Recent content by rooster82

Wow that’s an awesome picture thanks for sharing! How bad was the hail around dodge tonight? Was it bad enough to damage the pheasant crop?

I hunt over a yellow lab, absolutely love the points. She doesn’t hold a point but for just a few seconds, but when she is about ready to flush or point a bird it is unbelievably obvious. Love the versatility of labs. Hunt upland birds one day and then go shoot ducks the next. Got her from top...

So yesterday I was driving down our dirt road and ran across a hen quail that was in the road. I pulled up to her and she just ran around in circles but would not fly. After a couple minutes she finally ran to the side and as soon as she did we saw several babies in the ditch. These things were...

Well the pheasant gods were good to us this morning. Hunter was able to get his first pheasant of his life and also was able to get his youth limit! I have a photo but I can’t seem to upload the image. The website gives me an error. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I’m trying to do it...

I bought my son his first shotgun when he was 7. It was the moss berg youth 20 gauge. He was pretty small as well but was able to handle this gun. Just last weekend I ended up buyin him a Remington 870 youth 20 gauge (he is now 9 1/2) and it is definitely bigger so I would recommend finding...

That's great to hear Maynard. given that both pheasants and quail nest through the same conditions is there something in particular that would adversely affect pheasants vs quail? I don't know a ton about the details of nesting but I would think that as hardy as pheasants are they would at...

Hope everyone is loving this mild weather we have been having lately. Haven't heard much about chick sightings / conditions in a while. How are things looking out there? I'm hearing some good things about quail broods from the local wildlife area manager in the eastern part of the state. We've...

For any chicks that have hatched hopefully it was warm enough with the heavy rains yesterday to keep them from dying.

Maynard how is the wheat looking? Is it still a bit early to see chicks?

Great to hear Maynard! How's the wheat looking this week in your neck of the woods? Any of it standing back up?

Those are great thoughts Maynard. How do you feel about the condition of the wheat around dodge and how the pheasant nesting will fare as a result of the storm? I'm gathering that there was a bit less snow around dodge (although still significant). We hunt with family friends around dodge...

Weekend storm I have read mixed reports on the Kansas wheat website regarding the outlook for wheat recovery. Sounds like it still may be too early to tell but there were some fields that they believed were already recovering from the storm. Sounds like there are a bunch of different scenarios...

A few years back we were hunting in ford county and we surrounded a reliable honey hole corral full of weeds and as usual it exploded. I was fortunate enough to be in the middle of it and tagged a triple. Had to walk about a 1/4 mile for the third one as I hit it in the head and he flew a ways...

It was the most doves we've seen in years. It was an excellent morning (after the storm blew through) and the boys (my son, 5 and his cousin, 6) had the time of their lives racing to get the birds before the dogs did. 11 of us got our limits in less than 3 hrs. Now it's time for jalape?o...

Has anyone heard how the Cheyenne bottoms are looking? Seems like that area of kansas has been getting good moisture this summer.