pheasant forecast for SW Kansas

They've rebounded and there are expected to be 15-20x more birds than last year. Should be a banner year, birds behind every yucca plant is what I hear.
 
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sure hope you guy's are correct but i would have asked the guy what he was smoking. about sept. 3rd. will spend two days hunting dove in the same area that i sometimes pheasant hunt. pastor john wants to try and shoot a dove but also get his new mutt into some dumb pheasants, will give a report when we get back but it should give us a pretty good idea what n. w. kansas is likely to be

cheers
 
Terrific season ahead, the desert-like conditions having led to unprecedented hatching and chick survival. All birds expected to be larger than normal. ;)
 
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Welcome EJ to UPH! Tell us a little about yourself. Generally speaking you would do better being on the forum for a while before dropping a Bomb on your first post. Guy's are very protective of their info and they should be. There is plenty of info already posted that should give you a answer to your question. However, if you become more involved with the forum you will soon learn you may be privi to some better knowledge. Post your info on the introduction so we can all learn a little bit about you.:thumbsup:
 
I'm 60 a serious hunter first passion was quail hunting but that is almost non-exsistent now I pheasant hunt alot my inquiry was just a feel of how the pheasant population looks for SW Kansas as we know last year was terrible I'm an atty and I do not beat around the bush so to speak what does the population like like as far as you know
 
There is a thread in the Kansas section called drought ends at the pondarosa
Should gjve you all the information you need. I genarally hunt Seward county a few times a year but have left the gun at home the last three
I think right now you would be fortunate to shoot a bird a weekend.
 
I heard the same as someone already posted. So much rain all the chicks that hatched have abnormally long legs to deal with the flooding. Not good because they will run like crazy. It's evolution at it's finest.
 
BrownDogsCan2 said:
There is a thread in the Kansas section called drought ends at the pondarosa
Should gjve you all the information you need. I genarally hunt Seward county a few times a year but have left the gun at home the last three
I think right now you would be fortunate to shoot a bird a weekend.
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I hunt Seward County too and would agree with you BrownDogsCan2. I was in that area recently and the cover is getting better but almost NO birds. The breeding stock is near record lows this year so I do not expect much of a rebound in this area.
 
You guys are letting the rain get to your heads :p

I will tell you that last year was the first year I did not hunt SW Kansas since I was deployed and stationed overseas in Korea for a year (2001 - 2002). Other than that I had been hunting since 1996. The past few years have been the worse since I have been hunting. So I gave it a break last year, although this year I am taking my 14yr old son (who by the way got his first rooster in SW Kansas and we got it mounted) and my new pointing lab out to SW KS and see what we can find.

The thing with this forum is you have to build some credo first before you go asking for info.

I would just go under the KS tab and search for discussions that will talk plenty about how SW KS is looking.

Greg
 
EJ,

Welcome to the forum:)

Good luck wherever you decide to go! It's gonna be a great year for the guys who like to hunt all day and those who prefer not to clean birds at the end of the day:D
 
BleuBijou said:
Welcome EJ to UPH! Tell us a little about yourself. Generally speaking you would do better being on the forum for a while before dropping a Bomb on your first post. Guy's are very protective of their info and they should be. There is plenty of info already posted that should give you a answer to your question. However, if you become more involved with the forum you will soon learn you may be privi to some better knowledge. Post your info on the introduction so we can all learn a little bit about you.:thumbsup:
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He's full of it. I have been here for awhile and they have not told me anything:D
 
sw ks outlook

Locals say they are seeing more birds than last year but by no means as many as they would in a normal year. I was out scouting water holes for doves Tues eve. and saw 5 pheasants on my travels. Last year I saw zero while out driving. On a normal year I would have seen 50-60 birds.
 
kansasbrittany said:
EJ,
Good luck wherever you decide to go! It's gonna be a great year for the guys who like to hunt all day and those who prefer not to clean birds at the end of the day:D
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I like the way you always find the silver lining!!!
 
carptom1 said:
He's full of it. I have been here for awhile and they have not told me anything:D
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Diddo! Nobody ever PM's me any good intel or invites me to hunt. And when I try to brag on my dogs, somebody 3 states away always calls BS on it.

I would have left years ago if it weren't for the funny dog crapping stories. :laugh:
 
it will be another damn tough year in Kansas....I honestly wouldn't waste my time...although you might find a few quail....the land and birds have a lot of healing to do...a lot! :(
 
I think we may be heading into the final decline of pheasant hunting in this country. If you research all areas you will discover some disturbing trends that I don't think will get resolved soon, if ever. Corn is still priced far above what can be earned by land in CRP. It is no longer economically beneficial to the farmer to keep his land in CRP. Most won't.

This drought forced emergency measures that allowed farmers to utilize land that was in CRP and who knows how long that will go on. Loss of that habitat crippled an already declining population.

The continued drought causes hatch failure. Pheasant eggs require a certain amount of humidity in the air to keep egg shells from drying out and becoming too brittle to sustain the growing chicks. Ask any commercial pheasant operator and he will tell you the one thing he watches most closely in the incubator sheds is the humidity.

This oil thing going on in ND, SD and eastern Montana is going to have far reaching impact.

I am 61 and I have watched the pheasant population in Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska decline steadily for the past 20 years. Oh, there have been minor upswings, but the numbers don't lie.

And, now even South Dakota, the last fortress of our little ditch parrots is seeing a precipitous decline.

It just don't look good, my friends.
 
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