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    Snow hunting

    In Kansas, cedar wind breaks or good stands of clumping native grass.
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    Reports

    Headed out Sat/Sun for a quick overnight. I hadn't been west yet this season. I hunted a couple hours Saturday afternoon, I hunted 2 WIHAs in northwest Kansas, one with very nice cover. Neither produced birds. Golden hour I hunted a private parcel, which had been maybe 75% hayed, but with...
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    Reports

    First foray to Kansas this year chasing pheasant, hit my northeast KS honey hole with 2 inexperienced pups. We flushed 13 pheasants, shot 2, missed one. First year springer got her first retrieve (she’s put up quite a few, but she gets beat out by the retrievers to the dead bird, or marks it...
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    Who Hunts With A Field Cocker?

    I switched from spaniels to labs about 10 years ago and hunted over small, british labs for several years. Last year I bought a springer pup from a very good breeder from excellent lines. She's a blast to own and hunt with, even if she's almost as ugly as a setter. She's leggy and fairly light...
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    Debating a Mid-January Kansas Trip…

    Salina is generally good quail and chicken country with some pheasants where the cover is ideal. This year I doubt there will be many at all, near Salina or elsewhere. Salina is a population center, though, and is right on I-70, which means public ground gets hunted a lot. Definitely less...
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    leader in habit and quail success

    This.
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    Reports

    Finally made it out to Kansas this weekend for a quick Sunday hunt, probably 4 hours or so. Hunted in the Flint Hills on public land with a mixed group of dogs (mixed breeds, styles and experience). The habitat was ideal quail habitat, but we only saw one covey, which flushed from the roadside...
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    Lock and Load for the Opener

    1/5 Kansans live there, so there's bound to be a lot JoCo plates in Kansas. I've always thought putting county markings on license plates is for hicks. Never seen it used for anything but for cops to harass people who "aren't from around here".
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    Where to buy ammo in Eastern Kansas

    Rogers in Liberty, MO or Scheels in Overland Park, KS if you are passing thru KC. There's a Scheels in Wichita, too, I think.
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    2022 Season

    Hmmm, how would you accurately age a rooster on the wing? Always willing to listen. I’ve shot a lot of pheasants in my life but I’ve never been able to see their primary feathers on the wing well enough to accurately age them without having the bird in hand and spreading out the wing and...
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    2022 Season

    Felt squirrelish last week and bought a 28 ga for the opener. Cleaned it, oiled it, and, without having fired a shot, made my way to southwest MN. Saw fewer birds than last year (which was also noticeably down from previous years), especially on roads and flying in and out of corn/grass during...
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    2022 Forecast Is Out

    I've done 3 in one rise in Northeast Kansas 2 or 3 years ago. Shot a true double, one of which was a scotch double. Didn't even try for a 4th. Jacked the 3rd shell out of my gun, sent the dogs for the fetches and walked right back to my car.
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    Best chokes for #4 shot in a 16 ga.

    Better pattern it. 4s are pretty big for 16 ga., and sometimes the patterns are pretty thin.
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    Looking at Over/Under 16 ga. opinions

    If you want a new production gun, and can afford the citori, buy the citori. You almost invariably get what you pay for when it comes to double guns.
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    16 gauge

    What a nice duck gun that would make. One of the few semi-autos I covet.
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    It Looks Grim

    The Kansas section of the PF report is what KDWP will publish for it's upland forecast, nearly verbatim, plus info for quail and chickens. It is not promising, nor particularly rosy, though, I've always found it to be pretty accurate. Maybe I just read with a more critical eye than many of you...
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    It Looks Grim

    You have ooser/deer hunting because for 50 years Kansans have moved away farms and small communities, quit hunting, sold land to entities that don't care about Kansans, especially rural Kansans, much less the ecosystem or the future of your communities or wildlife. And also cause you guys won't...
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    It Looks Grim

    I have pitched this before to the resounding poo-poo-ing of "Can't-sas" residents, but I'll beat the dead horse again: KDWP should greatly expand the iWIHA program. An expanded iWIHA program should not focus on access near urban areas (though, in truth, that is where most Kansas live, which...
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    Semi auto or break action shotgun?

    I never had any love for semi-autos, and always kind of looked down on them compared to pumps, which seemed more fun, more rugged and more of an tool worthy of some respect. Semi autos always reminded me of electric filet knives, they just seem like an unnecessary and low-value intrusion of...
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    2022 Road side counts

    Isn't the prohibition in place to keep wildlife from being unnecessarily harassed and to promote production of waterfowl?
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