Kansas Pheasant Hunting Page 2

Good Hunting Is Possible and Bad Pheasant Hunts Guaranteed

Not all will have a good hunt.

Many come with preconceptions of how the hunting should be rather than what is reality.

To have bad Kansas pheasant hunting is guaranteed if believing that every dog and any one hunter has the ability to effectively hunt wild pheasants. Just as every hunter will not have the willingness to walk, observation skills to capture pheasant behavior or shooting ability neither does every dog have good pheasant skills. The difference is not that neither hunter will bag a pheasant or a limit. The difference is between which will have the good hunt regardless of the number of pheasants bagged.

We will have hunters that will see many bag limits in a day and to bag but a few. And, we will have hunters that will not see many birds. The issue is not the Kansas habitat or the presence of pheasants for bad hunting. Bad hunting has other factors that stop those pheasant from reaching the bag. It is those factors the soon to be successful pheasant hunter learns and adjusts.

Mike's Kansas wild pheasant trained second season pup Monty.

Kansas Self Guided Wild Pheasant Hunts

Self guided Kansas wild pheasant hunts only with consequence. The toughest hunting there is for those from non native pheasant states. The worst hunts will be the first hunting trips. The hunting will get better with experience for those with the will power and self determination to learn.

The first hunts are the worst simply due to that hunter never having hunted that Kansas particular land, protective cover or food source habitat before. It is unreasonable for any to think their dog will point or flush in range pheasants in a Kansas cut milo field if never having hunted wild pheasants in a cut milo field before. This is a simple illustration to make the one point is that the better hunting is to come.

Most after having hunted Kansas common crops of cut wheat, milo and corn crop fields, or tall native grasslands, or the brush filled draws will find any one particular hunting dog more suited to one Kansas cover over the other. The extremes of which are only the most refined hunting dogs do well in cut wheat. Most dogs hunt well in native grass. The obstacle to this understanding is the hunter. That is the hunter that believes his dog should be a good pheasant dog under all conditions will have the most dissatisfying Kansas hunting experience.

Bryan's old faithful Griz.

Kansas Pheasant Hunting With and Without Dogs

Kansas wild pheasant self guided hunting does not require hunting dogs or any dog for that matter. We have occasional hunters in the field with non-standard dog breeds as well as father and son no dog teams bagging limits.

Pheasants may be walked up by a solitary hunter. A good pheasant dog will always make any wild bird hunting all the better. We agree. It is also those with dogs that spend the most time hunting.

In terms of the Kansas popular pheasant cover type of the tall grass it is here many of these non-(hunting) dog hunters hunt. The grasslands will produce many birds in the bag, and many more, easily over a hundred pheasants may be seen getting up well out of shotgun range.

A slow hunting, long point standoff dog will produce an easy pheasant limit of points. This is the art of Kansas hunting. One hunter, one dog, four points, four shells fired, for roosters in the bag. That is a great Kansas hunting day. When it happens it is time for pictures and extra treats for the dog.

A fast dog or one with short standoff will generate a lot of wild flushes. This brings us to the second aspect of our self guided pheasant hunts. That is pheasant specific habitat type compared to dog power and upland bird hunting style. This combination makes any one cover/food combination more or less successful hunting than another. Kansas offers much of this variety. It is rare to be hunting only one type of cover in a single day.

How To Have More Great Hunts

What many find is that we will encourage a bit of a tour of our different Kansas pheasant hunting regions. What most find is that one habitat more suited to their hunting style and dog power. It may open opportunity to better hunts through finding that combination that works better.

Call any day or evening to drill down into your specific Kansas pheasant hunting plans. Our telephone number is at the bottom of each page. Just as this entire web site contains no paid advertising neither will you get a sales pitch when inquiring about your concerns.