Northwest Kansas

Birdman2

Birdman2

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Hey guys,

I have not been on this site in a long time. I had another username then (Grouseman). I have not been to Kansas this year at all. Will be hunting in the NW corner of the state the last week of the season. I would appreciate any info you can give me via pm. I will also be hunting with a new dog. I lost two of my hunting dogs this fall. I hunt with Brits.

Thanks
Steve
 
Best advice I would give is to plan on many beautiful days with your new dog working the fields. I wouldn't plan on finding many birds. Conditions in that area are as bad as I've ever seen them in the past 20 years. The cover that is there is short and dry and the dust unbelievable. My most recent trip, three days, over 15 hours of hunting, three hens, one covey of quail.
 
NW Kansas

Bird-Man,

Do you know of other sections of KS that might be better considering the drought?

Thanks
Steve
 
Bilbo

Bilbo,

How has the hunting season treated you this year? Hopefully you have had a decent season considering the droubt.

SS
 
I'm sorry, I really don't. I was actually thinking about doing South Dakota the end of December, but the reports from there were just as bad. If you look at the various threads on here you will see some guys having late season success. I haven't been out in three weeks, waiting for some snow to hit the area, but it has just been flurries. All you can do is go and hope for the best. But there haven't been a lot of glowing reports about this '12-'13 season.
 
nw kansas

if you haven't been on this site for awhile, too bad for you, ya missed ol' mustistuff. you have three problems with your planned hunt, one is that you don't know where you are going, two, there really is not a lot of birds and three, you are hunting with britts. there ya have it. to get serious though, don't stay home, go. cover is the biggest deal and in some areas it is in short supply, i am at 33 birds and am averaging one ever 50 min. or so. not too shabby. i use two dogs, not britts by the way. don't go very far west of atwood, oberlin area has some land and also some quail that atwood is missing. if you want to believe the bird counts put out by the state, the counties with the highest by far are sherman, little land available, and both decatur and graham, both have lots of places to try and odds of seeing quail are quite good. i here that norton is hurting but it does have a large quail pop. and tons and tons of land to hunt on. good luck to ya, keep us posted, i leave for the area for parts of three days on wed. i expect to shoot some birds and you should too in spite of your dogs

cheers
 
Must.

Sounds like your a E. Pointer guy.:) I have heard all the stuff about Brits before from E. Pointer guys. I've been hunting Roosters for more decades that I want to admit to. I have seen several breeds of dogs in the field while hunting Roosters they all have their good and bad points.

Hopefully I can scratch up a couple Roosters a day to keep things interesting.

Drifter: Glad to hear of your good hunt recently.
 
e. pointer

decades is how i measure my time in the fields too. e. pointer, what is the difference of owning one of those knuckleheads and a britt or worse, a bunch of britts. a really good dog is one that most of the time gets the job done and at the end of the day is a great companion, lassie might work too. if you want to believe ol' spaulding hoffhacker of the pointer dog journal even a setter found a bird once
 
Mustistuff,


Not sure if that moniker refers to your having been in storage for a while, or if you run Munsterlanders and have a hard time spelling:D.

And that crack about setters sticks in this old boy's craw. If I was at my main computer I would post pictures of the greatest bird dog in North America...his name is Murphy. He's just turned 4 and has the gentle personality of a golden, a nose that is the equal of a polar bear (which has been documented to pick up scent at 100 miles), the retrieving ability of the finest lab, the intelligence of the German Shepard, the hunting intensity of a jaguar on the scent of gazelle, and provides companionship only equaled by 12 year old single malt Scotch.:cheers:
 
Very few birds in NW
 
Bird-man said:
Mustistuff,


Not sure if that moniker refers to your having been in storage for a while, or if you run Munsterlanders and have a hard time spelling:D.

And that crack about setters sticks in this old boy's craw. If I was at my main computer I would post pictures of the greatest bird dog in North America...his name is Murphy. He's just turned 4 and has the gentle personality of a golden, a nose that is the equal of a polar bear (which has been documented to pick up scent at 100 miles), the retrieving ability of the finest lab, the intelligence of the German Shepard, the hunting intensity of a jaguar on the scent of gazelle, and provides companionship only equaled by 12 year old single malt Scotch.:cheers:
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Perfect response:cheers:
 
setters

there ain't been a decent setter since count gladstone or johnny crocket unless you of course want to believe ol' spaulding hoffhacker. those other photo's of a setter on point just had to have been staged cause everyone out there know they just don't do that sort of thing

cheers
 
mustistuff said:
there ain't been a decent setter since count gladstone or johnny crocket unless you of course want to believe ol' spaulding hoffhacker. those other photo's of a setter on point just had to have been staged cause everyone out there know they just don't do that sort of thing

cheers
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Do you have a repressed childhood memory of being sexually abused by a setter?
 
oldandnew said:
Do you have a repressed childhood memory of being sexually abused by a setter?
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Glad I wasn't taking a drink when I read this, it would have came out my nose! Lmao:D
 
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