Looks like a great time. Been a long time since I've bird hunted. Use to have brits and hunted 3 or 4 times a week all season. You guys cleaned up on the deer heads if u found all those.

Cool! What direction from Phillip...?

About 7-8 miles north of Phillip and about a mile west, there is a bed & breakfast operation (or at least there was) that is located in an old Minuteman ICBM launch control barracks. The below ground "hole" has been filled it where the on-duty 2 control officers were down in with their "keys" but the barracks are prettyKansas?
he same as they were. Actually pretty spartan living given the importance and cost of such a government "program". This center controlled a "flight" of 9 Minuteman II missiles with a single warhead. The missiles were in individual silos located in the general area.

There were 3 flights to a squadron, 3 squadrons to the "wing". The wing command was out of Ellsworth AFB just east of Rapid City. There was a squadron north (northeast of Spearfish--most north and east of Bell Fourche), a squadron northeast of Rapid (mostly Meade County), and east of Ellsworth, including the Phillip area. Down on I-90, east of Rapid, a single missile silo and a nearby flight control center have been saved generally "as is" as the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site (I may have the official name messed up a bit) and both can be visited. The missile silo is open whenever but the control center visit has to be booked in advance. The two locations are administratively linked to the nearby Badlands National Park. All this info is pre-covid so I suspect that visits to the control center have been suspended.

All the other silos (imploded) and control centers (the "holes" filled in) have returned to private ownership. Many of the former silos spots still have their 40x40 meter perimeter fence and some have their "numbers" hanging on the fence (e.g "D-9"). Some have been turned into hay storage yards, some still are just "there". I think a couple of the other control centers have families living in them. Its sort of a surreal experience driving around a generally people empty cattle range and dry crop landscape if a person knows that they were. Then again, that's why they were placed out in the "boondocks" to begin with...

Is that a Greater prairie chicken on the edge of the bumper ?
the Ruff opened up like that looks interesting.

Did you see any Hungarian partridge on that trip?

It was a blast but I am ready to get home and put steel in the ground. We did find those dead heads along with this one and the 2 sheds. How are the birds over in kansas?

No sure didn't. That's a bird I have never laid eyes on.