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Sounds like a great fall and winter. I don't think my wife would be on board for an extended road trip like that. Enjoy it while you can!

https://www.weather.gov/source/crh/snowmap.html Googled the same thing and found this. There's also the cameras at kandrive.gov. I wish there were a camera or two closer to the areas I hunt.

There's a piece of ground I can access that has similar issues. The landowner always gives me permission when I call. He owns the whole quarter except a 17 acre chunk with a house and some outbuildings. There's a shelterbelt that starts right on the property line, 35 yards from his back door...

I'm glad they found and caught the perps. Seems like a just sentence was handed down. That's a lot of law enforcement resources expended for what many (not me) would describe as minor crimes. It's amazing what law enforcement can do these days.

There's always a lot of talk about Kansas' WIHA program. This was my Friday hunt. 1 pheasant, 4 quail, all from WIHA, hunting by myself for about 4 hours. With results like that this late in the season, I'll thank them for the program rather than shame them for it.

I'd say that's a pretty good result for your first trip. Congratulations. Stay ready until you're standing on the road by the truck. That's a lesson pheasants will teach you every year until you learn it for good. Also, walk all the way to the corner. I've had the same experiences with...

I heard that there was a fatal hunting accident on the radio yesterday morning. There were no details in the report I heard; I assumed it was related to rifle deer hunting since that season was open through Sunday. It's tragic regardless of how it happened. It's also a great reminder to...

I've seen the delayed drop with pheasants as others have mentioned, but also with doves and quail. Much less frequently with those species. As for tough roosters, our group shot one a couple of years ago that was missing a foot and part of the lower leg. It was just a healed-over stump.

I noticed that too. I'm not sure I would recognize an enrolled pasture if I drove by one.

Some pen-raised birds make it. Maybe encounters with wild birds helps. However, I worry about the long-term impacts of the mixture of pen-raised DNA with wild. "Wild" mallards on the east coast are virtually all hybrids of wild and surviving pen-raised. The genes of these surviving...

First, I have no opinion on North Dakota. I have never hunted there. Second, with respect to Kansas, it's worth remembering that WIHA is not exclusively an upland bird program. KDWP enrolls land for a variety of species. Although I have hunted SD WIA/CREP, I've never read anything that...

I bought an inner tube to experiment with that. If I ever decide to boot my dogs I hope I can find it!

Bird could have been winged on a neighboring property or experienced hunting pressure there. Bird could also be a survivor of last year's season. Plenty of possibilities.

Should add that the CNG office also told me that the south side of the "river" was best.

We tried 2 days last year and got blanked. We got to the northeast edge of the CNG in the late morning on our first day. Our first walk was as much about stretching legs and letting the dogs air out as it was hunting. We made a few other walks that day and kicked up one pheasant. So clearly...

Digital scan of a nearly 20 year old picture.

After the last field on opening day in Kansas this year.

It's dogless hunters for the most part. Inexperience and lack of engagement (can't think of a better word for it). They're just walking... One foot in front of the other... Mind wandering... It's the sound of a flush, or a word from someone about a dog acting "birdy" or going on point, that...

One of my many frustrations from hunting in bigger groups has to do with plum thickets or small areas of something different--kochia, smartweed, sunflower, ragweed, illinois bundleflower, horsetail, tumbleweed, etc. I have a compulsion to walk around them or through them if they are anywhere...

I don't boot my dogs, but they hunt sandy stuff all the time. I also apply tuf-foot nearly daily for about 2 weeks before the season starts. They're also vizslas so there's not a lot of hair around their feet to pick up stuff. Even so I still pull out sand burs once in a while. My buddy has...