Killing animals

[star seed 7]

My dad confided in me that he doesn't really like killing animals anymore and thinks he's going to switch to taking animal pictures instead

[ben ji]

My dad confided in me that he doesn't really like killing animals anymore and thinks he's going to switch to taking animal pictures instead

His bird dogs are going to be super confused the first time they flush a pheasant and hear a camera click instead of a shotgun.

[star seed 7]

He still plans on genociding fish though

[Katpappy]

He still plans on genociding fish though

Once you get murder in your blood it's hard to flush it out of your system.

[ben ji]

Stopped at the gas station off exit 342 on the way back from the cat ranch last weekend and just had to drop $13.99 on this beaut of a Tshirt.

[schreds21]

Jesus.  You're Western Kansas hillbilly indoctrination is complete.

[Pete]

Stopped at the gas station off exit 342 on the way back from the cat ranch last weekend and just had to drop $13.99 on this beaut of a Tshirt.

I am very jealous

[ben ji]

Got skunked all of last year due to the drought and only killed one bird in the 3 times I went out to the cat ranch in Nov/Dec this year.

Went out one last time about a week ago for the end of the season and the stars aligned. Went to my WIHA honey hole about 3 miles away from the cat ranch, it's a weedy draw in the middle of crop fields about half a mile long.

Flushed probably 25 birds walking up originally but the 3 I got were all due to Milo. We were walking into the wind along the draw and then she would get a scent and jump in a 4ft jumble of weeds and a solitary rooster came out each time...

Went back to the same spot the next day and didn't see a single bird

10/10 would recommend

[ben ji]

High plains sunset pic to finish it off

[steve dave]

So Kansas


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[Pete]

Got skunked all of last year due to the drought and only killed one bird in the 3 times I went out to the cat ranch in Nov/Dec this year.

Went out one last time about a week ago for the end of the season and the stars aligned. Went to my WIHA honey hole about 3 miles away from the cat ranch, it's a weedy draw in the middle of crop fields about half a mile long.

Flushed probably 25 birds walking up originally but the 3 I got were all due to Milo. We were walking into the wind along the draw and then she would get a scent and jump in a 4ft jumble of weeds and a solitary rooster came out each time...

Went back to the same spot the next day and didn't see a single bird

10/10 would recommend

That’s fantastic.

[tdaver]

Penny has been checking this pool all winter waiting for the ducks to return.  They were back on Friday!!  No killing but plenty of chasing.

[wetwillie]

Can't tell from the photo, that thing have a green head?

[tdaver]

Yeah. There was a pair hanging out. I assume mallards, but I don’t know anything about ducks.

[ben ji]

Anyone getting all revv'd up to go kill some birds this opening weekend? I'm heading west in a couple of hours, looks like its actually raining pretty hard out west which could put some of my honey holes out of commission depending on the road situation.

[wetwillie]

Anyone getting all revv'd up to go kill some birds this opening weekend? I'm heading west in a couple of hours, looks like its actually raining pretty hard out west which could put some of my honey holes out of commission depending on the road situation.

I'm on em tomorrow around Great Bend. Duck hunted the bottoms this morning and flushed a few pheasants out on the walk in.

[ben ji]

Anyone getting all revv'd up to go kill some birds this opening weekend? I'm heading west in a couple of hours, looks like its actually raining pretty hard out west which could put some of my honey holes out of commission depending on the road situation.

I'm on em tomorrow around Great Bend. Duck hunted the bottoms this morning and flushed a few pheasants out on the walk in.

best of luck pew pew'n tomorrow!

[yoga-like_abana]

Before I set up my deer stand, I saw quite a few deer every morning. Since my stand has been up those assholes have been MIA

[ben ji]

Before I set up my deer stand, I saw quite a few deer every morning. Since my stand has been up those assholes have been MIA

I have never hunted deer but bump tons of them when I'm hunting pheasants in tall weedy areas. Kind of gets me thinking I should just get some buck shot and a tag just in case I see some but I know as soon as I do that I won't see any.

[waks]

I know everyone thinks deer meat is disgusting so if you kill any deer and don't want any of the meat I will begrudgingly take it off your hands Yoga and Benji!

[ben ji]

Had a cup of coffee this morning then outside to load the shotgun in my vehicle. When I was loading the gun I heard a bunch of cackles in the windbreak...Sweet! There are rarely birds in the windbreak but I guess the storm brought them in for shelter....

I casually walk over past the woodpile and into the windbreak when all hell breaks loose. Pheasants are flying out of the top of the trees, they are busting up from the ground, running across the road...Just complete pandemonium. There were maybe 20-30 birds and do you want to know how many of those I killed?

ZERO. Just complete panic, do I shoot that one, wait there's one, is that one too far away now, is the tree in my way, hell I'll just start blasting.

[ben ji]

I did blast 2 of em later in the day tho 

[waks]

No deer though?

[ben ji]

No deer though?

I bumped this one from the CRP and it ran into the middle of the pasture and just mean mugged me for about 10 minutes not moving. They knew I only had some bird shot and it wanted to assert it's dominance.

[wetwillie]

Wild bird numbers near Great Bend were was good as I've seen in about 5 years.  Ran into a metric buttload of quail.