CowboyBirdDogs
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Well, the truck is in the process of being loaded and we're headed out Sunday at 11:30am for KS. If by Tuesday afternoon we aren't gettin into enough birds, we'll head to Pierre, SD and hunt the rest of the week. It's myself and my usual upland hunting partner and my other buddy who has never been upland hunting in his life but is really excited about the trip. Now I've hunted KS 3 years and only seen 1 group flush of PC's (that I know of) and it was about 100 birds in mid-January. Me and my buddy thought they were hen pheasant and didn't fire a shot (they were out of range anyway), come to find out they were PCs. So with us going to SoDak and having not seen huns/sharptails/ and sage grouse flush, what is the quickest an easiest way to determine what bird it is on the flush? How do you tell the difference between a hen pheasant, huns, sharptails, sage grouse, and prairie chickens? Not talking about whether they're flushing in a covey or what type of habitat you found them in, I mean solely the flush of the bird. Noise difference? Sight? Thanks for any input!