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Hopefully it was full of gas! I have never seen one of them with stale gas in the tank... Even starting an old power wagon will move the needle on the gauge! :ROFLMAO:

Based on the last few posts, we need to start a new thread! This started out about us taking about our fails, but it seems we need to start one about our successes! If we keep this up the ammo guys stock values are going to plummet!

I think it's safe to assume the "yips" can affect any hunter, in any state! 🤦😜

I almost always shoot an O/U. I've had some triple opportunities in the past that turned out to be singles or whiff.... And I am counting reloads and 3 or 4 shots!

In Kansas, it's a 4 bird limit. I have had several 2 for 2 doubles standing in 1 spot , but never a 3 for 3 triple. This was really nice for me and my confidence since 2 weeks ago I had a severe case of the "yips"! There were lots of birds flushing all over the field and would have kept hunting...

Today must have been a day off 3's! I left my house, drive 3 miles to a CRP corner that i haven't hunted all year. I had 4 birds come up one at a time. Three out of the four were roosters. I shot 3 times, dropped all three. Took my Benelli out for the first time in several years, but kind of...

20+ years ago I had a bird flush in front of me and I can still visualize it. The tail feathers were curled down instead of straight out in flight. Fortunately, I made a good shot and was able to find him. It was the only bird I had that day, so I didn't realize how cool he was, but he didn't...

It gets worse... Just wait!

I am guessing only a 2 year old...I would have probably passed on him to see what he may have become! *sarcasm*

I am guessing that anyone who doesn't think like us, won't feel like they can comment without being shamed. I doubt that I will know how many or why they feel like there is an advantage to be unsafe!

Not to derail from a very sad and serious post, but this question is along the lines of safety. How much quicker does a person feel like they are at target acquisition and firing by carrying their gun afield off "safe" prior to the actual flush? For me, it is an unconscious, fluid motion with...

As a kid I was always taught to keep the gun barrels pointed towards the ground. I never had a hunting dog growing up, so this made sense. After getting a hunting dog, I prefer to see gun barrels up! It also amazes me how many people carry their guns on "fire" in the field, and then when they...

Five of us were finishing up a spot a couple of weeks ago when my dog got really "birdy". When she gets this way it's not if, it's when the bird will flush. We were in very thin grass and I thought there was no way there was a bird in front of us. She zigged and zagged across three of us on the...

Reading this makes me think I should consider communicating my whereabouts more frequently. Often times, when I leave the house, I never know where I'll end and I don't communicate my plans at all. Some of the best hunting spots I've found don't have cell phone signal at all...this could pose a...

The badger holes have been worse around here for the past couple years for unknown reasons, more badgers is likely the reason?!? Good to know I'm not alone. I am going to start tracking my step to fall ratio so i have a baseline for future purposes.

So, maybe I'm not quite as nimble as I once was, and still feel like I get around pretty well. I'm not yet 50, I can walk heavy cover for an entire day, and have already recorded over 100 miles in 6 weekends of going out this season, but... I have tripped (fallen as my son says) 3 times, all...

Well, I read this thread a few weeks ago and thought to myself that it had been a while since I felt like I had the "yips". I have missed plenty of birds in my life and have several birds that required the "second" bell tone, but for the most part, if the bird was in range, I felt confident it...

Weekend update. Had a regular group from KC that committed to the long drive out west. Surprisingly, the roads were fairly solid and by the middle of the afternoon on Saturday we could even access some trail roads. We didn't hunt any of the "honey hole ambush spots" and stayed in CRP along corn...

I am not an ornithologist, but my expectation is that when the rains stop, the birds are going to be ready to find food since they have been trying to stay dry for the past 2 days. Unfortunately, I think they are going to be moving to the fields tomorrow and Sunday, and the bare ground will be...

In Western Kansas, you take rain when it comes and you like it! We call this rain event a $1,000,000 rain, because of the future community revenue opportunities it provides in the whole county. This is amazing, especially for this time of the year. However, opening day of pheasant season is...