Lots of quail, but where are the roosters?
I am hunting around the milford lake area north central Kansas and I know that our pheasant numbers are supposed to be down due to last year's snow and the summer's hail storms. So far I have seen only about 3 roosters in 5 days of upland hunting and I've probably seen another half dozen while deer hunting; which is about what I expected. What puzzles me is how so many quail survived. Even when I'm by myself, without dogs, I manage to scare up a few large coveys--sometimes more than 15 birds at a time. How did these smaller birds survive so much better than the supposedly rugged pheasant?
I hear that pheasant populations up north of Milford and Tuttle Creek reservoirs are supposed to be better. Has anyone hunting this area of Kansas had any luck closer to Nebraska?
~~Brasky