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OneEyedHunter
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- Nov 11, 2023
- #1
How was it? I'm especially curious about the Liberal-Hugoton area. Thanks!
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GetTothePoint
Well-known member
- Nov 11, 2023
- #2
Got 2 "pretty crappy" and one "could of been worse" coming from the 3 groups I talked to that I trust. The "could of been worse" was a long ways from the other 2, those 2 bad reports were within an hr of each other hunting private and wiha. Second hand knowledge though
carptom1
Well-known member
- Nov 11, 2023
- #3
A group from work was out hunting family ground out by Goodland. 7 guys with four dogs shot 4 birds hunting most of the day. Said they saw maybe 20 total.
Uplandhunter67
Active member
- Nov 11, 2023
- #4
Hit a WIHA this morning that generally holds birds. The birds were there. Flubbed a couple of cake shots but got it under control. I didn’t see a lot of birds but more than last year.
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Chessie 67
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- Nov 12, 2023
- #5
We had a great morning yesterday. WAY better than expected. Hunted 3 quarters and probably flushed 100 birds. I personally had a limit by 9:30 (but kept hunting with the group).
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BrownDogsCan2
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- Nov 12, 2023
- #6
That’s awesome you two.
I’m back in Nebraska haven’t had much pretty jumpy. I’ll probably leave about noon and get a couple hours closer to home and hit one or two fields in kansas
Ky Setter man
Active member
- Nov 12, 2023
- #7
How about the quail? Seeing much with those?
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JSMITH
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- Nov 12, 2023
- #8
very spotty. Didn’t see a bird the first 2 hours, then found them in heavy cover (on a 65 degree day?!) quail probably not as good as expected/reported by the farmer. Pheasant probably a little better. There had to be water nearby, to find any birds.
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OneEyedHunter
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- Nov 12, 2023
- #9
Chessie 67 said:
We had a great morning yesterday. WAY better than expected. Hunted 3 quarters and probably flushed 100 birds. I personally had a limit by 9:30 (but kept hunting with the group).
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OneEyedHunter
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- Nov 12, 2023
- #10
Uplandhunter67 said:
Hit a WIHA this morning that generally holds birds. The birds were there. Flubbed a couple of cake shots but got it under control. I didn’t see a lot of birds but more than last year.View attachment 6499
nwkansnative
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- Nov 12, 2023
- #11
OneEyedHunter said:
How was it? I'm especially curious about the Liberal-Hugoton area. Thanks!
North Central woke up to near tropical storm winds. Three guys, two dogs, 3 roosters, 4 quail and we missed a lot of quail. This morning (much better wind situation) 2 hours, 1 rooster, missed more quail, 2 guys, 1 dog. If you are willing to hunt quail with an occasional bonus pheasant it’s not the worst year ever. But it’s not good especially pheasant wise.
Uplandhunter67
Active member
- Nov 12, 2023
- #12
Got out again for a couple of walks. First WIHA was quiet. Flushed a hen. Ran into a muley buck down in a draw. He actually shadowed us on our way back to the truck. His left tines were broken off so looked like he had been scraping and maybe he was just looking for another fight.
Pushed on to one of my favorite WIHA. It’s nothing more than a postage stamp. Most people just pass it by. It has always had held a bird or two.
Put three birds in the vest. Saw two others that flushed out of range.
Now that opening weekend is over it’s time to get back to chasing prairie chickens.
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Chessie 67
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- Nov 13, 2023
- #13
Yesterday our bird contacts were a little more spread out. Pushed 5 coveys as well. Still much better than expected, minus the heat…76 degrees
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BrownDogsCan2
Well-known member
- Nov 13, 2023
- #14
I ended with a limit out of Nebraska yesterday at about 1230. I hit a couple of draws in Ks that hold birds , I think they had both been hunted. The second one there was one rooster in it that flushed wild. Walking back to the truck my peake was walking behind me at a trailing heel. I turned around and looked at her and was surprised to see her carrying a dead rooster. She was so proud like she was carrying around an old shoe just waiting for me to take it from her.
Had forty minutes left to walk a chicken field , two flushed wild on the wrong side of the ridge.
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OneEyedHunter
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- Nov 13, 2023
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Uplandhunter67 said:
Got out again for a couple of walks. First WIHA was quiet. Flushed a hen. Ran into a muley buck down in a draw. He actually shadowed us on our way back to the truck. His left tines were broken off so looked like he had been scraping and maybe he was just looking for another fight.
Pushed on to one of my favorite WIHA. It’s nothing more than a postage stamp. Most people just pass it by. It has always had held a bird or two.
Put three birds in the vest. Saw two others that flushed out of range.Now that opening weekend is over it’s time to get back to chasing prairie chickens.
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matto
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- Nov 13, 2023
- #16
Borrowing GetTothePoint's lingo, we had a several spots that were " pretty crappy" and several that "could have been better".
One WIHA that has always held birds was a complete bust. It's a short quarter of CRP that usually has grain close. Closest grain was couple hundred yards. The CRP was burned in the spring. So, it was super tall but thin at ground level with some nice ragweed, smartweed, goldenrod, etc mixed in (which is why they burn), but it also probably means a near total lack of nesting this past spring. If birds find their way back over the winter it will make great nesting cover this coming spring.
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dag
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- Nov 13, 2023
- #17
BirdGuy
Member
- Nov 13, 2023
- #18
Between sat/sun we moved 6 coveys of quail, only hunting about 4 hours both days. Saw more non resident deer hunters than fellow bird hunters.
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dogman
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- Nov 13, 2023
- #19
Had decent luck out here in SW Kansas My party of 6 shot 17 roosters and 14 quail on Sat and a half day Sun
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RutCrazed
New member
- Nov 13, 2023
- #20
I lost access to the property I had been hunting since the 90s due to a land sale, so rather than trying to figure out a new spot on opening morning I decided to not head as far west and just try and get the pup on some birds. We found one covey of quail and I shot one for the dogs and called it a day. I will wait until the "opening day" rush wears off and try later in the season.
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