Recent content by RutCrazed

We obviously hunt in different areas, because I have land owners approach me at the gas station or diner when I have blaze orange on, asking if I am hunting deer because they want them shot.....all of them. I have yet to run into a landowner who would not let me hunt deer, unless it was already...

Ha ha ha! Everything I do is right, everything you do is wrong, but I won’t help you. Typical.

Do tell this approach you use.

Let me guess, you were born and raised in Kansas and have hunted the same properties for over 20 years? I hear your response from a lot of people who have never struggled to find land to hunt. Kansas has had the WIHA program for over 30 years. If you think land access hasn’t changed in the...

Where would everyone not fortunate enough to own land hunt? I know a lot of hunters in Kansas have never hunted birds or deer on public or WIHA land, but many of us rely on WIHA in a state that is 98% private.

I would like to see some recipes, because I thought I was eating liver.

Definitely a bucket list bird for me, but I also enjoy wide open country and ability to let the dogs run while hunting them. It reminds me too much of chukar hunting back home for me to stop hunting them now that I got one.

This is the part that confused me because it only showed a Greater season and bag limit. I shot my first one this year, you are correct, it was not a gourmet meal! 😄

I have looked at the differences between greater and lesser prairie chickens on the internet and I do not think I would be able to tell the difference, especially on the flush. I know that the season on lessers was closed in KS, but is it possible they were being shot and not correctly identified?

Kansas is roughly 52 million acres with 24 million acres of principal crops, yet only 1 million acres of WIHA and another 1 million in State and Federal hunting land. No wonder public hunting is so difficult! I am originally from Utah (been in Kansas since 2008) and the states are both about...

I had to go back a couple pages to revise this thread, but i wanted to report that after years and years of unsuccessful prairie chicken hunts, I finally got one!! I debated even going because of the wind, but figured a good walk with the dogs was better than cleaning the garage, so we loaded up...

Sounds like a great trip! I went out on Saturday but was done by noon because of the weather and the running birds, we really need some snow to break up the running lanes! I figured Sunday was a bust due to wind and had to go back to work on Monday when I really wanted to be out.

I have been out there a few times and it was crowded! I saw a few birds, but they were very jump and there were hunters just about every where I went. I am sure it will die down some now that the opener and Thanksgiving holiday are over

Well, maybe it was a combo of poor scenting conditions and an excited pup?

Have you had your dog hunting birds in a controlled environment, like a bird farm or even birds you planted?