DIY Hunts that is allKansas upland bird hunting gives the do it yourself upland bird hunter that has his own bird dogs more Kansas private hunting lease land for wild quail and pheasant than any other upland bird hunting opportunity we have yet discovered. A bold statement we can back up. Two key elements allows us to advertise the wild pheasant and quail hunts we have to offer. The first is that we are bird hunters ourselves and second we are running a business that seeks returning hunters for seasons to come. This is opposed to a hunting club or preserve where clients are secured by amenities as a lodge, special meals and atmosphere. All we offer is private land to hunt, a local lodging listing and our personal recommendations to get the hunter where he needs to park his truck, step out and hunt. How it worksWe first talk by telephone to ensure the applicant knows clearly what it is we offer and we check to see if we can work together. The discussion will be based on the rules for the primary and secondary hunt discipline of the applicant. If we agree we can work together then it is a matter of payment by check or credit card, sending in the signed release of liability form and we respond with the identification card that will serve as hunt with written permission requirement, vehicle marker and the welcome letter composed of two key parts. The first is the member's only telephone number to make reservations to hunt and the second is the pass word protected website instructions to access the current hunting lease maps. Once the new member has the maps in his hands it is a lot easier to talk about where to go for what he is after. The new member will be able to look at the same map as we are when we talk on the telephone making plans for his first upland bird hunting trip. | Most bird hunting websites show happy hunters with lots of birds presented well before dark. We too show those pictures throughout the website and more. Our service may be private upland bird hunting land access, our product is the right upland bird habitat in the right region of Kansas that is capable of reproduction of wild pheasant and quail. These pictures are each just a snap shot of what that habitat is. 
A lot to talk about in this picture. The crop is wheat and typical of the dryer areas of the Kansas' western upland bird hunting. The far ground shows a collection of sand hills with more hidden behind. The sand hills are covered with short plum and grass. The brushed-in fence line to the right continues into a small draw of trees and scrub. This is quail country with some pheasant mixed in. This one spot will be at the shortest a two hour walk with one hunter and two dogs, more likely a three hour hunt for most. 
Tall prairie grass looks deceptive in this panoramic picture. The grass averages 5 feet in height with thin areas at 3 or less feet and in the lower drainages growing up to 7 feet. Prime pheasant cover throughout and only incidental quail coveys to be found along its edges. This one piece of a larger lease extends out beyond the far ground cedar windbreak as well as the brush and tree hillside where the better quail habitat runs along the boundary of the neighbors crop field. This is one of those spots where an extra dog water bottle and a drink for the hunter should be carried as to walk it all at one time would be a three hour hunt. A larger piece like this most would park and hunt a portion of it, reload their truck, drive to the far side unload and hunt that portion. 
A close up of some of eastern Kansas's quail habitat. A long running creek bottom through a bean field found more in central and eastern Kansas where the rainfall is greater. The grass strip is part of the renewed interest in the buffer strip program and certainly makes our upland bird hunting better. This terrain is more easily traversed by the hunter compared to the pictures above, edge running dogs can cover a lot of ground quick and pheasants are few if any. The trees will cause for about half of the quail misses where the open ground in the pictures above offer no such excuse. Kansas has other terrain such as the brush filled draw where a mix of quail and pheasants is expected to be found. And, Kansas offers the no-till wheat field that after harvest is let to weeds for next spring's rotation to other than wheat. The upland bird hunter will find quail along its edges and pheasants deeper into the weeds. Overall, Kansas upland bird hunting offers the most habitat variety to be experienced on one trip. |
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