One of the great joys of being a hunter or an angler is that you get to spend time in wild places. Some of them, you see only once. Others are close to home, and they become special because you go there often and know their secrets.
Hunting and fishing, like a good story, can be experienced and enjoyed on many levels.
When you go on your own adventures, take time to see everything.

When the wind blows on the prairie, the clatter drowns all other sounds, until you don’t hear much of anything. But there’s plenty to see, out to the curvature of the earth. It can be hard to tell what’s bigger, the sky or the endless waving grass.
The colors are worth noticing, even if it all looks brown at first glance. It isn’t. There’s white, rust, copper, and the toughest shades of silver and black you’ll ever come across. The wild prairie is merciless at times, and that’s probably why more people don’t live out here. Peaceful, even when it’s forceful, and one of the greatest places to hunt birds if you love to unleash a good dog and let the dog take you hunting.
If you read magazine articles about how to successfully hunt upland game, tackling enormous tracts of prairie grass, one hunter, one dog, is exactly what they tell you not to attempt. Too much real estate, way too many escape options. Get on a bird, and you will probably cross from one habitat type to another before you either get a shot, watch it flush wild, or the bird gives you the slip. But in this type of pure pursuit, talented dogs learn their craft. In this ocean of possible hiding places you get to see the real game of cat and mouse, if you can control yourself, let the dog hunt, and do nothing more than stay in position and shoot when the time comes.
The chase, in this case, is more than fair.