>>2151491Im in east Kansas. Was thinking about putting together a meet up for bird hunting this season. We don’t have shit for hogs anyway so try deer hunting. Can point you towards some decent spots if you have the ArcGIS app.
>>2151532My forte. Can provide more info if I know what area you are in but it’s best to have a dog. I have a pointer. Most people can’t invest in a hunting dog though.
For pheasant look for irrigation ditches especially around cat tails or beat brush along a fence line. Theres a reason they are called ditch parrots. They like to run instead of fly. Best to have a blocker if possible. Shoot your limits.
Quail are a bit harder but likewise with the fences. Look for mass. If theres a big stand of overgrown weeds and brush in the middle of nowhere or a corner of a crop field they like to gravitate towards those. Good news is once you find a covey you can usually find them again. Don’t be a dick and take more than a few birds from a covey each season. If theres 10 birds in a covey and you shoot 6 in a season and the turkey, foxes, etc get two more and half the eggs or chicks you have completely eliminated that covey and it won’t be there next season.
Grouse vary by landscape. Prairie Chicken can be passover shot like doves in places. Working them with dogs is harder. Finding them anywhere is a pain in the ass. I try not to take more than one each season. Ruffed Grouse live more up north in short growth timber. Moving through that and shooting is a bitch but you will usually get a lot of shots. And lots of misses. Really fun. Sharptails are another plains bird like prairie chickens just a bit further north in Nebraska and north and west of there. Early season they will hold still for a dog. Later as it gets cold they flock up around the leks and don’t hold for shit. Much eapsier to find though. Same with Sage Grouse. Blue Grouse live up in the mountains and you can plink those with a .22 on an old log road or out of a tree.
