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That part of the state generally has decent bird populations. I am south central KS and birds were low this year. I heard good numbers were in the NW counties this year.

Thank you everyone for the time spent replying to my post. Greg, this is exactly the information I was looking for. Thank you. I live in central KS and hunt pheasants and quail. Quail numbers have been much better than quail the past few years, but I will always chase pheasants. I will not send this...

I don’t have any experience with field trials or hunt tests and my exposure is limited to attending one NSTRA event as a spectator about 20 years ago. When I try and research hunt tests, field trials and pedigree titles, almost all the information is written by people in the know and this makes it d...

Thanks for the replies so far. I am sure there is a ton of information on how to work pigeons and I will search further, but I guess I don’t really see how you work pigeons without a launcher. If you dizzy them, won’t the dog be able to catch them? If you don’t dizzy them, won’t the bird just fly aw...

I am picking up our new Brittany pup next week and I am thinking about what I want to do with birds for training. It has been a number of years since my last bird dog and our living situation has changed since then as well. We live on 160 acres with approximately 60 being pasture. We have at least o...