I hate road hunters. I hate poachers. I totally hate trespassers. **** that.

That's BS sec.
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Damn man I'm sorry. Poachers are the lowest scum on earth.

Not many at all man.

This spring was epic dry and it hurt the already low numbers. Hopefully this stupid drought is done and we can get back to raising something. Critters included.

Pheasant sucked this year. Worst year I've ever seen. We ended up with 7 last weekend out in western Kansas. We normally bag anywhere from 30-75 birds over the weekend hunting at the same locations.

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Were you up north again, Fish?

Thomas county, KS. Near Colby. Usually some of the best bird hunting you can find.

One of them buckethead bucks...

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Good luck to all hunters and be safe. I'm going to introduce my boys to hunting this year. They are young and dumb. Lord help me to be a good father.

That's a sad state of affairs. There are no pheasant in SW Mo as you probably know but at one time it was decent quail hunting territory. I hunt some conservation ground and I don't expect to harvest a lot of quail. So far this year I've been out 3 time with my dogs. The first two times out I found a covey and killed one quail each day. The third time out I found no birds. I didn't mind as I had a good day just following my dogs around.

I know it was really dry out west but around here we had plenty of rain. I'm wondering how far east the drought was. I might have a place by Lewis, KS to hunt. That's a little east of Dodge so I'm wondering if they got any rain around there.

I'm going to have to a preserve and shoot some quail and maybe some chukar just so my dogs can have some fun but I also need to find a good place to hunt wild birds.

Coyote population is too high.

Bobcats and Flying Coyote's as well.

And don't overlook that farmers plant a lot more fescue these days, good cattle fodder but hard on quail birds. Growing up around brome/red top/timothy and clover we had tons of quail. Fields of fescue don't have 'em - the chicks can't find their way thru the clumps of fescue is what I heard, but all I know is 'long time ago good, now no good'

I've still been too busy and too obligated to get in a tree more than once so far this year.
This morning, when I was working due to a call last night, instead of hunting like I had tried to....like I've tried several times.....I get a text from my brother, who did it again.

Sonnabitch got his target buck again.

My son is 11. I got him a .243 for his birthday. We sighted it in and he's gonna have a go at his first deer hunt in the morning. Wish us good fortune. We will be hunting from a blind over a pasture that we usually see deer in the am.