Originally Posted by Sofa King:
I thought i could have 5 doe tags and 1 buck. Turns out it's only 4 does and 1 buck which means i'm done for the year now.
Anyone need a guide? lol
That's what you get when you shoot your wad too soon. [Reply]
Originally Posted by KC Fish:
Pheasant hunting was pretty terrible this year in western Kansas. Between the summer drought and the couple hail storms that hit the area, it really decimated the pheasant population. Last season, we ended up with 54 birds on opening day. This season, we ended up with 4 on opening day.
Saw a very cool fight between a couple bucks though. Headed to a field, and drove by 2 bucks fighting like hell not 50 yards away from us. They went at it for quite a while before the smaller buck ran the bigger one off. Pretty neat to watch.
Just to clarify...
Are saying hail clunked the pheasants on their dome and killed them? Broke their eggs? Killed their food? What's the hail storm correlation?
The pheasant population here is decimated but it's due to laws put in place to protect eagles and hawks for the most part. [Reply]
Are saying hail clunked the pheasants on their dome and killed them? Broke their eggs? Killed their food? What's the hail storm correlation?
The pheasant population here is decimated but it's due to laws put in place to protect eagles and hawks for the most part.
I see a direct correlation to the lack of pheasants in our area and the spring flooding and mass amounts of coyotes (and skunks for whatever reason). [Reply]
Originally Posted by KC Fish:
Pheasant hunting was pretty terrible this year in western Kansas. Between the summer drought and the couple hail storms that hit the area, it really decimated the pheasant population. Last season, we ended up with 54 birds on opening day. This season, we ended up with 4 on opening day.
Where did you go? There aren't many out here, but the drought was not nearly as bad west of here and north of the Smokey Hill River the birds are good and improve the farther north you go. I think north of I-70, things are really good. South of here though, is terrible.
My advice is to walk areas that are close to some water source, usually irrigation. Out here if they can get water there are birds.
Originally Posted by KC Fish:
The hail storms destroyed the wheat and Milo fields. That eliminates the pheasants main source of food and their nesting spots.
Depends on when it hits. If it is close to maturity, it will knock the grain out of the head and then they have a BUNCH to eat. I assume the hail came early? The hail we got came late. [Reply]
Duck season opened today. Spent the last 3 weeks scouting a few areas. Found a great hole, kept an eye on it, kept seeing tons of ducks, especially for this time of year. Get up at 2, at the ramp by 3 at the hole by 3:15, someone already there. FFFUUUUU. Give that group credit, they apparently camped out there as there was already two boats in the water when we arrived and the ramp wasn't wet. They shot the world out the first hour and a half. Went to a backup hole with no expectations. Saw a probably over a thousand teal. Couldn't ever get the few big ducks we saw to work. Killed a teal, a merganser and let another teal get away crippled. Wanted that one, was almost certain it was a cinnamon, and I've never killed one of them. [Reply]
Y'all killer types need to work the runways at KCI/MCI; we land yesterday on 19-R and there are three (1 being a nice buck!!) standing off to the side as we break. Either that or they need a cattle catcher on these planes... [Reply]
