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Maybe I missed the boat. I used to raise millet and those things were fish in barrel.

There would be a pile of carcasses at the edge of the field.
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Not a lot of birds of any kind in north east Oklahoma. Not a lot of farms in my area either mostly ranches.
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There aren't that many birds of any kind in Western Kansas either. Fuck, there aren't even trees. But those motherfuckers love Millet (birdseed)
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No Roosters? I've decided to let them live but I'm always curious.
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There are getting to be some. The drought was HARD on those bastards.

Then the swift Fox moved in. Theyre pretty hard on them too.

But there are some around.
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Foxes are a predator no doubt. I was told that Coyotes were hard on the Quail. Then I was talking with a Conservation Agent here in Missouri and they were doing a study on Coytes and their impact on the Quail population. What they did was look at was feathers in Coyote "scat". They found a minimal of feathers in the Coyote scat. So in summation the Coyotes were not eating the Quail enough to effect their numbers. One could correlate to Foxes but it might not be true. We would have to dig through the Fox scat to see.

That's some pretty deep scat!
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I need to find some pheasant hunting in Kansas or Missouri.
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Good luck in KS. I was way out west this past week and it’s dry as a bone and has been for most of a few years now.

The only thing I saw was in south central KS, directly south of Wichita and almost to the OK line, a small covey of quail with a bunch of chicks crossing the road. We didn’t go out west last season, or the season before. And the season before that when the old man and I went we didn’t see shit for pheasant, though we did run into a few quail.

I’m sure there are pockets out there where you can find birds, but personally I’d just as soon not further decimate their numbers.
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I do have a cousin who has 80 acres and isn’t the hunting type. Somewhere near Salina. Maybe I’ll check with him.
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I got 2 snipes today. :-)
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If he isn’t allowing anyone else to hunt it that would definitely be worth trying.
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I’ll have to ask. I know he’s not a hunter. He had a traumatic experience as a teen where he accidentally killed a woman by pulling out in front of her. Hasn’t been 100% since. But he’s utterly ate up with farming/ranching stuff. He cares about little else.
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I did some upland brood surveys in south central KS. Pheasant numbers were better than last year (low bar) with broods between 3 and 9 chicks. Saw no turkeys, adult or otherwise. Saw one healthy covey of quail.

The last 5 years of drought, hailstorms, and low furbearer price have taken its toll.
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We used to hunt milo fields in SWMO and it was non-stop action. I'm not a big fan of dove meat, but it was food and a lot of fun.
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Any birds that are capable of flight but choose to ground nest get little sympathy from me in their choices of self-preservation techniques. Also, I believe the protection laws against hunting almost all birds of prey doesn't help out the pheasant population.

Between all the above and hunters along with getting run over by a tractor they have a lot going against them.
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