Kansas Quail

[edgarspencer]

Originally Posted by Phil Yearout

They’re drill marks from cutting the stone.

Granite fence posts are fairly common in New England. New Hampshire and Vermont have many quarries still in operation.
Splitting a stone is pretty fascinating to watch. A row of holes are drilled, spacing dependent on the depth of the stone. Two steel 'fingers' are set in the hole, and one tapered pin, in between. The man would go down the line of holes, giving each taper pin one tap, then back again. The accumulated pressure along the line eventually split the stone.
I always said you could split ash darn near finished lumber, but granite fence posts are a close second.

[Rick Roemer]

We have hunted a lot near DeWitt and Searcy. Some around Marianna and Jonesboro. We will be west of Stuttgart near Tucker this coming weekend. You are fortunate to have a farmer friend. I have tried Bayou Meto - I never have enough time to figure that place out - very competitive. I hope birds are moving.

[Phil Yearout]

The plains Indians valued Osage Orange for bow making. As I said, most folks around here call them hedge trees, maybe because they’re often found in the fence lines between fields. And their thorns will flat tear you up!

[Stepmac]

Originally Posted by Kenny Graft

I have hunted Kansas for many years starting in 2008. When Ruby my Gordon setter was 10 months old, we had a great 6 full days in Hill City area Kansas. I got my first double on wild Quail over Ruby...I miss that girl. I lost her a month ago at 14 years and 9 months. Kansas is on track after the years long drought and I have joined a face book blog for Kansas hunting and folks are doing very well now out there. Its time to take my two young setter pups out this coming November....(-:

I was raised in western Kansas. Went to college in eastern Kansas. Bob white quail were thick, so were wild pheasant. Just wonderful. Today they hunt deer. None there in my day. Everyone in my family were raised out there, back several generations. It is indeed God's Country. The wind does blow. Freezing in Winter, boiling in Summer. Kansas is not a place for the weak of heart.