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In my pretty extensive experience hunting pheasants and bobwhites in Kansas, the brood maps are not particularly useful/accurate.

Kansas only offers a full year (365) day license. The license and prairie chicken permit are all you need to hunt upland birds.

I used to be a lot more cavalier about discussing specific counties or towns when posting on the internet about hunting, but I've learned my lesson the hard way. It has negative results.

Iowa is better than Kansas now. Not worlds better but noticeably.

364K quail, 295K pheasants in 2020.

I’m very partial to Double TT British Kennels, now in Emporia, Kansas. I’ve bought 2 labs from the kennel under the previous owner, for most of my hunting life I hunted mostly Upland and a little waterfowl. Lately that’s shifted some, but I’m in essentially the same boat, a 9 year old and a 5...

There is absolutely no reason for a DNR to not have a license app at this point so you can keep it on your phone.

Well said. I am sensitive to the fact that Kansas's primary tourism drive is hunting, but I shudder to think of what the natural outcome of that is, and I think most people who have hunted there a long time and care about wildlife as a resource and hunting as something more important than...

This is a theory quite easily disproven by South Dakota, where pay-to-hunt operations release about 500K birds per year.

I usually shoot somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 pheasants in Missouri, and always do alright on quail. This year is predictied to be particularly abysmal though. I think phez numbers are down 75%, and quail down somewhat too.

My thoughts on Missouri are the same as every year, I'll hunt it till Iowa and Kansas open.

North Dakota, Iowa and Kansas (in that order) were all neck around 300K birds last year. Which says a lot about how bad Kansas and North Dakota are right now, and how much better Iowa is than it has been in a long time. I know younger hunters who have no idea that Iowa used to be a mecca and...

We got to be within 10 years of poly-chokes coming back into fashion.

Is it a Double TT dog? “Reed’s” as in TTF Craighorn Mississippi Reed?

This might be a typo. Iowa didn’t even kill 300k birds last year. Now, that’s probably the highest it’s been in a decade but it’s not exactly 1995

Most cities of fairly large size (by Irish standards) will have a few sporting goods retailers that carry fly fishing, hunting and sporting gear. They are really fun shops and you will usually be able to find brands you recognize as well as brands that are less known here but more common in the...

As an update, this prediction was accurate. Iowa havested 299K roosters and Kansas harvested 295k. 62K people hunted pheasants in Iowa. 78K people hunted pheasants in KS.

"It is illegal to access private railroad property anywhere other than a designated pedestrian or roadway crossing. Trespassers are most often pedestrians who walk across or along railroad tracks as a shortcut to another destination. Some trespassers are loitering; engaged in recreational...

Not at all. There’s no denying that a 12 ga is capable of greater knock-down power than a 16 or 20. My experience is that it rarely would have made a difference for me. I hunt wild, spooky Kansas birds that get probably more pressure per pheasant than anywhere else in the country, but...I have...