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Recs for Kansas pheasant hunt?
Posted on 6/27/19 at 5:16 am
Posted on 6/27/19 at 5:16 am
Planning on getting a group up
Thanks!
Thanks!
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Posted on 6/27/19 at 5:59 am to i10Duck
Ringneck Haven in Pretty Praire call Randy, used them last several years. These are mostly pen raised birds. If you get enough folks do a European tower hunt, absolute blast and the main reason we go there.
Posted on 6/27/19 at 8:31 am to i10Duck
Ringneck Ranch in Tipton is a great outfit that I hunted with on a larger work outing. Great folks and fun time, we kicked up some bruiser whitetails as well. LINK
If you are doing a small group and have a few dogs I would recommend heading north to South or North Dakota and hitting public land.
If you are doing a small group and have a few dogs I would recommend heading north to South or North Dakota and hitting public land.
Posted on 6/27/19 at 10:26 am to i10Duck
If you are planning on hunting pen raised/early release birds, I don't see any reason to drive all the way to Kansas to do that.
If you want to hit public, you can find birds but it will be nothing like South Dakota. If you want private land with wild birds, you might as well drive to SD for that too.
Kansas has pheasants but nothing compared to the Dakotas. If you manage your expectations you can have a good wild bird hunt in Kansas, but it's highly unlikey you'll just dumb into limits each day.
If you want to hit public, you can find birds but it will be nothing like South Dakota. If you want private land with wild birds, you might as well drive to SD for that too.
Kansas has pheasants but nothing compared to the Dakotas. If you manage your expectations you can have a good wild bird hunt in Kansas, but it's highly unlikey you'll just dumb into limits each day.
Posted on 6/27/19 at 10:54 am to Canard Gris
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Kansas has pheasants but nothing compared to the Dakotas. If you manage your expectations you can have a good wild bird hunt in Kansas, but it's highly unlikey you'll just dumb into limits each day.
This is the truth.
Posted on 6/27/19 at 10:55 am to wickowick
quote:we found birds in KS on all on public land, but we had a stable full of pretty good dogs and walked about 11 miles a day - that being said... it was nothing like the dakotas...
quote:
Kansas has pheasants but nothing compared to the Dakotas. If you manage your expectations you can have a good wild bird hunt in Kansas, but it's highly unlikey you'll just dumb into limits each day.
This is the truth.
Posted on 6/27/19 at 11:45 am to choupiquesushi
I've hunted in Kansas since the fall of 2015 (at the time I lived in TX and would spend about 2 weeks each fall in KS hunting only WIHA and other accessible public properties).
I moved up to Oklahoma last summer and am 4 hours away from some the traditionally best upland bird areas in KS. I hunted probably 20 days in KS last year and averaged two roosters per day. This is with 2 good pointing dogs. Even with having what I would call a pretty good year in KS, I wouldn't recommend it to the travelling hunter that might not be super familiar with the state, especially if he is planning on hunting WIHA. The WIHA gets a lot of pressure in general, and probably only 1/4 of the WIHA properties is worth messing with. That is an extremely large amount of property you would need to "high grade" on each trip. You spend as much time hunting for a place to hunt, as you do actually hunting.
I haven't hunted SODAK but have hunted a good bit to the north, and that part of the world is literally the only place I have ever found that any moron could stumble into birds. Some days might be better than others, and some years better than others, but you know you are in bird country.
I would say Kansas is overrated for upland birds if a person is going to be hunting public access properties. It can be good and it's a fun state to hunt, but I think it's currently living off of it's historical reputation to a degree. I'm not saying Kansas is bad, it's just not in the same league as the Dakotas. If I was driving from a long distance away to hunt pheasants, I would just keep heading north.
I moved up to Oklahoma last summer and am 4 hours away from some the traditionally best upland bird areas in KS. I hunted probably 20 days in KS last year and averaged two roosters per day. This is with 2 good pointing dogs. Even with having what I would call a pretty good year in KS, I wouldn't recommend it to the travelling hunter that might not be super familiar with the state, especially if he is planning on hunting WIHA. The WIHA gets a lot of pressure in general, and probably only 1/4 of the WIHA properties is worth messing with. That is an extremely large amount of property you would need to "high grade" on each trip. You spend as much time hunting for a place to hunt, as you do actually hunting.
I haven't hunted SODAK but have hunted a good bit to the north, and that part of the world is literally the only place I have ever found that any moron could stumble into birds. Some days might be better than others, and some years better than others, but you know you are in bird country.
I would say Kansas is overrated for upland birds if a person is going to be hunting public access properties. It can be good and it's a fun state to hunt, but I think it's currently living off of it's historical reputation to a degree. I'm not saying Kansas is bad, it's just not in the same league as the Dakotas. If I was driving from a long distance away to hunt pheasants, I would just keep heading north.
Posted on 6/27/19 at 12:19 pm to Canard Gris
quote:dunno our worst day on quail there was better than my best day here -since 1984
I would say Kansas is overrated for upland birds if a person is going to be hunting public access properties. It can be good and it's a fun state to hunt, but I think it's currently living off of it's historical reputation to a degree. I'm not saying Kansas is bad, it's just not in the same league as the Dakotas. If I was driving from a long distance away to hunt pheasants, I would just keep heading north.
Posted on 6/27/19 at 12:54 pm to Canard Gris
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I haven't hunted SODAK but have hunted a good bit to the north, and that part of the world is literally the only place I have ever found that any moron could stumble into birds. Some days might be better than others, and some years better than others, but you know you are in bird country.
Absolutely correct.
Posted on 6/27/19 at 1:19 pm to 10MTNTiger
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North Dakota
Southwest North Dakota is covered up with Pheasant.
Posted on 6/27/19 at 1:59 pm to bklibert
I can second the Kuchera rec. Works hard and makes sure everyone is safe.
Posted on 6/27/19 at 3:20 pm to choupiquesushi
Haha well if your standards are what LA quail hunting presently is, then I would say that Kansas certainly is exceptional.
What was your worst day and best day covey finds wise? How many days did you hunt and what was your average coveys per day?
That will tell me real quick what you consider rated fairly.
What was your worst day and best day covey finds wise? How many days did you hunt and what was your average coveys per day?
That will tell me real quick what you consider rated fairly.
This post was edited on 6/27/19 at 3:22 pm
Posted on 6/27/19 at 3:24 pm to Canard Gris
quote:quail in LA where I lived in 70s and 80s were 5-6 coveys a day until 1983...
That will tell me real quick what you consider rated fairly.
in KS... 5-8 coveys a day... one day well over 100 birds... and we never spent a whole day chasing quail
Posted on 6/27/19 at 3:28 pm to choupiquesushi
Hence why I referred to what quail hunting in LA presently is. Most of the of southeast had those numbers into the 80's.
I'd find that rather hard to believe you found 5 coveys per day minimum on WIHA in Kansas. Having a few days like that, sure, I believe it, but that would be a very high number of bird encounters over multiple days, depending on how many days you hunted.
I'd find that rather hard to believe you found 5 coveys per day minimum on WIHA in Kansas. Having a few days like that, sure, I believe it, but that would be a very high number of bird encounters over multiple days, depending on how many days you hunted.
Posted on 6/27/19 at 5:41 pm to i10Duck
Thank you all, did SD 2 years ago. Loved it.
Booking with don
Mostly Pen raised is fine by me as it will be my dogs first trip
Booking with don
Mostly Pen raised is fine by me as it will be my dogs first trip
Posted on 6/27/19 at 10:30 pm to i10Duck
We had 2 groups when I went with Don. One group were more experienced and better shots and limited out all 3 days. The 2nd group should have limited out on 2 of 3 days. We all choose to do the traditional hunt and not the controlled shooting area hunts, but to each there own.
Anyone ever see any prairie chickens on their hunts?
Anyone ever see any prairie chickens on their hunts?
Posted on 6/28/19 at 7:58 am to Canard Gris
quote:our days were largely spent chasing pheasants... when we switched to quail we found them... the term day is not correct...
I'd find that rather hard to believe you found 5 coveys per day minimum on WIHA in Kansas. Having a few days like that, sure, I believe it, but that would be a very high number of bird encounters over multiple days, depending on how many days you hunted.
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