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I've been. It's not a great supporting argument for "pheasants need trees to survive".

I've hunted both extensively. Kansas is at historic lows and MN still hasn't caught up, in part because...you guessed it, Kansas has a much more extensive range of relatively treeless prairie, and hence, more pheasants. I do agree that the best parts of Minnesota are going to have more abundant...

Is that half loaded with pheasants or nah?

There's a reasons there are more pheasants in South Dakota, North Dakota and Kansas than there are in Minnesota, and it's not cause those states have more trees...

I will not.

The state should drop about 75% of it's WIHA acreage anyway. The program has devolved into just another form of farmer welfare, and you would almost not believe the corruption involved in WIHA contracts at this point.

I hunt SW Iowa and NW MO pretty regularly, and this sounds about right.

Kansas has 45% fewer upland hunters than it did when wiha was introduced.

That is down, if I'm not mistaken, and where I hunt in MN, it sure seemed down last year.

I keep track.

That about my decrease in the last 5 years in KS.

I hunt almost exclusively private land in Kansas and I'll warn you frankly, it is not worth paying to hunt pheasants in Kansas. If I wasn't from there, or didn't have access to private land, or didn't have a pretty deep emotional investment in being there, I wouldn't even spend the gas and hotel...

The Kansas Upland Forecast is out and it is very, very bad news for pheasants in Kansas. https://ksoutdoors.com/Hunting/Upland-Birds/Upland-Bird-Forecast

It's pretty shocking to me they allow this practice to continue. Maybe it doesn't have a deleterious effect, but it's hard to imagine how it wouldn't. I assume this is mostly done on sharptails? Cause it doesn't seem like there's enough pheasants in Montana to sustain it.

I've hunted miles and miles of wheat stubble in western KS. Usually large party hunting, but I've had very productive wheat stubble hunts.

Kansas 259k NoDak 287k Iowa 357k SoDak 1.158m Nebraska is well under 200k and MN likely around 225k.

Run the ridges. Sunny side in the morning when it's dewy, shady side when its warm out. If you put a couple up, watch for stragglers. Focus on big, short (ankle-knee high), sparse stands of native grass.

I really like the gentle recurve on the English stock (though I think I'm going to sell me English stocked 16 ga Citori anyway...).

Used.

Birds have no honor. They are all absolute scoundrels.