Recent content by Chestle

I know of a guy that South Dakota GFP hires to cull coyotes from the air in a piper cub. He waits till he has snow cover so they show up and are easy to see. Recently in just over two hours he and his gunner got 42. I don’t think there’s any shortage of coyotes

"Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is looking" - Charles Marshall

So I guess Kansas will become like the other stocking states. Hunters will follow the delivery trucks around and jump in right away to shoot the flare nares. Sounds like an admission that good habitat is never coming back

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Another tidbit: "Pheasant History Redfield's claim as the "Pheasant Capital of the World"® dates back to 1908. The first successful stocking of pheasants in South Dakota took place in June, 1908 when H.P. Packard, J. Schalkle and H.A. Hagmann secured three pairs of pheasants from Grants Pass...

Check your Direct Messages. I had a dog with those symptoms; she recovered.

My heartfelt condolences to you. It is one of the worst things in life.

BB.....looks like the fish ain't biting. 🤣

"Long before CRP, wheat stubble that was knee high was the best habitat in Kansas. And it really got good when the weeds grew after harvest. " Yep. l was hunting that stuff and it was pretty dang good.

You might try raising your comb to move your eye up. The easy/cheap experiment is with a roll of Dr. Scholl's moleskin at roughly $10. You can just layer it until you get the height you want. Measure that and then there are decent stick-on pads of different thickness that last basically...

Bob, great video. Seems like a lot of towns met the troop trains with pheasant sandwiches. I screen shot the recipe in that video for those that want to recreate what they handed to the troops.

Riverview?

Anybody ever read Bob Greene's Once Upon a Town? It's the story of the North Platte, NE Canteen during WW2. My father went through there on his way to the Pacific; he said the book is very accurate and it was an amazing experience to get off a troop train while it made ready for the next leg and...

The wife of the farmer that taught me pheasant hunting used to can chicken and noodles together to have meals on a shelf. It was really good too. I see no reason why it couldn't be done with pheasant.