North Central Kansas Hunting
 

Pheasant and quail hunting this week across north central Kansas. Charlie Herzog, Rich Flanders, Cal Humberg and Bruce Day. Parkers only, ranging from a couple Trojans, V's, G's, D's, C's and A's. Very nice Parkers and interesting and unusual engraving.

Very dry this summer and hard to find birds.

Went in and looked at a few old sports cars stored in a small town.

Bigest pheasant was 30 bars, 1" spurs, a second or maybe a third year bird. All wild of course.

looks like yall had a good hunt....maybe it will rain a little for the birds this coming year... charlie

Some day I'll hunt pheasants again. It's on my "bucket list". I hunted pheasants from when I was twelve in 1960 to when I was twenty-two.... and then they were gone.

Thanks Bruce, it looks like a great time. I don't think there is a better way to spend an afternoon than walking through a field with Parkers, dogs and friends.

While we had terrible heat and drought conditions this summer, and we need rain starting now , I am convinced that a major reason for fewer pheasant and quail is a significant growth in the predator population. Coyotes, bobcats, raccoons, opposums, hawks, foxes, all are after the birds. Few farm kids trap anymore, there is no market for the pelts with the anti-fur drum beating. I blasted a coyote a couple days ago and don't hestitate to pull the trigger. In Kansas we still have greyhound coursing in which people drive the back roads with 2-3 greyhounds and a sight dog looking for coyotes and foxes. Problem is we don't have enough of those folks now. In a tough year like this anyway with the drought, then we have all the predators looking for the remaining birds, its doubly tough. If any of you are predator hunters, you have my thanks.

Bruce standing rule on my property is; if you see a coyote, coon, Cat or porky Shoot it ! I don't care what season it is.

Dean, you might consider greyhound coursing there in Mass. Those big greyhounds stand waist high and are all legs, chest and teeth and will tear up a coyote in a hurry. I imagine most people back there have never seen anything like it. It would be a real treat for them and might even make the local papers.

A few more pics of our hunt. We got those 5 roosters in 5 very busy minutes... The one thing we didn't get a picture of was the quail, yes a quail that Bruce made a nice clean neck shot on.... with a 26" C-grade damascus 10ga! Of course he claimed that he was aiming for the head so wasn't one bit surprised.

Don't forget it was a Bob because "We don't shoot hens":). It was a enjoyable to hunt with these great guys and Bruce's and Charlie's great dogs. I got to handle some great guns. Thanks B C R.

Those are some nice pictures guys.

Some uneducated folks around here actually put food scraps out to feed the coyotes, coons, opossums, etc. because they "get to see wildlife" this way but when their little doggies and kittys go missing they can't believe the coyotes would do such a thing. Yup, it's a strange world we live in back here in the urban East.

Looks like great hunt guys, up at Blackwell working this week and hunted around Caldwell last weekend. Seen good birds in the area. Bruce the boys out running dogs this weekend over here seen 2 trucks go by setting here on location, I should have taken I pic of rigs.

Craig

Craig, lots of drilling for oil and gas in Kansas, seems to be all horizontal downhole and fracturing......lots of production. In Cimarron County KS, a new well 1 m from a buddy's section is producing 62 barrels a day, a one third share of that would be nice.

Yes, get some photos of the greyhounds and the truck rigs for them. Few people who live outside the central plains have seen this sort of thing or the size, strength and speed of those dogs.

Those dogs are scarier than the rottweilers and dobermans I know.

Bruce, We are working on 9 vertical well in this field and yes I'm always trying to get overides myself.:) I'll try to catch a pic of the boys but you know how fast they cover them section when the action get hot, I recall 20 yrs ago around home we had maybe 10 or so guys that ran dogs and had a fabic covered plane that they buzz the trees with and guys scatted around the section watching. The old CB's would be buzzing with guys trying to get there catch dogs on it first just like Indy 500 start, most ran some type of wolf hound for kill dog. Well that pulled up some old memories of fun times. Think I'll try to look up some birds tomorrow.

Craig