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I travel to the middle of Kansas and find plenty of birds on public property. It is about 3-4 hours east of many of CO's pheasant areas but worth the extra drive time. I also did western NE last year and had great fun. New pup seems to find quail easier than pheasant but the human dogs put up enough pheasant. Still 10 hours of drive time shorter than SD