I have been reading everyone's reports and have come to the conclusion that the phez population is NOT what we were led to believe.If I am wrong,thenwhere are all the birds? My crew went to DC and saw very few birds,walking grass,private at that.Not wanting to know your hotspots,but is the bird population up or not.
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Rusty Trigger
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Went to DC, that is the problem, no pheasants in DC, just Jacka$$'s.
kansasbrittany
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Well, there aren't as many birds as usual in S Pawnee county I can assure you. However, there were still some crops in and the weather wasn't the best. We noticed a lot of birds running across the rows in front of us while we were hunting milo. They just didn't want to fly for us. I think this is part of the reason we didn't see as many birds as I'd expected.
Sounds like the area from Hill City to Quinter is pretty good, based on a couple of first hand accounts I received after the opener. One group by Quinter had 14 people in it and they filled their limit. Another group that hunted near Hill City shot 52 birds in 2 days with 7 guys. I would say there must be a pretty decent population up that way for them to have taken that many birds. I plan to visit this all too popular part of the state at least once this season.
I think quail numbers are up across much of the state.
Sounds like the area from Hill City to Quinter is pretty good, based on a couple of first hand accounts I received after the opener. One group by Quinter had 14 people in it and they filled their limit. Another group that hunted near Hill City shot 52 birds in 2 days with 7 guys. I would say there must be a pretty decent population up that way for them to have taken that many birds. I plan to visit this all too popular part of the state at least once this season.
I think quail numbers are up across much of the state.
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NElabaholic
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I hunted the Jewell county area and had much the same result as kansasbrittany, the birds were there but they didnt wanna fly for us! However i did limit out on quail for the first time in a few years, and they're more fun to hunt in my opinion!
kansasbrittany
Banned
I like the quail birds a little more myself as well. I just hadn't seen inspiring numbers for so long, but this year is different. Instead of going on 8 pheasant hunts this year, I think I'll be splitting my time up between the 2 species.
KB,
I live in SEK and have been out once,and some of my crew has been out 2-3 times,only 1 covey spotted so far.I am going out tomorrow to some prime land,will report back on it. I can remember back 30 yrs ago,go out and put up 3-5 coveys in a 160 acres,20-30 birds per...
I wish theose days would return for my kids sake.I don't think that they believe my stories.
Dog down,break covey,go after singles,dog down,another covey.This repeated itself 3 more times.Here's the kicker,this was on a parcel of land less then 10 acres.
How I wish for those days.
I live in SEK and have been out once,and some of my crew has been out 2-3 times,only 1 covey spotted so far.I am going out tomorrow to some prime land,will report back on it. I can remember back 30 yrs ago,go out and put up 3-5 coveys in a 160 acres,20-30 birds per...
I wish theose days would return for my kids sake.I don't think that they believe my stories.
Dog down,break covey,go after singles,dog down,another covey.This repeated itself 3 more times.Here's the kicker,this was on a parcel of land less then 10 acres.
How I wish for those days.
kansasbrittany
Banned
Amen to that!!!