Recent content by matto

It is well made, although IMO it has one design flaw described below. I wouldn't likely have bought it for my self, but the wife is always looking for birthday/Christmas ideas for her or for my kids to give to me. Before this I used a 7 gallon jerry can from walmart and a bowl. I like this...

https://dakota283.com/product/dash-3-5-gallon-water-system/ I use this around the truck. I put it down before the dogs are released and before we hunt almost every field. The 3.5 gallon size has been big enough to water 4 dogs for a day in most weather. Sometimes I'll skip the first field if...

I read it and sent them a couple of comments. I hope they can deliver.

Uninsulated for me for my last 3-4 pairs of boots, but then I mostly hunt Kansas. The worst handful of days we'll get is probably about normal for the last month or so of your season.

There was a post in the other thread about vests where someone mentioned a shell belt and 25 rounds. We all hunt different covers and with different tactics, but I'm wondering how many shells all of us carry? Hunting Kansas for pheasants, I'll grab 8. 2 go in the gun, leaving 6 in my pocket...

I read through topics like this one and think I'm way under-geared when I'm in the field. I still run a more-or-less traditional hunting coat--Columbia Ptarmigan--but at 15 years it's much closer to the end than the beginning. Sooner or later it will start leaking shells out of the pockets and...

There's really no limit to what you can do with pheasant if you pound it out first. I call it "pre-chewing".

Which means wind noise would be bad almost every day in Kansas. I'll wear ear plugs when dove hunting and duck hunting (which I don't do all that often). I'll have them with me and put them in if possible before shooting a deer. I've tried wearing one in my left ear while bird hunting, but...

If there had been a confirmed encounter that would have been a victory. Granted I've never hunted scalies before so my expectations were pretty low. There was one point were the dogs started the "dance"--point, relocate, point, relocate, etc. It looked like scalie habitat to me, but nothing...

As an aspirational land buyer, I hope you're right that prices will come down. As a friend and beneficiary of many landowners/producers, I hope it's nothing like the 80s. My real point, though, is that haven't we been saying this for a while? In Kansas at least, we've seen 2 if not 3 years...

Great picture documenting what must have been a great day! A friend and I made the long trek from Wichita to Elkhart over the weekend to chase the (mythical?) scalies of Kansas. We got our a$$es kicked. On the way home we talked a little about NM...

I'm no expert, but it's certainly possible that "residency" can mean different things for different purposes. IE, being a resident for hunting/fishing licenses is different than being a resident for tagging your car/RV/boat/etc/ and also different than for income tax purposes. Those RVers...

It's absolutely a released bird operation. Maybe the birds are better than most, maybe not. I've never used them. We own some ground in the area and they sent us an inquiry letter about leasing our ground. Of course it was phrased as a "research project" investigating re-establishing wild...

Our temps were not that cold over the weekend, but still extremely cold for Kansas. We had daytime "highs" in the single digits, with windchills between -15 and -25. My dogs spend very little time outside in general and vizslas have pretty short hair too. I really wanted to go, but I skipped...

Definitely not sorghum. Doesn't really look like Kansas wheat either. I'd guess oats or barley.