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Pheasant hunting as an individual or with a close companion be he youth in training or a seasoned friend and doing so behind a bird dog or two brings a serene sense of tranquility of being outside, in the field and watch an animal, the dog, work his heart out for the hunter. Without the dog this hunter probably would not hunt. And, because of the dog, and the special connection that exists with the dog, these do it yourself hunters hunt their dogs every chance they have and in doing so typically wear out a pair of boots and pants or two each season.

These individual and small group pheasant hunters ambling along behind the dogs require little coordination unlike the pheasant drive hunt with its convoy of vehicles, various undisciplined dogs and those that may be a just a bit too quick to shoot piling out to stomp the fields while closing in on those on stand. The dissimilarity is as dramatic as the words make it appear. The small group pheasant hunter will spend twice as long and walk much further to cover the same size field as the pheasant drive hunt. Moreover, the small group bird dog pheasant hunter will be far more efficient at it moving in concert with the wind, habitat conditions and in response to the dog with its powerful nose at finding birds hidden deep in the cover. The drive pheasant hunter must rely on the luck of stepping on the birds to get them to fly for shot.

Another rooster pheasant showing off for us and the lady pheasants unseen in the cover. To get a picture of a crowing pheasant requires a good bit of field time. And this one could not have been more cooperative crowing for us in a short grass field just greening up with the warming spring temperatures.

The Hunt Itself Not The Bird - A Big Difference

The individual bird dog pheasant hunter seeks to enjoy the day in the field for his dog not the birds. The birds are a means, the end is the activity itself. One particularly tough running bird causing the dog to relocate and point 4 to 6 times with the hunter in tow a quarter mile down a tall prairie grass field brings a sweat and satisfaction the drive hunter would never understand. That one tough rooster pheasant will bring a quiet smile to the hunter’s face just as a quick limit of several roosters pointed or flushed by his dog in quick order, single shots fired and camera retrieve from pocket in time to catch the brightly colored pheasant bird-in-mouth dog on retrieve. that is a day that will make the memories and bring that hunter back tot he field for years to come.

After many such picture taking attempts to capture a well composed picture of the dog with brightly colored pheasant on retrieve one will be especially lucky to have captured that one with all the right elements and that picture will go on the wall. A single dog with a single rooster, retrieving to its pheasant hunting partner. That is the picture that will bring a smile to the pheasant hunter’s face 10 years from when it was taken and long after the pheasant drive hunt dead bird stack picture has been regulated to the storage box.

Prime pheasant habitat is the protective cover provided by tall prairie grass with the most acres of which are in Kansas. This is the type of cover that holds more birds than any other and concentrates them in the smallest area than any other type of cover. This cover is also pheasant specific and acts as a limiting factor against quail for example. It is also a very good example of Pheasants Forever approach to developing large fields of cover as the means for making more birds. Hunters will find the larger the field the more birds to be found.

We offer an in-depth review of tall grass pheasant hunting and in specific Kansas pheasant hunting as an attempt to take out some of the mystery about our pheasant hunts and a means by which more hunters can make a better do it yourself hunt rather than drive by what may look uninviting.

MAHA Approach For The Bird Dog Hunter

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For those that seek our do it yourself hunt approach we offer the link below will gain ever increasingly greater detail about what we offer. If all the links on this website have already be reviewed then perhaps it is time to call us directly to discuss and application for membership. We rarely disappoint any one hunter that has his own bird dogs seeking a do it yourself hunt on wild birds.

Member's Brittany on point. It is through such generosity of our members sending in their pictures and hunt feedback this website is as good as it is.

 

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