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kind of corners the KDWP haha
 
It's just crazy how much the hunting has changed since the 2000's. That time the hunting was so good. My father said the 1980's were the best. Kansas harvested over a million roosters a few times during that decade. Which is just crazy to think about for Kansas.
 
They don't seem to be in any hurry to get the forecast out. In the mid 2000s, Kansas was as good or better than what I experienced in South Dakota last year. Some good times.
 
Maybe I'm getting forgetful but seems it was out the first week of September or so back in the good ol days. Guess it doesn't really matter.
 
The 70s in SE Kansas and even into the 80s was as good of quail hunting as you could find in the country! It was absolutely lights out quail hunting.

Pheasant hunting was great within a 2 hour drive of where we lived just north of Topeka.

Quail hunting is still decent but not SE anymore. Pheasants are not even a fraction of what they once were. Sad situation.
 
duckn66 said:
The 70s in SE Kansas and even into the 80s was as good of quail hunting as you could find in the country! It was absolutely lights out quail hunting.

Pheasant hunting was great within a 2 hour drive of where we lived just north of Topeka.

Quail hunting is still decent but not SE anymore. Pheasants are not even a fraction of what they once were. Sad situation.
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I have only been hunting KS since the late 90s and can't even imagine what pheasant numbers looked like prior, because I thought they were amazing then! Sadly it has been in a decline (at least in the area I hunt) since the early 2000s. Numbers have gone up and down, but nothing like it was in the 90s.
 
duckn66 said:
The 70s in SE Kansas and even into the 80s was as good of quail hunting as you could find in the country! It was absolutely lights out quail hunting.

Pheasant hunting was great within a 2 hour drive of where we lived just north of Topeka.

Quail hunting is still decent but not SE anymore. Pheasants are not even a fraction of what they once were. Sad situation.
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You aren’t lying. In fact there were a lot of hunters that went in and around Perry back then. I had some good hunts up north of topeka even into the early 2000’s. I drive that area now often for work. I saw a mature rooster a couple summers ago, but haven’t seen one since.
 
My experience is that the good pockets have gotten smaller and, much more dramatically, that the voids between the good pockets have collapsed from putting up 25 birds in a day, to zero. When I started pheasant hunting I did 95% of my pheasant hunting in a triangle between Abilene, Beloit and Marysville. The few times I went out west the pheasant numbers were pretty amazing, but I never had trouble limiting in a days walk (usually less) in that area, so I rarely bothered unless I was hunting with friends and family out west. It's always fun to see a couple hundred birds, but my motto was "you can only shoot 4", and I was quite content to drive less and walk more. I would not bother hunting that area today for pheasants. In fact, this year might be my last year hunting Kansas for a while, I've slowly got the renewal date of my annual license moved back to late January, and if this season is like last, as much as I love being there, I simply do not have the time left in my legs for entire wasted seasons.
 
s.davis said:
My experience is that the good pockets have gotten smaller and, much more dramatically, that the voids between the good pockets have collapsed from putting up 25 birds in a day, to zero. When I started pheasant hunting I did 95% of my pheasant hunting in a triangle between Abilene, Beloit and Marysville. The few times I went out west the pheasant numbers were pretty amazing, but I never had trouble limiting in a days walk (usually less) in that area, so I rarely bothered unless I was hunting with friends and family out west. It's always fun to see a couple hundred birds, but my motto was "you can only shoot 4", and I was quite content to drive less and walk more. I would not bother hunting that area today for pheasants. In fact, this year might be my last year hunting Kansas for a while, I've slowly got the renewal date of my annual license moved back to late January, and if this season is like last, as much as I love being there, I simply do not have the time left in my legs for entire wasted seasons.
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I have hunted the Norton and Decatur counties for the past 20+ years and have seen a steady decline in numbers. I hunt exclusively on private land as well. They have not changed their farming practices, so I attribute it to weather, mainly drought.
 
Agreed. "Pockets" can be pretty small. Like maybe a handful of sections. Not even close to a whole county.
 
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