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Sounds better than last season. All you you guys in West Kansas were pretty down on the hatch. My farming friends have all saying the same thing. Seeing more birds than the last few years

Not the tall, good-looking type. How's the hatch looking?. with the abundance of cover I'm hoping for a good hatch somewhere in Kansas. Not going to take your honey hole, just looking for some encouraging news

Just wondering what part of the state you are in. Don't want GPS coordinates, just glad to hear that there are some wild birds in that heavy concentration.

Ok guys and gals that took their youngins out for a walk. Let's here and see that young Hunter's first bird.! I remember when both of my boys shot their first rooster. One is mounted, the other was hit real good. Don't want where. I have places. Congratulations!!

Well, that's better than a sharp stick in the eye

Just curious if you saw any pheasant on your ride?

Talked to a friend that's SW of Dodge. Lives in Montezuma. Snowing and blowing so hard, can't see across the highway

I can remember when you had to get your motel rooms booked, for next season, the same day you checked out! Every restaurant had big hunters breakfast, gave free thermos fill up, and, if you weren't there30 minutes early, you had to wait on a table.

After a two year health problem, I am able to go out and see what happens. Have some decent reports from the lo, and looks like the weather is going to be pretty good for the opening weekend.

What part of the State? And, was the grass all mowed last year?

Here's the kicker, there's more hay in Eastern Kansas then can be used.

Very good information. Not sure where you are located, I know you are north of Dodge.. The pictures of where we hunt at, are weedy. 10 inches of rain will do that. I disagree about capture and release. How did the pheasant get here? They are a non native species. Sure, it will take numbers and...

Like some of the other on here, I'm a long time upland hunter. Saw the best, during my life span, the 70's, early 80's. Never heard of CRP back in those days. Had plenty of weedy wheat stubble and nasty draws, and weedy ditches. Sometime in the mid to late 80's the population declined, drought...

Wheat stubble was./is the prefer nesting cover for pheasant. Any OG will tell you that. On the topic, got a real good report yesterday from the local sheriff out where we go. He told the LO that his part of the county had a real good hatch, but if you go to the other side of the county, not so...

Thanks for the reply. I have been in contact with a few different people, landowners, combine operations , and my son who travels through the Midwest. Pheasants are in very bad shape. The drought maybe the blame, but , if my old memory is correct, ones use to bounce back during a drought when...