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While it's not like I'm playing touch football or frisbee in prairie dog towns, it's tough to shoot prairie dogs without being in the towns. I've only seen a rattler once while doing so, I think. He wasn't rattling and I didn't see the head or the tail to verify, but it was definitely a snake...

We skipped our trip to that area last year because of the drought. Our last trip was in '20 or'21. The birds were pretty thin and a lot of CRP was hayed or grazed. Sounds like you're doing a commercial thing. If it's wild birds, I'd be interested to know how it works out for you. For me...

agreed

It is a little short of the 7700 acres shown on the flier. The handout they gave us that day showed 3100+/- in the west unit and 3900+/- in the east unit. KDWP's guys didn't really give a reason for exclusion of the other TNC properties shown on OnX. I could only speculate, which wouldn't do...

The weather turned out pretty nice. There was cloud cover and spotty rain that kept the temps down until we were done--about 12 or so. As for the property, it's a very cool piece of sand prairie that should offer decent quail hunting for those willing to burn boot leather. Every place we...

It probably won't be fun, given the weather forecast, but I'm planning to show up. https://www.backcountryhunters.org/kansas_bha_workday_for_walk_in_hunting_access

My first PC hunt in many, many years was probably 4-5 years ago. (No sharpies in KS, just PC) It was all about getting some early season practice for my dogs and an opportunity to follow the dogs with a shotgun and "intent" before pheasant season. It has begun to get into my blood too. It...

I was checking some my stuff yesterday. I didn't see any broods, but I did hear quail and I saw pheasant tracks. I also saw some tracks that were smaller than adult pheasant, so perhaps quail or pheasant chicks. The cover looks great on my stuff, and no evidence of major hail. But I...

Hunting Dog/Ron Boehme is hit or miss. I thoroughly enjoyed every episode of him and Justin McGrail answering listener questions about dogs. On the other hand, other episodes don't make it 10 minutes past the sponsor run-down. Sometimes it's the content, sometimes it's the audio quality...

Door slamming and general unreadiness when we get to the field. There's always a little gear-organizing and readying, but it seems like some guys got in the truck in the morning having forgot what we were going to do. The reverse bird hog: loves to go, never wants to take birds home. I guess...

Glad you put quotes around "safe" in reference to Roundup/glyphosate. We all know California thinks it causes cancer, but California thinks that about a lot of things. At some level of exposure I wouldn't be surprised. I still use it, both on our farm ground and around the house. Hopefully...

Very interesting comments from your tenant. Our tenants are also very traditional farmers. Someday I'll probably change tenants and I hope to find one like yours. Did you "luck" into him or did you set out to find one like that?

I think my shortest tenured gun is from about 2018. I bought it for two reasons: a loaner for the HS trap team I coach and a 12 gauge to loan to my younger son for waterfowling since his normal field gun is a 20. I've had two primary field guns since I was about 15 years old. The first was a...

Your pictures are always so much fun. It's great to see a brood or two in the mix. The one with the rabbit, deer and quail was also interesting. Please keep posting them.

I've been watching this one too. So far I'm not impressed with their "inventory". Many of their listings for Kansas seem to be preserves. Either that or they are deer/turkey focused and throw on "oh yeah, we have some birds too". And they might. There's one large property out near Syracuse...

So I spent yesterday morning and early afternoon inspecting our family ground and looking at the results of some of my habitat work. I bumped both a hen and a quail off their nests, saw another pheasant slinking into someone else's wheat field, and heard quail at a different spot. Here's what...

True wild bird operations are darn near non-existent. Some operations advertise it, but if you ask them directly about releasing birds, they admit doing it. About the only option coming to mind is this club: https://midwesthunt.com/ They lease thousands of acres across Kansas for all kinds...

A few things: A Lab from 20+ years ago ate so much grass one time that it balled up and formed a blockage. She needed surgery to have it removed. My first Vizsla would INSIST on stopping to eat grass on our morning walks/runs, especially in the spring. She liked the new, fresh shoots of some...

I was in a couple of adjoining counties last year. There were a few birds. Watch the rainfall and hail reports.

Many will say that the Alpha is not a particularly good training collar because changing the intensity of stim requires more time and attention than a dedicated training collar. I run an alpha 100 and it is true that changing intensity level or switching between tone and vibrate takes multiple...