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This is an outgrowth of my predator thread. Every question regarding predators brings a response of the nature that Habitat is everything. If there is enough Habitat, losses to predators are mnimal and exceptable. In a perfect world, with great unbroken tracts of managed, purposely or...

I'm begining to think that the best service we could do for pheasants and quail is get a pack of coon hounds! I've never seen so many coons. Dead on the road, sitting in trees eating buds, in broad daylight, lots of foxes too. I have them in my yard daily. I'm going to make an effort to shoot...

I am not normally a negative person, but I find I am becoming more and more convinced that wild pheasant hunting as we have known it is doomed. While I recognize the value of habitat, I no longer believe that habitat is the end all answer. In the case of both pheasants and quail, I have had the...

Happy Thanksgiving Missouri Birdhunters. Hope the holidays bring you many multi-bird flushes! Even if they are in Kansas!

Interesting statistics. If you believe the MDC and KDWP figures for 2008, 200,000 quail hunters in Kansas harvested 700,000 quail, m/l. Missouri recorded 20,000 quail hunters, harvesting 200,000 quail m/l. so in Missouri, average quail hunter harvested about 10 birds per year. Kansas about 3.5...

Hunted a serious cross section of NE Kansas yesterday, from Fairview all the way to Seneca, and north and south of 36. I have never seen it like this. Zero bird contact! had 3 experienced dogs down, scenting conditions good with lots of ground moisture, cover heavy, and bordered by corn, or...

Well I think the prospects in NW Missouri are better than NE kansas, and SE Nebraska, so this weekend, with the school musical mercifully over, and my regular 13 year old companions free for duty, I believe we will try NW Missouri again. Have see quite a few birds but older age class.

I am reduced to a couple part days due to afternoon/evening commitments, but got out for a couple of hours today. Hit my best cover in NE Kansas, saw and shot two roosters that led the dogs a merry chase through a really tangled waterway, I mean thick!, both got up together, second year birds...

Be sure to let us know when you see Sam out there slogging through the prairie grass, or pulling the pheasant hunters out of ditches, this weekend. I'll be on the lookout myself. I will also keep a sharp eye for the Easter Bunny, Bigfoot, Aliens, and Santa. This is the promotional photo...

Everybody, rank in order first to last the issues which have contributed to decline of Missouri's Pheasant and quail hunting. This will include decline in bird numbers and issues affecting the loss of hunters as well. Feel free to ad other issues I may have missed. 1.) Rotten nesting season...

Hey, Missouri, we got our own banner heading just like the real pheasant states! We better yack it up, make the most of those couple a dozen birds we flush back and forth to each other, so we can keep our position. I have come to the belief that all the mumbo jumbo about lack of habitat in North...

I am posing a question to all, while there is no sure thing, and I think we all agree that's what makes it interesting, in pheasant country, as you view cover from the car window, you see a certain type of cover and crop combination, and you say to yourself, or outloud, " If there aren't birds...

Well I hacked my way through a cockleburr hell today. I swear they had to cultivate them to get a stand like this! Plants about 3.5 foot tall and absolutelt covered. The long haired dogs even shaved, picked them up in their pads, and bellies. In all our clothes,the big hard nasty kind that...

I hunted private and reliable pheasant cover for 2 hours in North Central Mo. today, Moved 4-5 roosters depending on whether one was a reflush. Solo, had two pointed dead to rights in cover so thick I had no chance to shoot, couldn't get the dogs to break point, all 5 even the nitwit pup. Got...

Nice hike at Bonanza, areas which have held quail in the past, we were unable to find a hint of birds in 2 + hours hike. 4 experienced dogs down. Nice walk through the field though. Maybe reports from some areas NOT a prank. lots of cover and still very dry.

Well today is opening day for all youth in Missouri. I loaded up the 3 girls, 13, 13, (twins), and 7 year old. Went to Bilby. We were the only youth hunters hunting upland. Tons of duck hunters, the parking lot at the boat ramp crammed full. Some ducks flying, teal and ringnecks. We had our...

Well ready or not, a week from today we can tromp the fields, ( empty fields?), for upland birds,( err? excercise). As you see in my previous post I am still waiting a response as to why we have no WIHA program, like all of our neighbors. I am not however holding my breath, probably to...

Well boys, I see all our neighboring states got into the Federal grant money for open field/waters, Walk in Hunting. Missouri nothing. I decided to call the Missouri Department of Conservation and ask why. They are still going to get back to me. I don't want to tell you what a run around it is...

I'll confess right off that as a younger man, hunting was a competition sport, limits were important, less seemed a failure, or at least mildly disappointing. As I grew up, ( a little bit!), the experience, which of course I always enjoyed became more, and more of the primary enjoyment, bird...

I guess this is my week to raise issues which might be offensive to some. I raise this one only for the purpose of civil debate. In that vein let me first say that I am a supporter of these organizations, I wish we had had them sooner!, feel even a little guilty that I didn't try harder to do...