08/31/2026
FIELD NOTES: North Dakota Deer Picnic 🦌
Seven hours of driving round trip might be a little ambitious for a picnic… but when deer people are involved, apparently that’s perfectly reasonable. 😂
Had a great day at the North Dakota Deer Picnic at the beautiful Sandy Oaks Lodge. It was so good catching up with familiar faces, meeting some new deer farmers, and spending the day talking deer.
And I have to give a shoutout to Bob Miller — those impressive antlers behind me belong to bucks he raised.🦌
Long drive, good people, beautiful place — definitely worth the miles. 🦌
And with breeding season getting closer, it was a pretty good reminder that the busy season is right around the corner. 💙