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My setters and I are headed your way to hunt Texas quail with you....lol. Sounds like a great lease and glad birds have rebounded in TX! However I read that the numbers this fall are down a bit from last year? I wonder if the amount of good cover/ habitat concealed birds during the annual road...

Regarding the drought and it's effects on CRP, habitat and pheasant production. As a life long bird hunter, conservationist and landowner, I hate to see severe droughts! However we have no control over weather patterns. Using Kansas as a recent example....in 2010 Kansas hunters harvested approx...

Uguide, are you asking if it's right or wrong to hay your CRP ground.....as the CRP contracts do allow for emergency haying of CRP in times of severe drought? Or are you asking if it is right or wrong for the hunters to come out and hunt, knowing that due to the severe drought, approx 1/2 the...

Steven Vecchio, There's lots of good advise on here and many guys with boots on the ground intel. I first started hunting Kansas in the early 90's. This was during the height of the CRP program and very good numbers. Both Pheasant and birds aka quail. Us southerner's call a quail "bird"....If...

Kansas Quail Hey guys and great topic! I would like to add my 2cents regarding bobwhite hunting in Midwest, bird numbers and habitat. First I'm 48 and had the great fortune to live in Nebraska and grew up bird hunting in the late 70's and 80's. I've long since moved away, but like many of us...

Wanted to share some of my thoughts regarding WIHA. I have been hunting KS since the 90's before the program began, only missing 2011/12/13 due to the extreme drought and very low bird numbers. Have hunted most areas of the state...SE, NE, North and South Central and NW. First, I want to thank...

Franchi Veloce 20 bore (26" barrels) w/ Cyl and Skeet for quail. Imp-cyl or mod for ditch parrots. Benelli montefeltro silver 20 bore (26" barrel)....handles very well and light weight. My fav is the old A-5 light 12 w/ 26" (mod) barrel. However I rarely carry it in the field as I'm hunting...

Howdy, I recently moved to the area and hope to chase a few birds this fall. Any Indiana guys near Evansville on here? I have 3 setters and travel often to hunt.

Fellow KY bird hunter Hey Gents, I recently relocated to western KY and have been hunting birds for over 35 years. There are some quail in Kentucky, I've had some success on farms in the CREP program. I mostly travel west to chase birds....Kansas, Montana and Nebraska. I hope to make some new...

Hello 20bore here....old school bird hunter with a brace of LLewellins. Hope to make some new friends and looking forward to this fall!