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I plan on chasing them for the first time ever later this week. Excited!

Tall wheat stubble makes for good cover. In the area I worked in and hunt, there is almost no CRP. But there is tall wheat stubble, and there are birds.

Where I worked on a farm in far western Kansas, they like the stripper headers because the tall stubble serves as a mulch to retain moisture, and keeps the soil from blowing too bad. It also helps hold snow a little better. Most everyone in that area uses strippers.

They mostly use stripper heads at points I hunt further west than you, leaving the stubble nice and tall, and I see more birds out that way, too. I have no doubt that the tall wheat stubble is why the birds are there. I wish more folks further east would use stripper heads for that very reason.

Thanks fellas! I’m anxious to get out amongst em! Such an awesome bird.

I’m going to give them a try for the first time here in a few days. Any tips for a rookie hunting with a pair of labs?

There’s a lot more of us than you would think.

Just had 2 hen turkeys come by, not 50 yards from the house (Montgomery County, KS), with their combined broods. Nearly 20 poults between the two of them. That’s the largest bunch of turkey poults I’ve seen in many years. Sure was glad to see them! I will note that these birds were smaller than...

Awesome photos! Looks like the birds had a pretty good hatch your way

Good on y’all for getting out there and putting in the effort to help the birds out! Sounds like a nice piece of land, with good potential for bird hunting!

Seen a few quail broods in southeast Kansas.

I always enjoy your pictures!

I think that we’ve pretty well bottomed out, and even the state realizes that, and they can’t make money off of a resource that we don’t have. KDWP has been making some much needed adjustments as of late. Lord willing, we’re beginning the slow climb out of the pit for our wildlife, and our hunters.

We had a couple of hunts this year where we saw significantly more than that. There are still some “honey holes” around.

Been hunting public ground in NWK for the past few days. Saw a few, shot a few. Every pheasant we shot was this year’s bird. Lots of wild flushers, too, which are likely carry overs.

I had other matters come up, so I won’t be able to chase the upland birds until later this week. You couldn’t ask for a more gorgeous opening weekend though. ~10 degrees right now out in pheasant country. Low 20’s here in far southeast Kansas. Sitting out here drinking my coffee and watching my...

I will be out there amongst em.

Two weekends in a row of world class pheasant hunting! Iowa is the place to be, these days!

I have some friends that went out with their kids and shot a few birds. Don’t know any details. I just saw their pictures.