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In my neck of the woods we have had a lot of rain. Spend most of my day mowing. Seems like the grass grows 5” every night. It has also been creating sinkholes around town. This one opened up behind one of my rental places. Hope it keeps raining a bit more before the heat moves in. I have...

As a dedicated prairie chicken and Sage grouse hunter every bird I’ve killed was with boot leather. I’ve worn out more pairs of boots than shotguns chasing birds.

Glad you got out a few more times before season closes up. Practice your gun mount in the off season. You can do that without ever leaving the house. Start slow and progressively increase your speed until it just flows. Then throw on your gear and keep practicing. After a while it will be...

When I’m not shooting upland birds I chase clay targets and long range paper targets. 🤣 Deer with my colonial flintlock rifle.

Great job Kiva! Enjoyed the video..

On Saturday I decided pheasants one more time before the end of season. Since I’ve covered a lot of area around home I thought I’d try somewhere I haven’t been in a while so I headed south of Goodland. There wasn’t any snow so traveling on the back roads was easy. I stopped at a number of...

Looked like a fun one. Love how your dogs about pounced on the hen. Great video as always. Matt

I’d suggest Brown Feathers and Wings of Thunder by Steven J Mulak. He was from New England and a prolific bird hunter.

I went out New Year’s Eve morning. Got to my WIHA spot about 1/2 hour from my house. There was about 6-8” of snow down. The wheat stubble was almost completely covered in snow. It looked like a sheet of lined paper. I saw a few tracks and started my cast through the wheat stubble...

If you’re truly done for the season it will certainly end on a high note. Good video as always. But are you truly done? The field is hard to give up…. Matt

My Springer had an issue with his scrotum getting rubbed raw by the grass. Generally healed quickly. One day I noticed it was swollen. Apparently had gotten infected and we had to have an emergency surgery done. If you dog has a bleeding issues I would certainly do him a favor and neuter him...

After a two week hiatus I slipped out Thursday afternoon for a walk. Saw two big coyotes one of which shadowed us for about 3/4’s of a mile. He stayed out of shotgun range and kept pace. He finally turned and trotted off. We bounced another one in a draw farther out in the CRP. The wind...

NWKS.. Walked 10 miles saw 14 birds total. 3 roosters (one of which fell to the gun) 11 hens. Overall dismal. Walked 6 different pieces of WIHA only three had birds in it. Think it’ll be prairie chickens and clay birds for the rest of season..

No there is not a requirement. Good suggestion to at least wear an orange hat/cap though. I personally only wear an orange hat on opening day and when deer season runs. Otherwise I’m in pretty subdued colors.

Good job dag. You kill birds with boot leather before the succumb to shotshells. Long walks through the forest and open parks for hours and then the rapid flush and it’s all over in a heartbeat.

I am 55yo. I have osteoarthritis in both hips one worse than the other. Causes me grief all the time. Supposed to have surgery but really don’t want them cutting on me until I can’t walk anymore. I dull the pain with scotch. I had major surgery in 2016 and was burdened with a colostomy bag...

I have pounded chickens and had them still keep going. Shot one a few years ago that dropped both legs and dropped a 1/4 mile away in a winter wheat field. Old males can be tough birds and don’t really get much credit for being that way. My best patterning 1-1/4oz load flies at 1220fps. Early...

I use: skeet tubes for blue grouse Skeet/IC for Sage grouse, early chickens, and first couple of weeks of pheasant. IC/IC until last few weeks of season LM/LM for the last few weeks of season I agree with Goose as 90% of my shooting is done with IC

Great job. I know that area and it can be a tough hunt. Word of warning though. There are snakes in that area. Killed a couple around there.

I hunted last weekend for chickens. Only flushed one solitary rooster. We didn’t see any birds on the roads. Guys I know are saying they haven’t seen much either. I’m going to stay optimistic that some of the deep cover I hit will have birds.