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I'd say that's a pretty good result for your first trip. Congratulations. Stay ready until you're standing on the road by the truck. That's a lesson pheasants will teach you every year until you learn it for good. Also, walk all the way to the corner. I've had the same experiences with...

I heard that there was a fatal hunting accident on the radio yesterday morning. There were no details in the report I heard; I assumed it was related to rifle deer hunting since that season was open through Sunday. It's tragic regardless of how it happened. It's also a great reminder to...

I've seen the delayed drop with pheasants as others have mentioned, but also with doves and quail. Much less frequently with those species. As for tough roosters, our group shot one a couple of years ago that was missing a foot and part of the lower leg. It was just a healed-over stump.

I noticed that too. I'm not sure I would recognize an enrolled pasture if I drove by one.

Some pen-raised birds make it. Maybe encounters with wild birds helps. However, I worry about the long-term impacts of the mixture of pen-raised DNA with wild. "Wild" mallards on the east coast are virtually all hybrids of wild and surviving pen-raised. The genes of these surviving...

First, I have no opinion on North Dakota. I have never hunted there. Second, with respect to Kansas, it's worth remembering that WIHA is not exclusively an upland bird program. KDWP enrolls land for a variety of species. Although I have hunted SD WIA/CREP, I've never read anything that...

I bought an inner tube to experiment with that. If I ever decide to boot my dogs I hope I can find it!

Bird could have been winged on a neighboring property or experienced hunting pressure there. Bird could also be a survivor of last year's season. Plenty of possibilities.

Should add that the CNG office also told me that the south side of the "river" was best.

We tried 2 days last year and got blanked. We got to the northeast edge of the CNG in the late morning on our first day. Our first walk was as much about stretching legs and letting the dogs air out as it was hunting. We made a few other walks that day and kicked up one pheasant. So clearly...

Digital scan of a nearly 20 year old picture.

After the last field on opening day in Kansas this year.

It's dogless hunters for the most part. Inexperience and lack of engagement (can't think of a better word for it). They're just walking... One foot in front of the other... Mind wandering... It's the sound of a flush, or a word from someone about a dog acting "birdy" or going on point, that...

One of my many frustrations from hunting in bigger groups has to do with plum thickets or small areas of something different--kochia, smartweed, sunflower, ragweed, illinois bundleflower, horsetail, tumbleweed, etc. I have a compulsion to walk around them or through them if they are anywhere...

I don't boot my dogs, but they hunt sandy stuff all the time. I also apply tuf-foot nearly daily for about 2 weeks before the season starts. They're also vizslas so there's not a lot of hair around their feet to pick up stuff. Even so I still pull out sand burs once in a while. My buddy has...

I think most of this is pretty well documented here. If you pull up to WIHA and there's a truck there, drive on. There are more. In fact, I would check all the road frontage of the tract for vehicles. That's the biggest thing. You might see some other hunters, but this is the 3rd weekend of...

Box turtles. Multiple times this year while Prairie Chicken hunting.

Pretty good for us. We hunt a sandier part of the state, so while there were big puddles in spots there was no risk of getting stuck as long as you stayed on the roads. 6 of us killed 11 by 1:00 on Saturday. Mixture of private and WIHA. We quit then because it was getting warm and to save...

Wow. That looks really painful.:sick:

The forecast can be summed up like this, "it's better, and in some areas, a lot better." You have to read to pretty close to see where it also says, "but it's still not very good." I'm going anyway. Can't drive to SD every weekend.