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Shells most certainly do matter. So does choke, patterning, and gun fit. They all matter. A 12 gauge with a LM choke shooting Kent Ultimate Fast lead 6's 1 3/8 is the perfect combo for me. Make sure you gun is shooting a 55/45 or 60/40 pattern. Make sure your length of pull is correct. 1...

I know none of us want to, but that injury requires a month off. Not doing so may cause it not to heal correctly. Dogs aren't like us, they don't quit. It's our job to rest them, I wouldn't hunt a dog with that injury til it's healed. Epsom salts, tuff foot, and rest will heal it fine...

Not me, living here I hate it.

We always want rain. The more the better.

Not for sure about Cimarron, but I am a little nervous about hunting tomorrow. We had quite a bit of ice and in my yard the grass is covered in ice and it is very sharp. I won't let my dogs run around in the yard. My female went out to air and had cut her foot in less than 5 minutes.

I highly doubt 200 plus years ago that the prairie burned every 3 years. Some estimates say every 5-20 years the prairie burned from lightening strikes. But it was a healthy ecosystem back then free of man, cattle, chemicals, irrigation pipe, and barb wire. Man, and his ideas and management...

There is tall prairie grass in the flint hills? Looks like nothing but overgrazed pasture land now, which helped produce the cedar invasion. In the mid 80's, that prairie grass started disappearing, and along with it went the prairie chicken. Traveling from Wichita to Severy in the 70's and...

West Central right at 12 inches. And ice.

A good spring hatch and no emergency grazing and haying, and it will be a great year next fall. People need to leave them alone this week. We got right at 12 inches of snow with a lot of ice. Extremely cold temps this week but hopefully back it next weekend.

This year is much improved but last year was horrible, the worst I have ever seen in my lifetime. I was thinking they would struggle to bounce back but they did this year. This storm won't help, too much ice, but they are tough. I have a dozen pheasants and a covey of quail behind the house...

Had a friend that hunted goldens and always had a 3 dog rotation. He really loved them and loved pheasant hunting. He passed away about 10 years ago. Hard to replace that generation of hunters and the values they carried with them.

No they don't learn in the field. They take what you have taught them and transition it to the field. Training a dog is no different than teaching or raising kids. Which is why we see unruly dogs in the field and unruly kids in the classroom. I am familiar with Hickoks but not something I...

The first thing you need to do is crate training. You don't have to have the dog retrieving every day. Sometimes that creates more problems. A few times a week. Bird exposure is important but you don't have to do it often. Generally once a week is plenty until you have laid down the...

First you need to define all of your goals then a pick a program and follow it. I always liked Fowl Dawgs by Rick Stanski.

Put the sneak on these 3 today. It pays to hunt silent.

I am also in the city limits, so these guys were 75 yds from the city limits as well. Some places just should not be hunted. I also counted 6 dogs that they had a hard time controlling. 4 or 5 years ago I had a dozen guys walk across my yard. I had words with them and their response was that...

I had a couple of jack asses hunting right behind my house 2 weeks ago on the neighbors property about 75 yds from house. I was cleaning birds on the tailgate and boom. Shots sprayed my garage and I could hear shot buzzing through the air and a pheasant flying over the garage. I went out to...

I learned back in the 70's and 80's that parking next to where I hunt equals less birds. Parking 1/4 mile away makes a huge difference. They will hear the truck door, tailgate, and dogs getting out of the truck and spook or be ready to spook. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a foolish hunter...

I do sneak up on birds when there is a nice wind and by being quiet. When I know there are going to be birds, I remain silent and keep my dog at heal. This has bagged many birds that others would not have got to. The ones who like to yell "rooster", drink beer, talk, etc. will argue...