Recent content by ben ji

Update on this - Hunted two more times around New Years and last weekend. Around New Years the numbers were still good and I think I got 8 in around 3 days (1 man 1 dog) but they were getting sparse and jumpy. At the WIHA honey hole I mentioned above I saw probably 20-30 birds get up and fly...

Milo is all over out in Western KS on dryland fields. It's basically a wheat/Milo/corn rotation out there for anything that does not have irrigation, after the Milo/corn harvest its fallow until the next fall when wheat is planted.

All the public WIHA land is published by the state in an online atlas, you have not needed a plat book in years. The area around Hays is probably the best if you are looking for both quail and pheasants. If you go much further west towards the Colorado border the quail numbers drop...

Glad you had a good time with the kid and dog, one of the things I love about pheasant hunting is the worst case scenario you still hiked a couple of miles through nature and got to enjoy being outside. I hunted out in NWKS for the third time last weekend and one thing that really stuck out to...

The first year I went hunting was without a dog and I would just walk the thick spots of CRP and try and get anything that flushed. I know I got at least one but I was hooked. The next year I got a bird dog and saw 10x as many birds at the same spot vs walking it solo, plus it makes it a lot...

Last year one of the fields next to the farmhouse was wheat that was cut with a stripper head, the tall stubble was loaded with birds all winter. It was hard to hunt since the birds could just sprint down the rows but provided excellent cover compared to low cut wheat or harvested corn/Milo...

If she's not carrying a gun she won't need a license. The only way she could possibly get in trouble is if she is carrying the dead birds in the field with you and you get checked but even that is a maybe.

Good advice here on the roads and not just rain. Even 1 inch of snow can turn some dirt roads into grease by the afternoon. It snows 1 inch overnight and you're thinking "Great! I can see some tracks in the snow to know If there are birds around!" You drive to your spot in the morning when the...

I've only hunted 2 days so far in NWKS but the numbers were better than anything I have seen in 6+ years, especially compared to the drought years of 21-23. I limited out both days but the weirdest part was all the pheasants were killed where I normally don't have much success near the old...

I bought some random vest on Amazon 6 years ago for dirt cheap that is just now falling apart, will probably just buy the same one again. All I need is lightweight, pouches/openings for birds in the back, some bandoleers on the front for ammo and some pockets for dog treats/water/etc. If its...

I normally hunt about 5 hours away from where I live and throw all the birds in the "garage/workshop" fridge from 1975 until the day before or day that I leave. Then I do a rough clean outside, breast them out and take the legs then do a little more cleaning inside (rinsing off feathers etc...

Bird numbers out in NWKS were the best I have seen since I started hunting 6 years ago but it was definitely spotty. 1 man 1 dog and I got my limit each day which has never happened before. We have an old farmhouse on some family land I was staying at where I killed most of the birds. The...

You cant bring up songs about bird hunting without including the turnpike troubadours greatest jam, my favorite part is the end "Just a song about bird hunting in southeast Oklahoma".......but its so much more

I'm heading out this weekend because last weekend they were finally cutting the Milo on our land in NW KS. IMO Its not really worth it to hunt for birds until the crops are down, just too many hiding places while the crops are still standing. Which brings me to stripper head harvested...

There is nothing better than a light 1 inch snow overnight so that you can see pheasant tracks the next morning. You can do all the scouting you want but its the easiest way to know if birds are actually in the field you are hunting. A couple of years ago I was hunting a harvested corn field...