KS Doves

9/6/12 -  I headed over to Topeka, Kansas to get the fall 2012 hunting season started last week. Nick Bales and I planned to hunt doves around the T-town area for a few days to warm up for the upcoming MN duck/goose hunt in early October.

Nick had done okay throughout the week and was seeing more bird movement in the evenings. This was my first official dove hunt, so I was pretty excited to give it a shake. We setup looking over a cut sunflower field and the action started almost immediately. I had two doves work in and dropped a double on my first two shots...Nick was impressed! The action on the first evening was steady and we ended up with 7 doves total. Nick made one of the more impressive shots I've seen, when he dropped a bird at +60yrds; it made my 50 yarder look easy.

The action the next morning was pretty slow, but that might have had more to do with Nick's birthday celebration the previous night. We managed to knock down four more birds over a couple hours and then headed to one of Nick's deer properties to set up a youth blind.

It was fun shooting and I'm planning to do a lot more of it in the coming years, thanks again Nick!

March Mushroom Madness

3/31/12 - With the unseasonably warm weather we've been having this spring the shrooms have been popping early. My good friend Nick Bales found around 200 shrooms in the middle of last week, so Saturday morning I left KC around 6:30am headed to Toto-land in search of some fungi. Landon, Todd, Nick, and I got to Nick's first honey hole around 9am and by 9:10am I'd found the first shrooms of the day and it only got better from there. The little buggers were thick and we only had to move 10-20yrds to find another good group of them. We'd planned to hit a couple of different spots, but when the getting is this good...there was no reason to go elsewhere. By noon we were pretty hot, thirsty and our bags were overflowing with 276 shrooms, so we shut it down for the day. I'm planning to make it back out there this week for a night and then hit up some of my Callaway Co. spots this weekend...thanks again Nick! My belly thanks you!