Kansas Pheasant Hunting - One Example

Kansas pheasant hunting protective cover habitat.

Diversity not familiar to many traveling in from non native pheasant states.

Storm On Pheasant Point

A cut milo field with late summer weed growth.

Milo is a low cash value small grain crop. It is grown as a rotational crop between higher valued grains on non irrigated fields. Its profit margin and motivation for farmers to plant it is due to its ability to be grown without fertilizer and/or in poor soils. It is planted late in the spring or early summer well suited on wet springs when higher value crops with longer maturity time periods have exceed their planting window.

Any bird hunter that hunts milo for the first time will typically try to hunt it all the time. It is a case of combined food source and protective cover on the same spot. It holds birds that seek feed and protective cover enough to hold loafing coveys and pheasants. Dod power needs to be on the slower, closer working end. Hard charging dogs will do fine on the quail coveys, less so in this pheasant cover. The difference being the long running linear nature of the crops encourages a hard/long running dog to run parallel to the rows for a good distance.

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Tall, native or warm season grass. All the same names for the commonly found Bib Bluestem, Indian and Switch Grass used in CRP plantings. What many seek when wanting to hunt pheasants only. Protective cover only. No food source. Placing this grass next to a crop field will yield pheasants. Occasionally holds quail. It is the tall grass that most hunters regardless of their dog's prior experience on wild pheasant have the most successful hunts.

A nicely composed picture showing some of the spotty cover that holds pheasants.

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