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Iowa is better than Kansas now. Not worlds better but noticeably.

364K quail, 295K pheasants in 2020.

I’m very partial to Double TT British Kennels, now in Emporia, Kansas. I’ve bought 2 labs from the kennel under the previous owner, for most of my hunting life I hunted mostly Upland and a little waterfowl. Lately that’s shifted some, but I’m in essentially the same boat, a 9 year old and a 5...

There is absolutely no reason for a DNR to not have a license app at this point so you can keep it on your phone.

Well said. I am sensitive to the fact that Kansas's primary tourism drive is hunting, but I shudder to think of what the natural outcome of that is, and I think most people who have hunted there a long time and care about wildlife as a resource and hunting as something more important than...

This is a theory quite easily disproven by South Dakota, where pay-to-hunt operations release about 500K birds per year.

I usually shoot somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 pheasants in Missouri, and always do alright on quail. This year is predictied to be particularly abysmal though. I think phez numbers are down 75%, and quail down somewhat too.

My thoughts on Missouri are the same as every year, I'll hunt it till Iowa and Kansas open.

North Dakota, Iowa and Kansas (in that order) were all neck around 300K birds last year. Which says a lot about how bad Kansas and North Dakota are right now, and how much better Iowa is than it has been in a long time. I know younger hunters who have no idea that Iowa used to be a mecca and...

We got to be within 10 years of poly-chokes coming back into fashion.

Is it a Double TT dog? “Reed’s” as in TTF Craighorn Mississippi Reed?

This might be a typo. Iowa didn’t even kill 300k birds last year. Now, that’s probably the highest it’s been in a decade but it’s not exactly 1995

Most cities of fairly large size (by Irish standards) will have a few sporting goods retailers that carry fly fishing, hunting and sporting gear. They are really fun shops and you will usually be able to find brands you recognize as well as brands that are less known here but more common in the...

As an update, this prediction was accurate. Iowa havested 299K roosters and Kansas harvested 295k. 62K people hunted pheasants in Iowa. 78K people hunted pheasants in KS.

"It is illegal to access private railroad property anywhere other than a designated pedestrian or roadway crossing. Trespassers are most often pedestrians who walk across or along railroad tracks as a shortcut to another destination. Some trespassers are loitering; engaged in recreational...

Not at all. There’s no denying that a 12 ga is capable of greater knock-down power than a 16 or 20. My experience is that it rarely would have made a difference for me. I hunt wild, spooky Kansas birds that get probably more pressure per pheasant than anywhere else in the country, but...I have...

I exclusively shoot 16 ga for upland hunting, never had trouble getting shells here in KC, until last year Rogers always had them on the shelf, Cabelas too. I have never hoarded or panic bought, but I do tend to buy in bulk when they are on sale, so I generally have at least one season’s worth...

Rarely does a semi-auto interest me, especially in the uplands, but Browning finally got that one right.

I’m sincerely sorry to hear that. Must be disappointing for a farmer and hunter. Unfortunately Kansas has for far too long relied almost exclusively on weather to save it’s pheasant population, in the face of the fact that Kansas, which has the most extreme weather of any state in the real...