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The planting intentions report seems to indicate that notably less corn will be planted in 2022 due to the far higher costs/acre for corn. My former farm loan clients that I talk to in this area tend to corroborate this thinking. BUT it's too early to get a good idea of what's going in the...

I saw the most sensible advice a couple of posts ago ("Shoot some and then form your opinion"). Everyone hunts with a different gun, maybe a different choke, probably a different breed of dog, trained to a different level of competency and hunting more or fewer days than yours truly. And of...

Agreed; some PF good, some not so good. You'll run into that whether it's PF, your Dr., your grocer, your barber, your local bank, or whatever. The cogent question would seem to be--where would pheasant numbers be WITHOUT PF? I am a Life member of PF-- that doesn't mean I back everything they...

The SKB 100's were a good value. They were never meant to compete with high dollar side by sides. SKB also brought out a wonderful bird gun with their English stocked, open-choked Model 280. It was and is a great quail and grouse gun. Wish I could find one NIB!

Doesn't bother me---I've shot a number of pheasants and ducks with it since I got mine in late 2018. Carries like a feather.

Just got fired up from Pheasant Fest--got an energy-crazed yellow Lab that lives to hunt birds---yeah buddy, I'm going next fall---more than once.

I've never been hunting in Kansas--you missed MY point---never been, and after all this bashing I never intend to hunt there. You're so outraged at these farmers/landowners---the AUDACITY of them to hay and graze THEIR land in a drought so as to feed their livestock....yes, they entered a...

No, Weim, I think I got the point exactly. Since December of last year I've been following the posters as they have been cussing/discussing the role of nonresident hunters vs. residents, the Kansas Fish & Wildlife Department, and the politicians and the role each plays in the blame game for...

This is for sure, the BS on this thread is getting way too wearisome and pounding on each other isn't going to help anyone's cause. But you all did accomplish one thing...as a nonresident upland hunter, I NEVER want to hunt in Kansas where I'm not wanted. All you "residents" can spend your own...

For my Auto-5's it's been Bismuth in #5 and #6 shot in my Sweet 16 and Light 20 (choked MOD and IC respectively) and in my Model 12 16 gauge, also choked MOD. I don't shoot steel through any of my Auto-5's (all Belgian made). It would be interesting to try the new BOSS loads but they are...

Hunter, you are absolutely right. I don't know how many times different people have told me, if you hunt with a commercial guide, "No matter what you hear about how "wild" the birds are, with all the hunters that descend on SD in the Fall, most of the birds you shoot will be preserve birds." The...

I'm still seeing #4 and #6 Remington lead Express 2 3/4" at Wal Mart for between $14 and $18 per 25, in both 12 and 16 gauge. They're killers if you do your part. Bought a box of 16 gauge #6 Prairie Storm last Fall but they cost about $32. So expensive I've not shot them yet.

I'll be going, and taking my wife ; we already have our hotel reservations in Council Bluffs. She really enjoys the dog parade and cooking demonstrations and I love it all. This will be the fourth Fest we've attended.

As some have stated, a significant factor in deciding gauge and choke is pattern density. I've killed quite a few wild pheasants here at home with a 20 gauge, 1 ounce of #5 or #6 with IC/mod chokes. I had flushing dogs and the birds, many at that time, got up relatively close. The 20 is not my...

I've got a 1973 Belgian Sweet 16 in IC with a vent rib, but it's so nice I don't shoot it much

One of my favorite mini-series of all time is Lonesome Dove. So I named my first Chocolate Lab Gus--he's 13, got him in 2009 and has been a heck of a fine duck and pheasant dog. Our next Chocolate we got in 2017; we named him Woodrow. Wish I could say he was as stalwart and performance-...

I have both a 1968 Sweet 16 and another one made in 1973. I've also used the Fiocchi Golden Pheasant loads with no problem---but have killed most of my roosters --and every one I deserved to get---with the Remington yellow/green box 1 1/8 ounce load in #5 and #6. No problems with feeding or...

GWP--I grew up in Vigo County and hunted gray squirrels near Arney and Freedom in Owen County as a kid. There were lots of quail in that area in the late 60's but I had no dog and my Dad did not hunt. But I am familiar with your area and for awhile my brother was an operating engineer in the...

OK, I am in Northern Indiana which makes a lot of difference in RE: quail. My best bird season ever was in 1995, when I shot 37 wild roosters and 19 quail within 18 miles of my home.. We still had plenty of CRP and the weather in the previous 2 seasons was conducive to good hatches. I live not...

3car, to me you make it sound like Heaven--now, come on down to Indiana for dinner and convince my WIFE of 48 years!!