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There was a post in the other thread about vests where someone mentioned a shell belt and 25 rounds. We all hunt different covers and with different tactics, but I'm wondering how many shells all of us carry? Hunting Kansas for pheasants, I'll grab 8. 2 go in the gun, leaving 6 in my pocket...

Last night I started applying Tuf-Foot to my dogs' feet in preparation for our trip to SD in a few weeks. The bottle was close to empty so I made a mental note to order more today. This stuff is out of stock everywhere! LCS, Double U, GDS, even Amazon and Walmart are out of stock. Maybe a...

There's lots of discussion on here about deer hunting: leases crowding out public access programs and private access, safety issues during the rifle season, priorities of the state wildlife agencies, inflated property values, deer hunters' disregard for the rights of other hunters to use public...

It probably won't be fun, given the weather forecast, but I'm planning to show up. https://www.backcountryhunters.org/kansas_bha_workday_for_walk_in_hunting_access

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 know prairie dogs aren't really the vibe here, but I thought I would offer these here first. My dad is a regular, but not that high volume, prairie dog shooter. Every few years he gives me a big box of brass to sell. I give the money back to him and he buys more ammo. This is a five-year...

I see a lot of this as I'm hunting in central Kansas pastures and CRP fields. This particular one came from Pratt County. It seems to like sandy soils. It has a rounded form that sometimes takes a tear-drop shape, like this one. Big specimens might be knee-high, small ones maybe the size of...

Hunted several places yesterday, some belonging to my family, others private. It was just me and a buddy and we moved enough birds to keep it interesting. I even got a scotch double on a covey rise. Scenting conditions seemed to be good; the dogs performed about as well as they have all...

Bob's story raised an interesting topic in my mind. Have you loaned your dog(s)? Would you loan your dog(s)? Have you borrowed dog(s)? I borrowed a dog once--from my dad when I was in high school. It was a lab and he was getting on in years, probably 10ish. I'd grown up with Jake and...

There's a huge discussion on Kansas Hunting and Fishing FB about a dog fatality from an uncapped well on a WIHA tract. This is the tract in question. The well is on the tract in the lower left corner of the picture. That's highway 156 at the top and Horsethief reservoir. Be careful out...

Thought maybe a new topic was in order. Not intending to criticize fsentkilr or his project in any way. If people have seen birds respond to cedar plantings, I'd like to hear about it. Yes, I've seen birds in and around cedars when there's snow on the ground. We've all probably seen pictures...

My habitat project for the spring is to do a little discing in some grass stands that have gotten too dense. I want to set the grass back a bit and encourage forb growth so that it's better nesting and brood-rearing habitat. Discing is not the only tool for this, but it's the one I want to...

Lots of negativity on the thread about hanging it up, so I thought I would tell my story from yesterday. My hunting buddies were booked up this weekend so two of went yesterday for the last hunt of the season. Working my landowner network I got permission to hunt a great looking half section...

Can't believe this news hasn't made it here yet. It's all over the Kansas Hunting and Fishing Facebook group and the Wild Bird hunters Facebook group. https://www.hayspost.com/2019/02/01/game-warden-mountain-lion-found-dead-in-rooks-county/ Love to know how the lion ended up dead, but we...

Has anybody gone or is anybody going? I've been thinking about a trip and wondering if anyone has done any good yet. Wish it were a little cooler...

A little disappointing for me. We were in between Dodge and Garden. There weren't many around but we at least killed a few. There was enough water in fields that the pond we hunted didn't concentrate them like it normally would. On the plus side, my average for the weekend was better than...

Every couple of years my dad gives a big box of brass to sell from his PD shooting. It's all Hornady, it's all pretty clean, it's all in the original boxes with the plastic carriers, but's otherwise completely unprocessed. All I did was open every box to make sure it was full and all the same...

Tess is 9 coming into this season and she's slowing down. So, I'm beginning the process for a new one. I'm definitely looking at her breeder, but I want to look around a bit too. Loosely targeting next spring. All you Vizsla guys out there, who have you used and were/are you happy?

My kids have outgrown the youth deer rifle, so it's time to make some room in the safe. It's a Savage 11fyxp3 in 243. Blued metal, synthetic stock with youth-appropriate dimensions, blind magazine, accutrigger, 3-9x40 scope of typical quality for a Savage package gun (I'm not even sure of the...

We had a bigger group than I prefer with 11 people. Our biggest group since the opener, and most of the same people. Like many, we saw lots and lots of hens, and many birds were spooky. However, some held pretty tight and we had some nice points. Pretty nice weather for the last day of...