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I live in KC and am a glutton for punishment so I'm heading out there again thanksgiving weekend. Will probably hunt some WIHA in the Russell area (saw a rooster fly over I-70 at dusk last friday when I was driving out) on the way out to Thomas county then make some day trips to the...

I'm a pretty novice hunter but my family has some land and an old farmhouse in thomas county that I have been hunting for the last 3 years. Between family land/neighbors/WIHA there is a couple thousand acres I can hunt(crops/crp/pens/pasture/etc) within a couple miles of the old farmhouse I stay...

I love this area, spent a night there a couple of years ago on the way back from trout fishing in WY and caught one of the biggest bass of my life in a little outlet stream from dewey lake. Followed that up by catching some 3-4lb bass and a pike, all within 30 minutes of showing up. The...

Was out in NW KS from Sept 1-3 and got a total of 23. No decoys or anything, just walk around the windbreaks and wait for the birds to fly out. It got pretty hot in the afternoon so I would sit in the shade and hope some flew by. Probably shot 3 shells for every bird I hit. A couple of the...

More questions. Should I leave area #1 to be overgrown with the same weeds/sunflowers/alfalfa/grass that was there last year or should we actually plant some sort of seed? There is about 60 acres of CRP about .5 miles from this area to the north and the south.

My big question is does the hog panel fencing stop the pheasants from using area #2 since they can't run under the fence? Basically since we are not going to have any pigs out there (there have been no pigs for 30 years but the fences remain) should we take down the hog panels?

Hoping to get some advice on how to maximize the pheasant potential on these 2 pieces of land. This land is in NW Kansas for reference. #1 is a 2 acre plot inside of a windbreak where my Grandpa used to dump hay for his cows in the winter. It got pretty tore up so when we moved to more row...

Reminds me of a friday afternoon where I left work around noon, was driving out to our land near Colby but knew it would be dark by the time I got there so I stopped at some WIHA land by Hays around 4pm. Hunted it and flushed a couple of birds out of range but on the way back to the car Milo...

How far out in Western KS were you? My family has some land around Colby and I've never seen any turkeys out there but my dad checked some game cams out there a couple of weeks ago and we had a turkey grazing the front lawn in early April. The only tree's in about 2 miles are the windbreak...

Nothing too outlandish but my favorite flush was in a corn field with a weedy draw down the middle in NW KS. I have a GSP mutt I picked up at the pound that doesn't point but will jump in the nastiest weed pile anyone has seen. There is a WIHA draw in the middle of a corn field that I regularly...

Crazy looking bird, thanks for sharing!

Quick update on this post. I gave a half hearted hunt through this CRP patch over thanksgiving weekend and didn't see anything so I let it be. In mid January on my last trip of the year I decided to give it another shot and the bird count was back to what I normally see. My guess is the birds...

Here is a first, had a dam barn cat steal a bird from me! Was out hunting in WKS last weekend and got a couple birds. I typically put all the roosters in the garage fridge until the last day when I clean them. I think some tail feathers were sticking out that allowed one of the barn cats to...

I ended up getting 5 over 3 days which is pretty typical. I just started hunting 3 years ago and almost always hunt solo with a dog on a mixture of private land and WIHA. I'll usually kick up a couple single/doubles and typically flush about 1 group of 5 birds a day(sometimes out of range). I...

I just got out to the Colby area (1hr west of Wakeeny) and we have around 2-4 inches of snow on the ground here but that should melt soon as the highs are going to be 40+ the next couple of days including close to 60 early next week. The Wakeeny/Hays area has around the same amount of snow...

I have a pretty similar story of accidentally becoming a pheasant hunter later in life. My dad grew up on a farm in western KS but was never a big hunter so when I was growing up in Kansas City pheasant hunting never came across my radar. About 5 years ago when my grandparents passed we...

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It might make sense in WIHA's near more populated area's but I don't think it's needed in most places. I mainly hunt in NW KS near Colby where we have an old homestead and usually hunt a couple of WIHA's each day I'm out there. The only time I ever see any other hunters or signs of any other...

When I was hunting over thanksgiving weekend I stopped by this Taco Truck in Colby KS for a quick lunch and it was amazing. https://g.page/LosJarochosColbyKS?share

Question I was thinking about this during opening weekend here in Kansas. When an existing CRP field is replanted how long does it take until the birds resettle it? My Aunt has some CRP across the road from our place that was re-enrolled then disc'd and replanted this spring. This CRP was...