Recent content by matto

I can't help but wonder if this is a learned behavior or if the birds are responding to the smell of the seed. In eastern Kansas I've heard of turkeys eating planted soybean seed, but my western farmer friends have never talked about this before.

Can you even get 1-1/4 oz of shot in a 20 without going to 3"?

I'm hundreds of miles from you, and this isn't a CRP planting. However, I worked with the NRCS guy in the county and it's based on a CRP planting we did maybe 7 years ago? I think it has more forbs than the CRP planting, but still much less variety than yours.

PF/QF sent out an email a day or so ago announcing a new general and continuous sign up period. >>> May 12, 2025 – Washington, D.C. – Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever are thrilled to share the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency has announced a new general and continuous...

Ruffland for me.

My sxs has 26" barrels, and I wish they were longer. I shoot it fine, but sometimes I wonder if a longer sight plane would help me a little. Rogue's comments about the lack of a receiver are 100% true. My 26" sxs fits easily in a case that barely fits a 24" semi-auto that I also have. A 28"...

I once flushed a couple of birds that were essentially right next to a pretty fresh deer carcass--pretty decent buck. They flushed pretty wild, so there was no shot. It was right after firearms deer season here in Kansas and I thought the deer was one someone shot but failed to recover...

This is the one I tested. Pretty sure I bought the box a walmart for maybe $17-$18.

I moved a safe, once. When I first bought mine almost 20 years ago I borrowed a trailer, rented a refrigerator dolly, and recruited a couple friends to help. It wasn't too bad until it was time to get it down to the basement. Once that safe reached "level" with the stairs, there was no...

My data suggests that the answer is "no". Fiocchi Field Dynamics, Federal Hi Bird and Winchester Super X are all 1.25oz, 1330 fps loads. Fiocchi patterned best out of my gun at almost 83%. Federal was worst at 72.6%. Whether 72.6% is good enough is up to each of us as an individual...

I spent a few hours on a project like that last month. I've decided to get out of reloading hunting ammunition, so I wanted to invest a little time to find a load that patterned well out of my gun. I had 8 different rounds to test, ranging from Winchester Super Pheasant at $35/box to a few...

It was thought to be illegal in Wyoming too until this case. The criminal case, which was decided a couple years ago maybe, was state court. That verdict was "not guilty." The court of appeals decision arose from a lawsuit brought by Iron Bar against the hunters for devaluing the Iron Bar...

This is a crucial point. The corner at question in this case was a surveyed corner with a marker. One of the hunters is a fence builder in real life, and thus is familiar with surveying, corner markers, etc. He had also built a ladder-like contraption to span the corner, allowing them a...

I wore Pyke Dakota all last season. The whole pant isn't waterproof, just the facing on the front of the legs and up to almost the knee on the back. Most of my hunting is in Kansas, which is drier than Minnesota for sure and also most of east-river SD. I hate "wet leg" days too, and these...

That's certainly a risk. I try to mitigate it through feeder placement. All the feeders on the first tract are positioned on the edge of plum thickets, ie, feeding birds have thick plum bushes over their heads. Probably doesn't do much to protect against bobcats, but the raptors would have a...