  I live in Chadron, Ne 50 min south of hot springs.  There may not be as many trad folks, but hey we don't have that many people period.

[kojac]

pincone, what town in ND will you make home?

[Doug S]

Slim,
I am in Spearfish.
There are a few in Hot springs. They are having a shoot sometime soon. Not sure when. They also put on the prairie states trad shoot. I think it is every 2 years and moves around. Not sure. I went this last year and had a good time. It's a bring your own target shoot. Some pretty amazing targets.

[PrarrieDog]

Looks like I am in the triangle. Casper, Wyoming.
Half way from Spearfish and Hot Springs but to the West. Looking forward to all of us getting togeather some time. Keep us informed as to the trad shoot in our neck of the woods.
aald welcome Pine Cone.
Prarrie Dog

[Pinecone]

Brian,
I'll be in Dickinson...not too far from the Montana border and a whisper away from the badlands.  Very cool!  
Roger,
As for the Winter's...I say bring 'em on!  That's why I own all this wool...might as well put it to use    !

Claudia

[Doug S]

Claudia,
 We almost had a baby in Dickenson on our trip to the Killdeers.  You'll be in a god location to hunt 3 states.

[NDTerminator]

Pinecone,
I'm in Devils Lake ND, about 4 hours east of the Badlands.  Been hunting the Badlands for over 20 years, it's my favorite piece of wild land (although nowhere near as wild as it was back then before anyone knew about it).

I love the Badlands so much that I have a Chek Mate Hunter 56 being made as we speak, and this bow's name will be "Little Mo" (named for the Little Missouri River).

When you get to Dickinson, look up Billy Frietag, who owns Little Missouri River Bowhunting & Badlands Guide Service.  Billy and I go back 20 years and have shared some good campfires & hunts out in the Breaks.  Billy lives bowhunting and knows more about the Badlands than anyone I've ever met.  Tell him Jon Barnett pointed you his way.

You'll find ND is so rural and our 11 major cities (Devils Lake is the smallest of the 11 with a population of 7500) are so spread out that we think nothing of driving 2 hours or more to eat out or shop.  

You'll also find ND to be an outdoors-person's dream.  It hardly gets better for bowhunting and with only about 600,000 people in the state, there's lots of elbow room and deer considerably outnumber humans.  

Resident deer and antelope bow tags are $20 over the counter.  A deer bow tag allows you to hunt anywhere in the state and take either species, either sex.  Goat tags are either sex, and also $20.  Moose, elk, and bighorn are special lottery, once in a lifetime draws.  I drew a moose tag in 90' and took a 700 lbs dressed cow.
We regularly see moose around my farmstead.

In September of this year I paid big bucks for a Doctor & Lawyer elk hunt on the Ft Berthold Indian Reservation on the north end of the Badlands (the reservations have their own G&F regs independent of the state) and took a 340 class 6 point bull during the rut.  It was a once in a lifetime hunt for me, and worth every nickel.

BTW, we like our tough winters.  Helps keep the riff-raff out...  :D

[arraflipper]

Pinecone,

Congratulation on the new job and place to live.  That is some pretty country out there, and lots of it, too.  I went through the Badlands after a snow storm.  I saw one other vehicle and the views were awesome.

If you come north on your way out there stop by, I am not far from I-80.

[Hot Hap]

Good Luck on the new job and the new hunting grounds. Hap

[Jack Shanks]

A friend and I had the opportunity to hunt mule deer in the Badlands a few years ago. We camped and backpacked into the area around Theodore Roosevelt Park. Spent a couple days in Medora hunting antelope too. The local people were the best!  
 There is something special about hunting the prairie different than anywhere else I have ever been. I hope to return there again one day.

Best of luck with the new job and happy hunting!

[pete p]

i hunted a 6000acre cattle ranch in the heart of the badlands in killdeer. saw some MONSTER mule deer. i also hunted a huge tract of land owned by the hidatsu indians(sp?)on the missiourri river. awesome country

[Jason Jelinek]

I live in Fargo about 5 hours east of where you'll be.  The Badlands are great.  There is a really cool 3D shoot in Medora in August.  There's also a fellow in Dickinson that knapps you'll probably get to know him if you join the archery club in Dickinson.  Glad to have you in the state.

Jason

[gwmeyer]

I live just outside of Bismarck but do a lot of hunting in the badlands for mulies and pronghorn.  Glad to hear you are moving to the state.  

greg

[ChuckC]

Good luck Claudia.  As was said, it is gonna get COLD, but you can handle it.  As I recall, you have some bird dogs and I think there are plenty of big birds (pheasant etc) up that way.

ChuckC