Home Forums Birds & Dogs Upland Game Just back from Kansas for Lesser Prairie Chikens...

It was a pretty good trip. Lots of driving (~2500 miles total), but I got to shoot a quite a few birds and hit a few. We were hunting about a 40 mile radius around Dodge City, Kansas. About the only place we could find that allows lesser hunting that has public access.

Though I am by far not a good shot I did shoot better this trip than in South Dakota back in November. Only sluicing was of rabbits... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> The talley for Mark and I for the full five days of hunting is 14 pheasants, 7 lesser prairie chickens, 4 bobwhite quail, 2 cottontails and 2 jackrabbits. I will say that lesser's are quite the challenge. They like to flush WAY out, like 60-100yds out and then fly for a couple of miles before landing again. However, we did catch a few stragglers after jumping the larger coveys and caught a few by sitting over places we'd glassed that they like to fly over when flushed from certain areas. All in all it was a blast! Here's some pictures:

My first lesser prairie chicken, which I made a 50yd passing shot on (unlucky bird <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />):


Mark's first lesser, which completes his 'slam' of all the grouse species in the Lower 48. He's pictured with a local, Craig Kenobe who put us on the birds and got us permission to hunt on some farms:


My first pheasant of the trip. It was COLD that day:


First day's take:


Day 2:


Day 4:


Here's a better picture of a lesser, they are pretty birds.
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Sounds like you had a great trip!! Congrads!! Gotta love the Weimer.

Steve

Weimer's not mine, but borrowed for a friend. Though a bit of handful, he's only abit over 1yr old so we were trying to help him out by getting him on birds. By day 4 he was doing good and had two rock solid points. Don't know why he does it, but when the bird flushes right in from of him he lays down...kinda cool though.

Thanks for the compliments.