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My go-to is a 16 ga Citori white lightning with 28” tubes. I bought a 16 ga Citori Superlight (not feather) with an English stock and 26” tubes and while I think it looks better, I did not end up liking how it carried as much as the round knob. I’ve got a 20 ga Beretta with a classic pistol grip...

Pistol grip or English stocked?

I think it’s cause the receiver is about 26” long by itself.

My question is: is that true? If it is, why does Minnesota have a Walk-in stamp? Is their walk-in not funded with P-R money?

Hmmm. Minnesota has a Walk-In stamp you have to purchase to access their walk-ins, and while I'm not 100% sure, I'd bet they are P-R funded.

You are correct that P-R money is allotted on a formula based (half, if I recall correctly) on licenses sold as well as the land area of the state. But that doesn't mean "you can't do that". Now, I'm sure it's not a simple as merely saying "we will spend all that federal $ on iWIHA instead of...

Food for thought: Expand the iWIHA program. Sell an iWIHA stamp that allows for access. Limit the amount of hunters/day based on the carrying capacity of the property, limit the amount of iWIHAs a person can check into per day, and pay landowners based on how many people hunt it in a season.

Was looking for another lab all last year, as my oldest is aging out, and I like to have 2 working dogs. Kind of on a whim, I called a friend in the dog industry and asked for a springer recommendation. Called the breeder he recommended, got a good feeling, and he had a litter on the ground, but...

SK2/Light Mod

It’s been a long time since I missed the opener or the last day in KS, but this year I’ll have skipped both. I try not to jump to conclusions early or with a small sample size, but all in all, it was the worst Kansas season I’ve hunted in a long time. If I wasn’t on auto renew I would think very...

Check with Clay Earl of Coldwater Gundogs. He winters in Kansas.

Yeah, I would defer to the biologists, but my understanding was the extended freeze last year was just too much cold for too long for covies to survive. As always, that compounds the relentless habitat destruction and the spring and summer climate change.

Southern Iowa and northern Missouri quail are decimated. I bet numbers are down 50-75% from just a couple years ago.

Yeah, I was always told lawn grass was America’s largest irrigated agricultural crop

Spent the weekend in northwest Missouri, primarily public but also several tracts of well-managed private ground that has produced consistently for years. Bird number are legitimately decimated. 6 hunters, hunting in 2-3 groups for 2 days hunting probably didn’t flush 10 pheasants and only 2 coveys.

Kind of amounts to the same thing, as we both at least would envision it. More money devoted to better habitat. MN has a WIHA stamp you are required to purchase to hunt walk-ins. Same idea, but a more expensive pass for ground that was more intensively managed than the average KS WIHA, which is...

I'm not impugning your or your wife's taste or experience, but I've had excellent "authentic" Mexican food (if there really is such a thing, but that's a different argument) in Liberal, Dodge City, Garden City, Ulysses and I bet I could find an authentic taqueria in many of the other majority...

I've been in favor for a while of expanding the iWIHA program to include most, if not all, WIHA and limiting the number of hunters or parties per day based on the carrying capacity of each individual iWIHA. I also think you should have to buy an annual iWIHA pass to hunt Kansas iWIHAs and that...

Last year I dropped 3 roosters on 2 shots. A scotch double and a true double. I'm pretty sure its the only time I've ever shot a scotch double on any species, including quail, though sometimes in a duck blind it's kind of hard to tell. I'm generally good for a few true or spot doubles on upland...

I skipped KS opener this year for the first time in at least a decade. I've been out twice since, to 2 different regions, almost all private ground with very low pressure, only stepped foot on 1 WIHA (but it produced). Hunted 3 days wheat and milo stubble in western KS. Pheasants were definitely...