How to Train Your Pheasant Hunting Dog When the Kansas pheasant hunting season remains on the distant horizon sometimes hunters wonder how to bring excitement back into their bird dog. Often at this point in the year, many gun dogs are lounging and sleeping in the...
Prairie Dog Hunting Shooting Tips Seeing that blaze orange vest hanging in the closet is a sharp reminder of how far away the fall hunting seasons are. The spring turkey hunting season is behind us, but there is an opportunity for hunters to sharpen their skills...
Weather for Pheasant Hunting in Kansas Sometimes hunters will say that it is just too warm to hunt pheasants. Or, at times, pheasant hunters complain that it’s so cold and dry that they are walking past and missing some birds. Let the pheasant hunting weather dictate...
How to Clean a Pheasant Is there anything wrong or shameful with just taking out the breast meat? After all, some might argue, if it will be discarded at the table, what does it matter? However, after a Kansas pheasant hunt you should consider these points...
Tips for Hunting Pheasants and Quail When hunters in blaze orange vests, canvas-faced jeans and leather boots step out of their trucks, they are anxious to set foot in the field. No one wants to chew the fat or over pheasant hunting strategies while holding loaded...
A Father & Son Pheasant Hunt in Kansas A father stares at the kitchen table, wondering how to strike up a conversation with his teenage son. “How should I begin?” and “how should I presume?” he wonders. His son slouches and checks his cell phone for...
Best Prairie Dog Hunting Scopes This is a review of the Istrelok app and Vortex PST Viper scope mounted on a custom built 22-250 prairie dog hunting scope. After being recommended to look into the Istrelok app I searched and downloaded it. To begin you enter...
Pheasant & Quail Hunting Ammo Suggestions Naturally, the downed birds don’t make pheasant hunters think twice about what ammo for pheasant hunting they are using. But when we miss, that results in a slippery slope of doubt. Shotgun enthusiasts will test and argue endlessly about what...
Notes on Training Your Pheasant Hunting Dog I once asked a long-time bird dog owner what literature he would recommend to a new dog owner wanting to training pheasant dogs. Without hesitation, he said two words: “Gun Dog.” The late Richard A. Wolters has authored several...
Upland Hunting Accuracy Tips Accuracy in wingshooting can be honed on the skeet or sporting clay course. But when the bright colors and long tail feathers of a rooster explode from the cover and fade into a small, dark gliding shape in the distance in a...