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Hey all, I know this is a bit OT, but there is an O/U in here. I ran across this one, vintage and fun to watch. A bit corney in some spots, but classic. It does bring back some memories for the "Good Old Days"

Best,

Greg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0O2LCnCRyM

Greg I enjoyed video,V8 International truck and I saw a Lincoln with suicide doors. Bobby

Interesting to compare the amount of weeds in the cornfields to today's cornfields.

Yup!! Clean farming and weed control has done away with that!!

Interesting on the thoughtful and important land-management undertones; not to mention the music. Memories are Made of That

Thanks for the link to the past


Berrien

Man, forgot how big the trunk was on a '63 Continental. Also in days gone by all the guns coming off aircraft.

Mike

Granted even today South Dakota is still as desolate as the dark side of the moon, but I noticed the change in landscape, with more trees and tree lines.

Great video.

I sure remember those days. It was Kansas, not South Dakota, but other than that not much difference. Thanks for the memories!

Never had a 60's pheasant experience but do remember several 30 plus covey days in the same era. My home farm had seven or eight distinct coveys. We kept three for dog training only, i. e. we never killed more than two or three birds a year out of those.

Back then there were many fallow fields, weed fields which almost all had one or more coveys and anyone could hunt them. Fields had weedy margins, ditches had narrow strips of trees and brush. I use to walk out my back door and go from farm to farm, weed field to cut over timber and could hunt for three miles in one direction and almost five in the other. Just a boy, a pointer or setter, my 28 ga. Model 12 and a pocket full of shells. If I got hungry I could eat a few turnips as snacks. Life from many viewpoints was as good as it could get and we never knew it at the time.

A few years later we started clearing all the ditches of trees, weeds and brush. Edge cover was gone forever. Weeds were for the most part killed by spraying herbicides. Crops went from truck farming, mixed grains, pasture, fallow fields for soil bank. All were planted and entire farm went in corn or beans. You could look a mile in any direction and not see one speck of cover. No wonder quail numbers collapsed. Mono farming was short term profitable but long term devestating to game. And like many farmers at the time we thought we had to do it. Now I've spent 20 years reversing what we did in five years.

Really important:

"but I noticed the change in landscape, with more trees and tree lines."

We need to find a path back to tree lines

Best

Berrien