RE: Kansas Opening Weekend
Just got back from a week in KS.
Opening weekend in the Hanston area we had 107 roosters when we quit after lunch on Sunday. Mon & Tues spot-n-stalked Mulies and a couple whitetails in a 60 mph breeze around Dighton, Wed-Thurs bird hunted with another guy and we limited out both days around Jetmore, Friday I caught up on sleep, Sat hunted with a different guy and got 3 roosters and 8 quail near Goessel.
Highlights included seeing old friends and meeting new ones, getting my year-old lab on wild birds for the first time, a 10 yr old and his grandfather each getting their first birds and the ensuing "tailfeather club" initiation (cutting off their own tailfeathers (shirttails) then throwing their hats in the air and everyone shooting them), seeing a real-live jack-alope (was actually a bobcat with a small tumbleweed around it's head that looked like antlers as it ran), and hunting with a guy that hasn't let loosing the use of both legs keep him out of the upland fields