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hunter94

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113 in Greensburg last week, 106 in Pratt today. i think Kansas is toast, literally, if this lasts much longer. i have been out there in the fall, following one of these summers, the dust gets caked on your dogs nose and feet, it rolls off your truck as you drive down the roads and hangs in the air, your nose gets stuffy, the weeds are coated in dust, sweat runs down the crack of your a$$.......as much as i love Kansas, i am going north this season.
 
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this could be the summer that makes 98% of folks not want to bother to come out here this fall- could actually be a good thing- don't know about the dust laying thick like you say- sort of windy for dust in my opinion
 
It will probably be a very tough year for us with shots far and few between. I hope for the best but right now it looks very poor. I worked in Vidalia, Louisiana this week. The Mississippi is still running high and fast. A shame some of that water could not be diverted to Kansas.
 
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113 in Greensburg last week, 106 in Pratt today. i think Kansas is toast, literally, if this lasts much longer. i have been out there in the fall, following one of these summers, the dust gets caked on your dogs nose and feet, it rolls off your truck as you drive down the roads and hangs in the air, your nose gets stuffy, the weeds are coated in dust, sweat runs down the crack of your a$$.......as much as i love Kansas, i am going north this season.
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I picked up Nebraska as part of my territory recently. I guess this will cause me to do some serious scouting. Already made one contact toward the SC who says he knows where there are birds. He doesn't have anyone to hunt with so I gladly will help out. Heck, this is like two years ago in Kansas when a farmer friend begged me to "thin out" some of those pesky pheasants around his spread. The first step into some grass and two roosters jumped up and volunteered to die. I shot my limit in 7 or 8 minutes that day and that included the time it took to put the birds in my vest. That same fella let me hunt right next to some pines which were very close to the house. He has drip lines throughout the pines so you can imagine the amount of birds I shagged out of there, at least three or four hundred on the first pass. Was I in heaven, you go ahead and guess. Kansas has been good to me but this year will be difficult.
 
your right it will be tuff this year but if you are persistent in your searches i believe you will prosper well especially if everyone decides to go to a different state
 
I think it is going to be rough in every major pheasant state this fall. Some carryover birds but nesting looks to be in trouble. Hope time tells me I'm wrong.
 
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this could be the summer that makes 98% of folks not want to bother to come out here this fall
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Guess I'm still in that 2% - the pooch & I will keep right on pokin & diggin around long as we can scratch up a few - these dogs/dawgs ain't stayin home on the porch, I can promise you that! :p :cheers:
 
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Guess I'm still in that 2% - the pooch & I will keep right on pokin & diggin around long as we can scratch up a few - these dogs/dawgs ain't stayin home on the porch, I can promise you that! :p :cheers:
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Me and mine will be out there w/ you regardless of #'s.
 
My tally to date. I saw one quail chick at the Ponderosa this week and one pheasant chick yesterday along Hwy 160 near Johnson yesterday. What I did see was jack rabbits. On a three mile stretch of road last night I counted 34 jack in the ditch. Might be a year to get a falcon.

BTW, I am not going to give out GPS cooordinates on that pheasant chick, as I might be going back after it.:):(
 
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My tally to date. I saw one quail chick at the Ponderosa this week and one pheasant chick yesterday along Hwy 160 near Johnson yesterday. What I did see was jack rabbits. On a three mile stretch of road last night I counted 34 jack in the ditch. Might be a year to get a falcon.

BTW, I am not going to give out GPS cooordinates on that pheasant chick, as I might be going back after it.:):(
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that's just sad, although in droughts past, i too have seen lots of jack rabbts as well, not sure why they become so prolific in high heat/drought years, but my dog doesn't give a flip for pointing the damn things and they can't fly, so i have no interest in shooting/eating them at all.
 
Spent my long drive home from Colorful Colorado on the the phone with my buddy in Dalhart. He has quit harvesting wheat and has all his manpower working to keep the irrigation going on the corn. The irrigation cannot keep up with the corn's water usage and he thinks should the weather should not give us a break from the high temps and high winds that in two weeks, his irrigated corn may be toast.

I left Ulysses about 9:30 last night and driving the highway you would think you were on the beam coming into a major airport with the strobes flashing or being chased by the flashes of the paparazzi. Some of you might not know what I am talking about. Most center pivots have strobe lights on them to tell the farmer the system is operating. I have never flown over them at night, but right now it should be quite a light show. The aquifer has to really be going down, down, down this year.:(:(

Burn bans, fireworks bans, fireworks shows cancelled in much of the area.
 
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hen said:
Guess I'm still in that 2% - the pooch & I will keep right on pokin & diggin around long as we can scratch up a few - these dogs/dawgs ain't stayin home on the porch, I can promise you that! :p :cheers:
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sure think you have the right attitude- when there are less birds a solo hunter and dog/dogs can have a really good time-

I headed out this morning to find a bit of water in the Cimeron Grassland-
wanted to see if the slight rain we've had did anything to the big burn area- some green starting to come up- found a pond and let the Britt's run and swim- not much bird life-even on the roads

youngsters were wound up- they took off- short of it was- quite aways ahead on the dry riverbed I could hear a bit of barking like- so we headed that way- came up on them under a sort of dead looking tree with a Bobcat about 17 feet up- wish I'd had my camera
 
Funny you should talk about jack rabbits. Last year we were out in Ulysses bird hunting and the farmer we hunt on had 5 Portuguese men from the East coast out there hunting jack rabbits. They walk the fields just like they're pheasant hunting (without dogs) and tear them up. They shot something like 250 rabbits in 3 days and were getting ready to head home. It was quite a site watching them clean all those rabbits, something I'll never forget. They stay until their freezer is full then head home to enjoy them the rest of the year.
 
As I tell my wife it is hunting not catching. Can't say I'm pleased to read the outlook, but I've been coming to KS for the better part of 15 years running now and each year I find some rewarding aspect of the long trip for Georgia. I suppose I'll run into the other hard core addicts this fall.
 
Considering that KDWP is now "KDWP and Tourism", I will be interested to see what the upland forecast is for this Fall. I bet it will read something like, "good carryover from last year" and "plenty of birds for the hunter who is willing to walk a bit"...:rolleyes:
 
Carry over or no carry over, good hatch or bad hatch, like hunterofbirds, I will make the pilgrimage out to Kansas once again this year. As I have said before, if I see one pheasant that is 1000% more than I will see around here. I hope that you-all farmers do get the much needed rains to keep your farms going; I know the birds will come back eventually but without the farmers it would be a very bad situation for everyone. God bless you for what you do!
Wolf
 
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