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Doves in September. Usually only 2-3 trips. Then chickens here in Kansas as my schedule allows through the end of October.

My friends who are "local" oil and gas guys were not at all surprised by any of that. You're right, it was very big news and those companies were throwing big numbers out to lease ground. By the time they got to my family's ground, the hype was starting to subside but they still threw out a...

I can't say whether it's more effective than steel, but I'm pretty sure it's "at least as" effective. Maybe I'm just a bad or lazy bird cleaner, but to me Bismuth is worth the premium to avoid the chance of biting down on a steel #4. Likewise, I'll avoid all the tungsten products now available...

I was looking at our stuff last weekend. There were LOTS of quail calling, and I also saw a few while driving. Those that I saw I would not have called chicks, but I don't know what a 6 week old quail should look like. I also saw a couple of pheasants in the ditches and ONE pheasant "chick"...

I've never really done the gift thing, but I do send handwritten thank you notes after hunting. Way back in the day we had a local contact who was a friend of my dad who hosted a group of 10-15 for the opener. The local and his son hunted with us and sometimes a few of his friends (who were...

Twice last year someone else's dog in the group got skunked while hunting. Both of those dogs were kenneled in pickup beds, so no worries until they got home. I've had a dogs get skunked on an early morning training run, on golf-course exercise runs, and in my own backyard. The older one...

The biologists in Kansas consistently estimate the "peak hatch" around June 10. The data come from the broods observed during roadside counts in August. Here's the chart from last year's survey results: The "peak" looks a little sharper than I remember from previous years' surveys...

100%. Kochia and annual sunflower is great pheasant habitat in Kansas, as is ragweed and a host of other stuff. If those areas grew that stuff every year I'd be super happy. But those areas won't grow that stuff year after year without management. Unfortunately that quarter gets cedars from...

First of all, my experiences are from central Kansas. We get much less moisture and I would assume the soils are much different. Your mileage may vary. This first quarter has very sandy soils. When we bought it 7-8 years ago it was CRP with just a couple of years left on the contract. We...

As A5 said, PC = Prairie Chicken. Where I hunt in KS we are likely to see both pheasants and quail, so I don't really think of my days as "pheasant hunts" or "quail hunts". They are "bird hunts". That's why I combined them. PC is different because the habitats are different and that season...

I'm lumping in quail, but not PC. I'm not sure that distinction makes sense, but that's what I did. PCs would add another 2-3 days.

I'm another with similar experiences from the late 80s to the mid-90s. For us it was sort of between Fredonia and Fall River. We also had some great hunting much closer to Wichita along the Walnut River. If you ignore the pen-raised escapees from places like Flint Oak, there probably aren't...

It varied a lot. Wichita airport had just under an inch, Derby had like 2.5". They're about 5-6 miles apart.

It is well made, although IMO it has one design flaw described below. I wouldn't likely have bought it for my self, but the wife is always looking for birthday/Christmas ideas for her or for my kids to give to me. Before this I used a 7 gallon jerry can from walmart and a bowl. I like this...

https://dakota283.com/product/dash-3-5-gallon-water-system/ I use this around the truck. I put it down before the dogs are released and before we hunt almost every field. The 3.5 gallon size has been big enough to water 4 dogs for a day in most weather. Sometimes I'll skip the first field if...

I read it and sent them a couple of comments. I hope they can deliver.

Uninsulated for me for my last 3-4 pairs of boots, but then I mostly hunt Kansas. The worst handful of days we'll get is probably about normal for the last month or so of your season.

There was a post in the other thread about vests where someone mentioned a shell belt and 25 rounds. We all hunt different covers and with different tactics, but I'm wondering how many shells all of us carry? Hunting Kansas for pheasants, I'll grab 8. 2 go in the gun, leaving 6 in my pocket...

I read through topics like this one and think I'm way under-geared when I'm in the field. I still run a more-or-less traditional hunting coat--Columbia Ptarmigan--but at 15 years it's much closer to the end than the beginning. Sooner or later it will start leaking shells out of the pockets and...

There's really no limit to what you can do with pheasant if you pound it out first. I call it "pre-chewing".