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Worst upland season I've had in decades. The only saving grace was that I didn't try very hard, didn't hunt very often, slept in alot, and shot lights out. I hunted southwestern Minnesota, central South Dakota, southwestern Iowa, and northwest, northcentral and northeast Kansas, and in every one...

I hunted northeast for quail and north central for pheasants yesterday. Didn't put up any quail, all private, headed west at noon and put up 35-40 birds on public. I don't usually hunt public, but I thought the snow would bunch them up and hold them tight, but they were running and flushing...

I bought one Beretta 686 and could not hit a thing with it at the sporting clays course. I had never really bought the "either you shoot Brownings well, or you shoot Berettas well, but not both" saw, but it proved true enough in my limited experience that I sold it and bought another...

In Kansas, cedar wind breaks or good stands of clumping native grass.

Headed out Sat/Sun for a quick overnight. I hadn't been west yet this season. I hunted a couple hours Saturday afternoon, I hunted 2 WIHAs in northwest Kansas, one with very nice cover. Neither produced birds. Golden hour I hunted a private parcel, which had been maybe 75% hayed, but with...

First foray to Kansas this year chasing pheasant, hit my northeast KS honey hole with 2 inexperienced pups. We flushed 13 pheasants, shot 2, missed one. First year springer got her first retrieve (she’s put up quite a few, but she gets beat out by the retrievers to the dead bird, or marks it...

I switched from spaniels to labs about 10 years ago and hunted over small, british labs for several years. Last year I bought a springer pup from a very good breeder from excellent lines. She's a blast to own and hunt with, even if she's almost as ugly as a setter. She's leggy and fairly light...

Salina is generally good quail and chicken country with some pheasants where the cover is ideal. This year I doubt there will be many at all, near Salina or elsewhere. Salina is a population center, though, and is right on I-70, which means public ground gets hunted a lot. Definitely less...

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Finally made it out to Kansas this weekend for a quick Sunday hunt, probably 4 hours or so. Hunted in the Flint Hills on public land with a mixed group of dogs (mixed breeds, styles and experience). The habitat was ideal quail habitat, but we only saw one covey, which flushed from the roadside...

1/5 Kansans live there, so there's bound to be a lot JoCo plates in Kansas. I've always thought putting county markings on license plates is for hicks. Never seen it used for anything but for cops to harass people who "aren't from around here".

Rogers in Liberty, MO or Scheels in Overland Park, KS if you are passing thru KC. There's a Scheels in Wichita, too, I think.

Hmmm, how would you accurately age a rooster on the wing? Always willing to listen. I’ve shot a lot of pheasants in my life but I’ve never been able to see their primary feathers on the wing well enough to accurately age them without having the bird in hand and spreading out the wing and...

Felt squirrelish last week and bought a 28 ga for the opener. Cleaned it, oiled it, and, without having fired a shot, made my way to southwest MN. Saw fewer birds than last year (which was also noticeably down from previous years), especially on roads and flying in and out of corn/grass during...

I've done 3 in one rise in Northeast Kansas 2 or 3 years ago. Shot a true double, one of which was a scotch double. Didn't even try for a 4th. Jacked the 3rd shell out of my gun, sent the dogs for the fetches and walked right back to my car.

Better pattern it. 4s are pretty big for 16 ga., and sometimes the patterns are pretty thin.

If you want a new production gun, and can afford the citori, buy the citori. You almost invariably get what you pay for when it comes to double guns.

What a nice duck gun that would make. One of the few semi-autos I covet.

The Kansas section of the PF report is what KDWP will publish for it's upland forecast, nearly verbatim, plus info for quail and chickens. It is not promising, nor particularly rosy, though, I've always found it to be pretty accurate. Maybe I just read with a more critical eye than many of you...

You have ooser/deer hunting because for 50 years Kansans have moved away farms and small communities, quit hunting, sold land to entities that don't care about Kansans, especially rural Kansans, much less the ecosystem or the future of your communities or wildlife. And also cause you guys won't...