Recent content by matto

Mitchell county would definitely be greater PC. I saw one on opening weekend of pheasant season maybe 15-20 years ago in Gray county. It flushed right in front of me, in range, when there was still an open season in KS. My brain said "hen," so I didn't shoot. Even if I had properly ID'd it...

Pretty good info here about quail response to wildfire. https://quailresearch.org/quail-response-to-large-scale-wildfires-in-the-tx-panhandle/

The older rusty stuff doesn't worry me much; those barbs are pretty dull. But a shiny, new, tight fence can really do some damage. We were walking a road in SD two years ago with such a fence on one side. Of course a cripple ended up out there so my high energy dog crossed that fence several...

At a hotel in Huron, SD, the guy almost demanded the pet fee in cash. That wasn't disclosed when I made the reservations, but I was fortunate to have it on me anyway. It was one of those motels where I'm pretty sure it was the owner on the other side of the counter. Whether it was income...

Only one for me, but I bring a backup on overnight trips.

Buddy tried to dispute the (accurate) pet fee on a motel bill once. Then they sent him video from the hallway.

I just got back from my one annual trip entertaining one of my customers. While some of the birds were surprisingly jumpy, most were not. I saw 3-4 on the ground before the flush. That happens with wild birds once every few years at most. During this last season I saw a rooster head sticking...

Good to know. Maybe they just didn't stand out when we were looking. We handled a lot of guns that day. What you wrote about the market for Euro guns crashing is resonating. In the run-up my visit to Murphy I was looking at the AYAs shown on Bass Pro's site and the prices were surprisingly low.

I spent over an hour at Murphy's with a buddy a couple of weeks ago. He developed an itch for an sxs and Murphy has the best inventory around here. However, out of maybe 50+ that we handled, there were definitely not "lots" of Uggies unless they're hidden somewhere. I'm not even sure I...

A Prairie Chicken would be cool, but I'm not entirely sure the area I hunt for pheasants is open for Prairie Chickens. I don't usually hunt for pheasants in the areas I hunt for Prairie Chickens.

With the push-button forend latch it looks a little like the new Weatherby Orion.

I worry about my dogs more than myself. They move pretty fast and (obviously) stand a little shorter than I do. A few years ago a hunter lost a dog in an uncapped well on a Kansas WIHA. I'm always a little leery of abandoned farmsteads for that reason and also because of junk metal, broken...

I've been there every summer for the last couple of years fishing. The guides are almost all hunters too, but hunting in the area seems to be more waterfowl focused. Nevertheless, last year we saw quite few on the roadsides in the mornings and it looks like there should be pheasants around.

I've never lost one or had a "close call" while hunting. If that ever happened I don't think I'd be allowed back in the house without the dog. "Turn your ass around and go find that dog." But, I run them off leash on a local golf course in the summer. It's a pretty tight course, built on 160...

Found a couple of slugs in a quail crop earlier this year. I'd never seen that before.