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Door slamming and general unreadiness when we get to the field. There's always a little gear-organizing and readying, but it seems like some guys got in the truck in the morning having forgot what we were going to do. The reverse bird hog: loves to go, never wants to take birds home. I guess...

Glad you put quotes around "safe" in reference to Roundup/glyphosate. We all know California thinks it causes cancer, but California thinks that about a lot of things. At some level of exposure I wouldn't be surprised. I still use it, both on our farm ground and around the house. Hopefully...

Very interesting comments from your tenant. Our tenants are also very traditional farmers. Someday I'll probably change tenants and I hope to find one like yours. Did you "luck" into him or did you set out to find one like that?

I think my shortest tenured gun is from about 2018. I bought it for two reasons: a loaner for the HS trap team I coach and a 12 gauge to loan to my younger son for waterfowling since his normal field gun is a 20. I've had two primary field guns since I was about 15 years old. The first was a...

Your pictures are always so much fun. It's great to see a brood or two in the mix. The one with the rabbit, deer and quail was also interesting. Please keep posting them.

I've been watching this one too. So far I'm not impressed with their "inventory". Many of their listings for Kansas seem to be preserves. Either that or they are deer/turkey focused and throw on "oh yeah, we have some birds too". And they might. There's one large property out near Syracuse...

So I spent yesterday morning and early afternoon inspecting our family ground and looking at the results of some of my habitat work. I bumped both a hen and a quail off their nests, saw another pheasant slinking into someone else's wheat field, and heard quail at a different spot. Here's what...

True wild bird operations are darn near non-existent. Some operations advertise it, but if you ask them directly about releasing birds, they admit doing it. About the only option coming to mind is this club: https://midwesthunt.com/ They lease thousands of acres across Kansas for all kinds...

A few things: A Lab from 20+ years ago ate so much grass one time that it balled up and formed a blockage. She needed surgery to have it removed. My first Vizsla would INSIST on stopping to eat grass on our morning walks/runs, especially in the spring. She liked the new, fresh shoots of some...

I was in a couple of adjoining counties last year. There were a few birds. Watch the rainfall and hail reports.

Many will say that the Alpha is not a particularly good training collar because changing the intensity of stim requires more time and attention than a dedicated training collar. I run an alpha 100 and it is true that changing intensity level or switching between tone and vibrate takes multiple...

Sadly, I think you're right. Last year seemed to be pretty good for quail. That was surprising to me. Who knows whether nesting conditions were more favorable for them or cover conditions simply them more vulnerable to hunting. Let's hope it was nesting success. As for this year, I'm...

I very much appreciate the work. Before getting to the text, I noticed and was curious about the pellet count disparity shown for the Kent loads. They were nominally the same charge weight and nominally of different sizes, 4s for and 5s for the other. Yet counted MORE 4s than 5s in the loads...

IMO... You're right that it's about airspace, from a legal point of view. But not really. He wouldn't be suing if people were holding their arms over the edge of the road easement. It's about keeping the public out of corner-locked public land.

The short answer is that it's unclear. I think most fish and game departments advise against it, but that's probably based more on conflict avoidance than law. There has been a recent case in Wyoming where a group of hunters were acquitted on trespassing charges based on corner crossing...

I'm planning SD again myself. If my hunting buddies will go, I might make a second trip up there. They're good for one trip usually, but the second trip is a stretch. In the past I have been reluctant to hunt other states when the Kansas season was open. That mental barrier is fading. 3...

I know we're not hunting for wheat, but it's shaping up like a tough nesting season. https://kswheat.com/news/extended-drought-leads-to-waning-optimism-on-potential-of-kansas-wheat-crop

I also use the SUV version of Ruffland intermediates. I don't need them for my vehicle (Tahoe), but my wife could never get both kennels in her car without them.

Generally I use the tone feature on the collar. Occasionally I'll whistle with just my mouth. I don't even carry an actual whistle anymore.

Not disagreeing at all with this statement in general and in particular concerning the market for nest raiders. But I've heard that the popularity of "Yellowstone" and its spin-offs has driven tremendous demand for beaver. Most beaver goes into the hat market. It seems Stetsons and Resistols...