Prairie Chickens

RutCrazed said:
I was just glad I was in my truck with the kennel in the back this time, last time I had my wife's Explorer because it was just a quick trip......
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That’s my story too… Wife’s explorer, kennel in back cargo area 30 degrees outside middle of nowhere SD. Not a fun drive home
 
carptom1 said:
That’s my story too… Wife’s explorer, kennel in back cargo area 30 degrees outside middle of nowhere SD. Not a fun drive home
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Ouch!!! Mine was a quick drive to Orchelins with the windows down and hose bath with some kind of skunk off shampoo in the parking lot before heading home. Still not great, but much better than that!!
Ozium saved my marriage. 😂
 
RutCrazed said:
Ouch!!! Mine was a quick drive to Orchelins with the windows down and hose bath with some kind of skunk off shampoo in the parking lot before heading home. Still not great, but much better than that!!
Ozium saved my marriage. 😂
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So I was a couple hours from Mitchell and was lucky enough to find a car wash with a dog wash room right behind cabelas. That mixed with some v8( couldn’t find tomato juice) and a little peroxide and it killed it about 80%. But it took awhile to get it out of her vehicle ( she has a nose like a freaking blood hound) I could smell it on the dogs shocked collar for most of a year. Needless to say her vehicle doesn’t get to go hunting anymore. I need to get out after some chickens. I haven’t really hunted them since the middle 70’s down in Westphalia Kansas.
 
I went back out on Sunday (9/28) and didn't see any birds, but also did not have my dogs get sprayed by a skunk, so it wasn't a total loss. 😂
We only hunted for a couple hours due to the heat, I am really looking forward to cooler weather!!
 
Made a quick trip out Tuesday to stretch the legs and give the dogs something to do besides drive me crazy. Saw one group of six, one pair and two singles. None got up in gun range but I was pleased with seeing anything really. I felt like 4 contacts in about that many hrs walking was pretty good.

As an aside, what is the farthest east anyone has seen antelope?
 
Jet said:
Made a quick trip out Tuesday to stretch the legs and give the dogs something to do besides drive me crazy. Saw one group of six, one pair and two singles. None got up in gun range but I was pleased with seeing anything really. I felt like 4 contacts in about that many hrs walking was pretty good.

As an aside, what is the farthest east anyone has seen antelope?
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Hey that’s awesome that’s a good day!

Antelope? There use to be a group by the matfield green ( bazaar) cattle pens along the turnpike. I think they are a reintroduction.
 
Jet said:
Made a quick trip out Tuesday to stretch the legs and give the dogs something to do besides drive me crazy. Saw one group of six, one pair and two singles. None got up in gun range but I was pleased with seeing anything really. I felt like 4 contacts in about that many hrs walking was pretty good.

As an aside, what is the farthest east anyone has seen antelope?
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I've seen groups of 40+ in the winter near our land by Colby while pheasant hunting, in the summer you will see smaller groups around.

I'm pretty sure the biggest population in KS is a long the smoky hill river in western KS.

Here is a terrible zoomed in picture of a large group of antelope. I was walking up to hunt the weedy draw in the middle of the picture and about a mile away a large herd of antelope took off.
 

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ben ji said:
I've seen groups of 40+ in the winter near our land by Colby while pheasant hunting, in the summer you will see smaller groups around.

I'm pretty sure the biggest population in KS is a long the smoky hill river in western KS.

Here is a terrible zoomed in picture of a large group of antelope. I was walking up to hunt the weedy draw in the middle of the picture and about a mile away a large herd of antelope took off.
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That is a good sized herd of antelope. Also, that draw looks like a great place to find some pheasants!!
 
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