Is there anyone on here that can tell my what the birds in Kansas are currently doing? I will be bowhuntin em around Arkansas city come Monday and just lookin for a little info on how they are acting.
Still in their winter groups. Snow predicted on the first.
I will be there with both of my kids. It would be pretty neat to kill a Spring bird in the snow. It is their Spring break week. It is supposed to warm up nicely Tuesday and Wednesday.
I suspect they haven't broken up really good yet. What a difference a year makes. Last year, everything was ahead of schedule and this year it seems everything is behind.
yeah last year we had a great year early
Yeah...I went out there last year for the first week of May, and the wheat was already too high in a lot of farms to hunt.
Last year, they turned on early, this year they are behind schedule in KS.
I'm heading out there for opening weekend. Hopefully things will get going in the next 2 weeks.
I live around KC and they are still in big groups so it going to,be at least a few more weeks for them to get turned on real good. What part of Kansas are y'all going to?
I'm going to be hunting in the Newton/Whitewater area.
I usually hunt north central around the Nebraska border...Washington, Republic, Jewell counties and that area. Just printed off my tags yesterday. I will probably wait until May to go, though.
ill be around arkansas city
I will prolly make a trip out to North central myself later in the season. I'm headed out to do some scouting on Sunday so I'll post some pics and ifo if I get any. :icon_thumright:
Quote from: AUDoubleBeard on March 29, 2013, 03:57:08 PM
I will prolly make a trip out to North central myself later in the season. I'm headed out to do some scouting on Sunday so I'll post some pics and ifo if I get any. :icon_thumright:
Please do! Will be in the same are in a couple weeks! Thanks!
Lets hope the turkey around here show up better then those Jayhawks! :TooFunny:
Well I went out this morning and only heard one gobble. What I found was good though. Had a nice bird at about thirty yards. He was with 8 other toms. I did see numerous fields with birds and got a couple of cool pictures I will post up this afternoon.
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The camera auto focused on the trees, but the bird was only about 30 yards from us.
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Nice pics! Gets the blood pumping!
I'll be watching the weather like a hawk for the next week; night now next wek isn't looking great for the opener :'(
I will be there either way! Buddy went this morning and birds gobbled good on roost and shut up once they hit the ground.
Could've put up a hotdog stand on the roads running through the public here locally. Never seen this many guys for bow season.
Heading to Lincoln County the end of April so hopefully they turn it on!
I'm leaving next thursday and it cant get here fast enough after seeing those pictures.
I talked with dlewis82nd and he tagged out this morning with a jake and a gobbler. It is cold, windy, and raining but he got it done. I'll be headed there Friday, so hopefully I will be able to get in on the action.
I gotta wait a month to go! :(
Tagged one Monday in south central Kansas...cold and windy...couldn't get one to gobble but he strutted a lot and made it within 35 yards of my grandsons 20 gauge...got to stand on his neck! Snowed in SC Kansas today...cool and windy in north central and northeast.
Called this one in for my daughter Monday morning. Only heard two gobblers and this one came in by himself. Now it's little brothers turn for the Missouri youth hunt this weekend. We were hunting near Ottawa.
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Hard to imagine worse weather than what is predicted for Wed & Thurs....... Unreal how much difference a year makes.
it looks like it will warm up during the weekend. Might be tough hunting.
I'm heading to Kansas Thursday for a 6 day hunt. Hope the weather keeps respectable. Kind of eratic right now.
I'll be down there. Heading down tomorrow afternoon. Looks like it'll be wet and cool the first couple of days. My uncle said that as of last week, the birds were still grouped up.
I was scouting around KC last weekend. Heard a big group of gobblers roosting together. Then I saw two hens walking alone. After that saw a lone gobbler strolling across the field within 20 yards of me. Then yesterday I saw a group of 6 hens with a strutting gobbler in a field by my church.