Radar
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We had 14 hunters on saturday and 8 or 10 on sunday and 4 to 6 dogs. Overall 85 birds for the weekend on public and private land close to the colorado line.
I will say birds were spotty at times. Just like any pheasant hunting we walked fields and got up nothing or maybe just a few. The next spot would have birds coming out everywhere. Some valleys and grain fields had literally hundreds of birds.
If there was cover such as grass close to grain fields we found birds. I was very happy to see more of the wheat that was stripped and was 24" tall instead of combined down to 6". Hopefully more wheat wil be done like that in the future. The stubble was almost like short thick CRP.
There was a dusting of snow on saturday morning and it was very damp air both days which helped the dogs a ton with tracking live birds and cripples and finding down birds. We were in the west central part of the state which used to never have many hunters but we saw a lot this year.
Many of our birds held very tight before flushing after running for a long ways. This was the first time i've gotten a bird without shooting, the dog pointed it and i stepped on its tail and caught it. Hope a boot is legal equipment and shot. Someone will probably say i should have flushed and shot it but a bird under a boot is worth two in the air as poor of a shot as I am and I'd rather have a bird with no shot in it to eat than full of holes and lead.
The road heading out.
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A few on Saturday with my pup.
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I will say birds were spotty at times. Just like any pheasant hunting we walked fields and got up nothing or maybe just a few. The next spot would have birds coming out everywhere. Some valleys and grain fields had literally hundreds of birds.
If there was cover such as grass close to grain fields we found birds. I was very happy to see more of the wheat that was stripped and was 24" tall instead of combined down to 6". Hopefully more wheat wil be done like that in the future. The stubble was almost like short thick CRP.
There was a dusting of snow on saturday morning and it was very damp air both days which helped the dogs a ton with tracking live birds and cripples and finding down birds. We were in the west central part of the state which used to never have many hunters but we saw a lot this year.
Many of our birds held very tight before flushing after running for a long ways. This was the first time i've gotten a bird without shooting, the dog pointed it and i stepped on its tail and caught it. Hope a boot is legal equipment and shot. Someone will probably say i should have flushed and shot it but a bird under a boot is worth two in the air as poor of a shot as I am and I'd rather have a bird with no shot in it to eat than full of holes and lead.
The road heading out.
A few on Saturday with my pup.
