Recent content by bnz 41

Yeah, I too was hopeful on the quail, but on this day they were no where to be found. I will certainly be back out again. One possible explanation is that the weather was kind of weird. It was really warm (swatting mosquito's while pheasant hunting as strange as that sounds), plus there was a...

Pretty rough opening day as expected. We didn't see a bird all of opening morning. I think that it's a combination of the abysmal habitat (at least in my area of South Central NE) and crops still in the fields. I didn't expect much but I hoped for at least a few coveys of quail. No such...

Week 2- I didn't get to hunt much but I took my son on a walk/hunt down a fence row near our house and we did flush a nice big covey of quail. I got 2. One of these days I might have enough wild game for a whole meal:rolleyes:

Welcome. We're glad to have you here.

We hunted a waterfowl production area at sun up on Sat. I would say that I was pleasantly surprised with the birds that the area held. We hunted there until about 10AM and flushed probably 20 birds total. About half were roosters and we ended up doing OK. Many actually flushed fairly wild...

I too am a big fan of the Federal "old PF" load. I feel like 1 1/4 of 5 or 6 shot at 1500 is way plenty for any hunting I do. I do however load my own shells to use in light doubles. I basically load a standard 3 dram (1200fps ish) target load with an ounce and an eighth of #5 instead of #8...

I generally roll with either a Beretta 390 sport or if I know it will be lots of walking I'll go with a light English-style double. Mine's a Spanish Garbi that I got an unbelievable deal on.

Yeah, We took the picture right after we got out of the field and at the time, I didn't even know he got hurt. There was no blood etc. When I got home I gave him a quick tailgate check and that's when I noticed it. It was mostly superficial but the vet put some staples in and gave him some...

Mud in central KS? My father-in-law would kill for mud. I'd gladly take one for the team if it meant that they got some moisture. I got down here and they hooked me up with the 3/4 ton ford flatbed with the bale-loader. I feel much manlier (is that even a word?) now.

I'm heading to Hays right after work today. Funny thing is although I'm packed and ready to go, my wife took the Durango to go see her sister so I'll be the guy rolling south on Hwy 281 in the '99 Caddy with the huge dog crate in the back seat:nutz:. Luckily I can borrow one of the farm...

In that case you should have a nice time. It is really pretty country and if you are polite and ask, you may get let on to some nice private land as well. The CRP-MAP (walk-in) land is also generally really good cover, but it sometimes really gets pounded, especially this early in the season...

I personally shoot the same load and run with an IC well into December. There are a lot of variables involved obviously including temperature, exact shotgun bore diameter, shot plating etc. But I generally feel well taken care of with a good quality IC choke shooting the Federal PF load (copper...

I'm originally from Clatonia (15 miles NW of Beatrice) and unfortunately I have to say that the bird numbers are pretty dismal around the area. We have had some luck in previous years a little farther South and East near the KS and Missouri border in the Falls City Area, but you will walk a lot...

Thanks for the compliments. Yeah it was a nice day. I'm looking forward to Saturday for the KS opener. My "sources" tell me that they didn't see many birds all fall, but that since the milo is off things have improved a bit. EEPIT-KAY ON THE OWNLOW-DAY (pig latin:)). Seriously though have a...

I'm new to the forum here, and just wanted to introduce myself and share my opening day experiences. I live in South Central Nebraska near the KS border and hunt in both NE and KS. EVERYONE was predicting gloom and doom as far as bird numbers go around my area and so I didn't have too high of...