Open in the morning , hopefully have some good news for you fellas tomorrow evening. Hunting the Hays area.

I'm flying out Monday for a week in NE Kansas chasing ringnecks.  Annual trip with my best bird hunting bud.  We've been hitting the same farms for 18 years; private land.

ETA, Clay/Washington Counties.

Well it was a good hunt 16 birds total. Considering that the area has been in drought for about a decade it was a good haul. Took my son for the first time, he had a great time even if he only walked and couldn't shoot or carry a gun.
Seems like the bird population is up.
Years to come should be even better but good ground to hunt is getting harder to come by due to changing farming practice. No till don't leave much cover for the birds.
 I didn't even get to fire my shotgun this trip but it was a great success. Good fun and great folks to hunt with.

They say there are lots of quail and pheasant this year where I hunt up in Northern Missouri.  We hunt every year between Christmas and New Years.

I miss bird hunting.

Only pheasants in western Colorado are pen raised and released for your hunt. I'll pass thank you very much.

Grew up in southwest Nebraska and spent every moment I could in the fields.

Depending on where you live on the western slope, you're not too far from good...if not great bird hunting. UT has plenty of Chukar, and grouse (ruffs/blues). Colorado has quail, grouse (blues, mountain sharpies, sage), ptarmigan, and a few chukar too.

I shot a grouse once, up on top of the Roan Cliffs outside Rifle.

Shot it in the neck with my .22 pistol. It hunkered down behind a log just watching me while it's blood was spraying out like a geyser. Never tried to run or anything. No sport in that. It was the last time I went bird hunting here. That was around 20 years ago.

Give me pheasant and quail please.

Interesting. If you hunt with a dog and shoot them on the wing blues are pretty sporting. Ground swatting birds, no matter the species isn't very "sporting".

Like seen here (not my vid):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3eYKrqU6iI

Shame I missed this thread.  Would love to take my boys out hunting.  we struck out completely on dove (aside from the billions in my neighborhood shot with a pellet gun.

any decent public areas near KC?