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I keep saying I’m going to go hunt chickens. I live pretty close to the Flint Hills. Might have to take the labs for a walk out in the Smokies, on my way to hunt pheasants in western Kansas next week.

We found some dirt roads that I guarantee you would turn to gumbo. Most are gravel, though, and should be just fine. I was referring to their dirt roads in my initial post.

No different than Kansas, if you’ve experienced those. If it’s soupy out, they’re generally a no go. The locals don’t appreciate them being torn up, either. In the area of Iowa I hunt, the (human) population is significantly higher than that of western Kansas, so more roads are gravel, than dirt.

Glad to hear that you boys up in Minnesota are having some success!

Up here hunting in WC Iowa. Lots of birds!

Absolutely. I will admit that I’m young enough that I never got to hunt the glory years for pheasants, in any state. I did go up to South Dakota for several years to snow goose hunt in the spring starting in ~2007. Holy cow! The pheasants we saw up there. Today, I do almost all of my hunting...

Probably not much help, but I always use OnX these days. It seems to be pretty up to date. Best of luck to you, friend.

Never said that, but things have definitely gotten better. Something to hope for, anyhow. Who knows? 20 years from now, they may again.

CRP is a federal program. It can change with the drop of a hat, as we’ve seen. Maybe more CRP will come along (or maybe not)? Maybe some other program will emerge? No one knows. What’s gets me is when people say “sell your dogs, sell your guns, birds are never coming back”. Frankly put, they...

My body is ready!

It will have become an inert substance long before you or your dogs set foot in the field.

Spending the next two weekends hunting in Iowa, and then back home to Kansas for the opener. To say I’m excited, would be an understatement!

I disagree. Look at Iowa. It was world class pheasant hunting, then was terrible for a long time. Now, it is good hunting once again. Why? Because the amount of habitat in Iowa has dramatically increased in recent years. That’s really what it boils down to. Farming practices have little to do...

I will be making a couple of trips to Iowa this year to hunt with a farmer friend. They have certainly been on an upswing the past several years. For some place “different”, that’s what I would recommend. That said, there are still birds to hunt in Kansas, so I will do the majority of my...

Prayers for you and yours!

It got up to 110 more than once. Over 100 most every day all summer.

I always enjoy your pictures.

Good luck to all! :) I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little jealous. We haven’t had enough doves to be worth hunting in my part of SEK for many years now.

Not in my area. Not at all like it used to be.

I saw more doves this summer out in western Kansas than I’ve ever seen in my life. We haven’t had doves like that here in SEK for many years.