Recent content by matto

My son and one of his friends got stuck this morning after duck hunting. I'd guess vehicle inadequacy and 20-something-year-old brains had as much to do with it as road conditions, but it still happened. This website is useful for rainfall monitoring...

100% agree. On top of all that, coyotes are extremely poor pheasant hunters. To the degree that predators have an impact, it's nest raiders, not coyotes. Skunks, Raccoons, Possums, etc. are the real culprits. And coyotes prey on those, so I harbor coyotes no ill will at all. With respect to...

I've seen that before on my Vizslas, but never so bloody-looking as the first pic. A buddy's WPG gets it pretty bad. Keeping the nails short seemed to help my dogs, but maybe the skin just toughened up a little as the season went on. Now I'm fighting a similar issue with the back feet on one...

My dogs know. But they also know that we normally leave first thing in the morning. They pay attention and notice that the gear is coming from the basement to the laundry room/mud room, the collars getting charged, the water jug getting filled, etc. They don't really get excited until the...

I've seen that several times with coyotes, but never a bobcat. Pretty cool!

Sounds like a great trip! I'm glad you had fun and found some success. Scenting conditions are certainly part of it. As you pointed out, Georgia and Kansas have very different atmospheric conditions. I'm not trying to be discouraging, but there's probably a lot more. While we can't possibly...

One summer I spent some time researching commercial hunting operations in SD. My dad, in his late 70s at the time, wanted to treat me, my BIL, and our kids to a hunt. My job was to pick the spot. As we all know, consistent success on truly wild birds on pubic land takes time to develop. So...

I'd get your credit card company involved. I've been forced to do that a couple of times, back when I travelled on opening weekend and getting rooms was tough. The credit card company has backed me every time.

I'm headed NW KS to hunt with a friend and my son. I hope the rain has cleared out by mid-morning saturday.

If I'm going home at the end of the day I'll clean them in my garage. I filet out the breast meat and take the thighs if the femurs are intact. Drumsticks go in the trash. Thighs get frozen separately for one big batch of carnitas at the end of the season. Breast meat gets frozen in water in...

Ground in my area is still quite a bit cheaper. Good dryland without meaningful deer habitat is $2-3k. Irrigated ground obviously depends on the quality of the well, but maybe $5k. Way out in SW KS there's a contiguous 480 acres of good, clean pasture with a couple of solar wells and tanks...

I'm glad it works for you. I shoot a 50 year old sxs so I'm a little reluctant to stress it with a load that hot. I doubt it would deliver a pattern % higher than the 1.25oz , but the extra .25oz might deliver more hits. My second place load is Fiocchi GP 1.375@1250. Fiocchi's GP Extreme...

Generally pretty good. Dove season was terrible for me, so I didn't get much practice. I spent some time over the summer patterning various loads and settled on Kent Ultimate Fast Lead, 1.25@1345(I think), in #6. A couple others were close seconds, and I'll field test once I run out of the...

I've been hanging around this site since 2012 according to my profile. This thread and the other about Kansas's opening weekend, "Day #1...", are MUCH quieter than any previous year. It's not even close. Where is everybody?

I got off of facebook 2.5 years ago and seldom miss it. Only once did I post a tailgate shot. I'll post an occasional photo here, but only maybe a once or twice a year. I enjoy the videos that people post on here, but not as much as I once did. Pheasant cover is different across the country...