[Sisco]

I'm pumped!
Kinda like a holiday around here; relitaves come in from out of town, some merchants are having specials, you can have breakfast at the church in the morning before heading out. :D

[Larry Ashcraft]

Yeah, I hunted around Dodge City about 25 years ago. Pancake breakfast at some lodge (forget which), sporting goods stores open at 7:00 a.m., brought back a bunch of birds, supper, then drinking beer at the Elks club and watching the game. There were about 12-14 of us hunting, but only about three (me and my Wichita buddies) were doing the shooting. The rest of the guys were walking around drinking blackberry brandy. One guy got drunk so somebody else asked to see his shotgun, unloaded it and handed it back. He never even noticed. :D

Sure was fun though.

[Sisco]

Larry;
Come on out and we'll find some birds. Owe ya one for hosting the get together!

[Larry Ashcraft]

Man, that sounds like fun, I haven't hunted pheasants for years. Lemme see if I can put together a day off.

BTW, thanks! :)

[Lennyjoe]

Grew up shooting pheasants in Ohio. I miss it.

Im going out Quail hunting in the morning. Gotta dress warm cause its freezing out here. Down to a friggid 51 degrees tonight.:what:

[Sisco]

Went out for about five hours this morning, five of us got six birds. Personally I got skunked; always in the wrong place at the right time. Only got one shot off.
Really crowded out there on opening weekend, lots of out of town & out of state hunters. Had permission to hunt several spots but so did others. After the first field we hunted the rest were occupied by other parties or had already been hunted a couple of times.
Things calm down after the first couple of weekends though.

[Lennyjoe]

Dont feel bad, I got skunked on Quail too. Buddies flushed a few and got one but I didnt get squat for Quail.

Did get 2 cottontails.

And one really big rattlesnake. 4 1/2 ft long and as thick as a baseball bat. He almost bit one of my buddies so he took him out with a 12 guage. When we started gutting him he had a cottontail about a quarter of the way digested in his gut. A friggin cottontail. 10 buttons on his rattle too.:what:

[gun-fucious]

My Dad & i went out for Ringnecks a couple o weeks ago

10 RNPs and 2 Chuckars

[gun-fucious]

Libby the ESS with another retrieve:
http://www.thehighroad.org/attachment.php?s=&postid=589243

[SteelyDan]

Our season started about a month ago, and it's been a very good year. About 75 or 80 so far for the group, on the two properties we hunt. Which is good, because the ducks and geese have been very scarce. Yesterday it got down to -10 below at night, and it wasn't a heck of a lot warmer for the hunt. With 3" of crusted snow. Very nasty, I'm still tired.

[Lennyjoe]

:mad:

I miss Ohio when pheasant season is open.

[Coltdriver]

Colorado Pheasant season opens this Saturday.

Having been skunked on my Elk hunt I now know what I bought that 870 for!

I am going.

The DOW has set up 160 thousand acres that you can walk into for a $20 sticker on your license.

Any tips for hunting with two people and no dog??

[Sisco]

Any tips for hunting with two people and no dog??
That's the way I usually hunt.

On large fields, split up and go you own ways. walk the edges first then start back through a little further in. Two people walking side-by-side usually drives the birds away into heavy cover (they'd rather run than fly).

One trick I heard the other day but haven't tried is to leave you vehicle sitting beside the field, leave the radio on and walk towards it. In theory the noise from the radio acts like a "blocker" and keeps the birds from flying out the end of the field too quickly.

$20 to hunt subsidized land? Guess we're lucky here, Fish & Game has the same type of program, landowners are paid to allow walk in hunting but there's no fee for using the spots.