Kansas Quail

Steiner · 01-06-2026, 09:03 PM

Great day with great friends and great guns.

Harold Pickens · 01-06-2026, 09:36 PM

Looks like a great day, Dan.
What is the gun on the top of the picture.
I went to Kansas in January for three years, lately been going to South Dakota.
Maybe back to Kansas next year.

Steiner · 01-06-2026, 10:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Harold Lee Pickens

Looks like a great day, Dan.
What is the gun on the top of the picture.
I went to Kansas in January for three years, lately been going to South Dakota.
Maybe back to Kansas next year.

AYA 28 Harold. Quail numbers are good this year. And it was 65 degrees today. Tough on the dogs but they still found birds.

Andy · 01-07-2026, 08:38 AM

Beautiful Dan. I am still kicking myself hard over the number of aYa and Arrietta I passed up over the years because I thought, "That's so expensive, I'm not spending $2500 on a used 28 gauge..."

Double Lab · 01-07-2026, 09:09 AM

Andy...

Bill Murphy · 01-07-2026, 09:17 AM

I worked in a shop that sold AYA guns. As I recall, the #2 was bought wholesale for about $2300 and I never took advantage. The #4 was under two grand. A friend sold me his #2 .410 for about $2600, just months before they started selling new for over $7000. It happened very fast.

Stan Hillis · 01-07-2026, 04:06 PM

Been a long time since I've seen 11 wild bu'hrds on a tailgate. A most sincere congratulations to y'all. Good picture!

SXS OHIO · 01-07-2026, 05:29 PM

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....(-:

Stepmac · 08-29-2026, 10:32 PM

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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.

Mike of the Mountain · 09-01-2026, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Steve McCarty

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.

Steve, I'm heading to Western Kansas in November for quail, prairie chicken and pheasant. We're hunting 5 days. My buddy there gets into birds all season and he's taking me out with his dogs all 5 days. Looking forward to it!