That's a good way to stir the pot. Once the pay to play game starts it won't end. Kansas will turn into the Dakotas, Texas, Wyoming, etc, etc. Yep a great way to piss a lot of good people off.
Land owners don't care, the state doesn't either. Pheasants for ever would never make it here. There's nothing to hunt and people want results immediately.
Totally different story here. The guy that has cows on state owned ground has tons of his own ground. No emergency here, we don't have that program here.
Ever wonder what is going thru the minds of the UDWR? They call this habitat management? Graze it to death. This used to produce a ton of pheasants....not anymore.
The warden said someone called us in and said we were walking on the tracks. We were not. We were walking the crops up to the tracks. Occasionally if we got a rooster we would cross the tracks. But the 2 sheriff's and the warden never saw us near the tracks. We still got a ticket because he said...
I agree with you Kansan. But this year has proven to be a little different. For the most part I have been treated very well in Kansas. I will return but I'm not sure my friends will.
My friend said they asked a farmer if he owned a piece of ground. He said yes and let them hunt it. A while later here comes DWR officer and tells them they are trespassing. They told the officer they got permission from the farmer down the road. The officer left and came back and said the owner...
I have hunted Kansas since 2010. I have never had an issue with getting on land or with locals at all. In fact I've never even seen any type of law enforcement until last year. This year a friend of mine was hunting around Colby and Brewster and their group had a terrible encounter with a dwr...