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Not on your life. If someone wants to borrow my dog, they can, if I am invited as well, and then only if I approve of the hunting situation. Too much invested, both in time, money and emotion to let my hunting partners out with someone else.

I believe leg drops are an indication of the bird being hit "somewhere". It drops a leg because it is hurt, but not necessarily hit in that leg. If you are lucky, it will be a leg hit serious enough to prevent the bird from running. All birds that indicate a "hit", such as dropping a leg, should...

IC/Mod works all season. I use #4 lead, #3 steel (when non-tox is required). Either one will break bones if you hit the bird. That said, i just spent two weeks in Kansas using #5 Fiocchi Golden Pheasant (20ga , 3", 1 1/4 oz). If you center a bird with that load, even out there quite a ways...

If you are looking for evening entertainment, you aren't hunting hard enough! The paracord for conibear trap release and small cable cutters are items most don't have but the danger is very real. South Dakota allows "kill" traps.

I hunt with spayed female yellow labs. Zero aggression. They are there to hunt. Like others, the few times I have hunted with other hunters/dogs the problems came with intact male dogs. That is up to the owners but now I just leave if I come across that situation. Not worth the stress and vet bills.

I live in the mountains of Colorado. This suggestion works everywhere road conditions are bad. It will save you a lot of heart ache.

Emergency haying/grazing of CRP is determined by the status of a county according to the National Drought Monitor. Here is the current map for Nebraska: https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?NE When a county reaches the status of "D2" severity, the Farm Service...

Thanks Kiva. Always enjoyable to watch a good dog hunt. A caution on those boots, though. They really drag in heavy cover and will tire a dog out pretty quickly. I hunt labs as well and only use boots when absolutely necessary. I carry a set for each dog in my vest, but have found that in most...

Good rule of thumb if there has been any moisture and then freezing at night: If you are not on a maintained, surfaced county road, get back to one by 10am or you may stay until it freezes the following night.

Agree with Matto. For safety as well as panic, gun should be the last thing out of the vehicle and the first thing back into it. For no reason should that routine every be broken! I've watched hunters lean very expensive rifles up against their vehicle, forget and drive off. Virtually 100% of...

I've used this product with some success for the pads (bottom) of the foot: https://tuffoot.com/about/dog-paw-care ; but from your photos the problem you are having is with the top of the foot? Tuff Foot and similar products are not designed to prevent abrasion in areas normally covered by hair...

Just received a call from KDWP. They proofed the Garmin GPS file for 2021-22 and posted it today: https://ksoutdoors.com/KDWP-Info/Locations/Hunting-Fishing-Atlas/Hunting-Atlas/Garmin-GPS-Google-Earth-Files I took a quick look at an area I'm familiar with and it matches their printed Atlas and...

I see wounds like this fairly regularly when our labs hunt in abrasive habitat types - some types of grass, especially old, rank grass, feral sunflowers are really bad. Tends to be worse when things are really dry. They also show up when our dogs are getting tired toward the end of a long hunt...

Thanks. I normally hunt 3 states, Kansas, South Dakota and North Dakota. All have provided excellent coverage of their public hunting areas (WIHA, state land, PLOTS, etc.) I never gave a thought to whether their maps, whether electronic or paper were accurate and complete. Of course we never had...

So far nothing from KDWP staff and no luck converting their Google Earth .kmz file to Garmin's .img format (which of course is proprietary). I looked at HuntStand (competitor to OnX) and they still have the 2020-21 files. Those of you that subscribe to OnX, could you take a look at the printed...

I haven't heard back from anyone at KDWP yet, but have a friend that is a GIS manager out here that is going to attempt to convert their Google Earth file to one compatible with Garmin GPS units. If he is successful I will make it available here if I am allowed to. The comments from matto do...

Had some time so I called the Secretary's office. After 3 transfers I finally found a person that knew at least part of what is going on. The GIS position has been vacant since July. The Wildlife Director put together the maps for the booklet and likely for Google Earth and arcgis. The lady had...

That is an option but it is oh-so-much-easier to have the file on your automotive GPS. I've unfortunately had to work with arcgis over the years and have found it cumbersome and frustrating if you don't work with it everyday, but it may be our only option this year, unfortunately.

I tried their email "info" address and their "webmaster". Neither produced results so far. Please let me know if you have any luck with their help line. Hopefully it is someone with a Kansas accent that answers!

Over the years I have found the downloadable Kansas WIHA maps for my Garmin GPS invaluable. It sure beats driving around with the map booklet in your lap trying to figure out where you are! In past years Kansas has always made these files available in October. This year, less than a week before...