Has anyone tried to hunt pheasants in Southeast Kansas

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Waterfowler2001

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I know 15 counties in southeast Kansas are out of the pheasant range. I'm just wondering if that's true. Has anyone seen or shot any down in that area
 
Used to hunt my relatives farms down there up until recent and I can't recall but seeing maybe one pheasant ever. That was in the Fall River/Fredonia areas. Not much really for quail down there anymore either.
 
Pheasant, southeast KS

I had relatives that hunted quail in that area from back in the '60s. There are no pheasant in south east KS. And since the floods of '93 and '95, quail have never made a comeback either.
 
Used to find a few pheasants at El Dorado WMA. The last year I hunted there was in 2005. Arkansas City up to El Dorado was about the farthest east we would find them. Kaw WMA had a good bit of pheasants in 1999.
 
The flint hills is about their eastern range except for a few here and there. They just don't seem to make it east of there. There have always been a few around Olpe, but they never seem to get any thicker.
 
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Kansas tried and tried to get pheasants to make it. Had a couple of hatcheries and brooders in I think Caupaldo, and maybe Monmouth? Used all varieties and some personal hybrids, I saw them released, saw them around strip pits in the summer, but they just didn't take hold. At that time, we had quail, and I mean quail! When I was a kid, I take the dog out the door, and had ability to hunt around the 160@ farm and the neighbors, I never had to more than a 1/2 circumference and get my limit, and I could have shot 2 or 3 times that. Read Charles Waterman's book about upland hunting. The area around Girard and west was quail paradise. Eventually the lack of success it was discontinued. It sure was a fun to see Golden Roosters running down the road though!
 
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