Recent content by matto

Have you done testing on the parents, hunting or health?

If it's a day trip I'll hunt both my vizslas at the same time. But then there are my two hunting buddies. They both have dogs, a lab and a WPG. Both those dogs stay much closer than mine so there is no real conflict. If all three of us are hunting, there will be 4 dogs on the ground. On...

A plat book is a hybrid of an old school phone book with a land ownership map. It's sort of a paper version of onX, but WITH a phone number (often) and without the imagery. The ones I have cover one specific county, and they are quite old. There is a section with a map of each township with...

I don't know anything about where Final Rise is made, but I'd double check your info on Pyke. When Pyke first came out that guy was all over the podcast circuit pimping his gear and that it was all made in America. I'm sure it was at first. I mentioned the "made in America" thing to a couple...

A couple comments on these three. 100% agree about raptors. Much worse than coyotes! If that once a year caller is a "friend" wanting to hunt with you, I agree. That's not a friend, that's a parasite. If the caller is a hunter asking permission to hunt your ground, I'm not sure. As a...

The triple crown in Kansas is doable. I've seen all three species on the same WIHA, but not on the same day. At this time of year the best tactic for chickens is to stake out a feeding field and pass shoot them as they fly into the field every morning. That used to be the only way I hunted...

Pressure is definitely higher this year, but there's also more birds. A buddy and I started yesterday on some private and found better numbers that last year, and better than we expected. There was also a covey of quail where there hadn't been one for 4-5 years. We moved on to WIHA after...

I love my Meindls. I'm in my 3rd season with the Comfort Fit Hunter, uninsulated. It's unfortunate that they aren't working for you. Just goes to show how individual boots and shoes can be. Which model do you have?

Wheat stubble grown up with weeds was important habitat back when it was a thing. One of the better fields I've hunted in last few years was wheat abandoned due to drought that had grown up with weeds. This was in the 23-24 season. This link goes to a version of Randy Rodgers' research (cited...

Link: https://kswildflower.org/flower_details.php?flowerID=303 Also called Poke weed.

Pretty good season so far. We've seen better numbers than last year, both pheasants and quail. The pheasants have been much more "bunched up" than I expected for as early and warm as it has been. Where I saw 4-6 last year, I'm seeing 10-15 this year. One small spot that normally has maybe...

My thoughts exactly. My wife and I have an on-going disagreement about me hunting alone. I don't do it often, maybe twice a year, but it really makes her worry. She'd prefer I not do it at all. It helps if I stay closer than an hour or so. Fortunately we don't have a lot of cattail sloughs...

+1 for pokeberries.

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...