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Bob Peters

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Head out for the grand slam, see if I can do it in 4 or 5 day trip. Sounds like good hunting down there. Now I just need to find where pheasants quails and prairie chickens all live together. The sharptail I'm not worried about, they're all over the place. Please don't mention any places, I'll do my own research.

If this doesn't work out then I'll prolly head out to Yankton and go for mixed bag of roosters and Bob whites. Of course this is all weather dependent. If my vacation days hit bad temps/blizzard I'll be sitting by the fireplace with the dogs in Minnesota.20251211_140159.jpg
 
It's called marketing. It's true you can find all 4, maybe in a couple weeks. It's nothing like hunting in SD. I just got back Monday. I have gone the last 3 years and maybe 6-7 times the last 15. You really have to work for them down there unless you want to pay to play and shoot some released birds. It's certainly not as cold and not much snow. No gates on the highway where I go. I do really enjoy it because of the challenge and the mix bag opportunity. For me it's always been pheasant and quail. Sharptail 20 years ago or if you go north to the Sandhills. If you can do all 4 in 4 days please report and hats off to you.
 
Bob Peters said:
Head out for the grand slam, see if I can do it in 4 or 5 day trip. Sounds like good hunting down there. Now I just need to find where pheasants quails and prairie chickens all live together. The sharptail I'm not worried about, they're all over the place. Please don't mention any places, I'll do my own research.

If this doesn't work out then I'll prolly head out to Yankton and go for mixed bag of roosters and Bob whites. Of course this is all weather dependent. If my vacation days hit bad temps/blizzard I'll be sitting by the fireplace with the dogs in Minnesota.View attachment 12492
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You must have a honey hole. I lived there and still get down that way and have never seen a quail!
 
It was once pretty easy to knock down the triple crown in K.S. Not so much anymore. But I bet there are places where you could.
 
I know a patch in ne. You can shoot pheasants and quail and have seen chickens on it 4 times in the 3 years that I’ve hunted it. I think they’d be damn near impossible to kill. But they are in there.
 
Was hunting NC Kansas probably 15 years ago and had two dogs on point. I took the older dog who was off on my right. Walked up and two roosters jumped up and I shot and killed the first one and missed the second. As I put another shell in my younger dog broke on his point and a covey started getting up. Quickly got over there and dropped one of the late stragglers. As I shot the quail a small flock chickens got up in the cut milo and flew directly over my head. I threw a couple shells in and proceeded to miss a chicken as it was flying over my head. Still think about that moment and still kick my self for missing the chicken!
 
I had the opportunity in SD to shoot Pheasant, Sharptail, and huns in the same field . Just 2 barrels tough to do do all at once. I got so so excited I missed all the Huns.
 
The triple crown in Kansas is doable. I've seen all three species on the same WIHA, but not on the same day.

At this time of year the best tactic for chickens is to stake out a feeding field and pass shoot them as they fly into the field every morning. That used to be the only way I hunted chickens. It was the traditional way to hunt them when they still existed in the Flint hills in huntable numbers. It would take a lot of scouting or a friendly local to find the right field.
 
I did accomplish huns, pheasants and sharpies once in N.D. Bird #s wasn't that great but man I loved the vastness and solitude of it. Nearest neighbor was 7 miles. At night his was the only light we could see.
 
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