Kansas self guided quail hunting lease land

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For Bobwhite Quail only hunts Kansas offers its SE region well outside of the Kansas pheasant population range and allowing for each point to be quail only.

In several areas of this website we cover quail dog power and how we cringe when a non-resident calls and says his interest is hunting wild Bobwhite Quail and he is traveling from a region of the country where the only quail his dog has pointed has been released quail, on open fields and under the best of weather. We will have a longer conversation with this hunter and explain what he may anticipate Kansas quail hunting with us.

In short what may be anticipated will be long runs of linear Kansas edge habitat where being on the up wind side is the wrong answer. Quartering dogs less efficient than habitat seeking long running dogs and shooting through trees more common than all else.

The best feedback we gain from Kansas hunters traveling in from states without wild Bobwhite Quail populations is the amount of bird action, dog work, shots fired, few quail bagged and what a great time it was. That type of quail hunter we will always want to work with.

While we will not repeat here the requirements and definitions for willingness to walk, wild quail shooting ability and quail dog power all should trust when they talk to us we will provide the information they need to develop decision criteria of if or where to quail hunt to ensure they have as good of a hunt as possible.

When calling about our wild bobwhite hunting some hunters may find us encouraging they start their Kansas hunt within our pheasant predominate regions and work toward quail hunting during the latter part of their trip.

That trust and confidence in us is drawn from that we are a business not a hunting club and as a business we seek return customers. A good upland bird hunt of pheasant and or Bobwhite Quail will always bring hunters back for years of quail hunts to come.

This page is just the start of our quail hunting in Kansas and elsewhere. Please do continue reading about our Kansas quail hunting and call us with questions at anytime. We seek all to have as good of a quail hunt as possible.

Quail flushing pictured during a late summer Kansas land run.

Much to talk about in this quail flush picture. The key elements, milo heads seen just above the brush, grass draw, plumb thicket that all equal some of the best Kansas Bobwhite Quail habitat to be found.

Milo is by far the favorite and predominate Kansas quail food. This can be tested by anyone with pen raised quail and place in that pen a selection of foods. The milo will be consumed before all others.

The next is the prairie grass that grows in these draws. It is of a quality that remains standing thought the winter providing low to the ground protective cover. It also serves very well as nesting cover. Two key aspects of grass cover that are required for perpetuation of a covey.

The last element is the plumb thicket, in this case the leafless tree looking bush. Anyone that has ever hunted central mid-west Bobwhite Quail knows to ensure their dogs cover every plumb thicket encountered. The plum provides year round overhead protective cover and the ground level is completely open allowing for very easy Bobwhite Quail foot movement for the entire covey to escape. And, that escape is a source of hunter frustration.

Plumb thickets mean the covey will flush to the far side leaving the solitary quail hunter frequently without sight of and only hearing the covey flushing out. Paired hunters will find much action.

The final element of the Kansas draw is the quail hunter will soon learn to flush the covey up and down the draw rather than out of it for much singles action. It is this habitat that may allow for 20 to 40 minutes of fast dog work from the covey flush to the the last single quail point.

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