Late Season KS Bird Hunt

[Phil Lilley]

Headed back out to Greensburg, KS Sunday late to chase some birds around again.  Four of us hunted Monday and Tuesday, private ground north and south of Mullinville.  Conditions were better for the dogs (2 labs) because they had had some rain - last time we were out there it was super dry.  But our labs just aren't bird hunters, they're bird chasers.

With our small numbers, we hunted some smaller spots, mainly quail spots, and got up a dozen coveys in the 2 days, may be more.  Again, I let the young bucks shoot at their heart's content and we ended Monday with one quail, 2 pheasants.  Tuesday was better - we had 2 pheasants and 7 quail.  Duane and I had to show them how to knock 'em down.  We had lots of good laughs over all the shooting and missing.

The quail population wasn't hurt by this hunting season... still lots of birds in every covey.  And we saw a good number of rooster and hen pheasants too so hopefully we'll see a good number next season.

The trip, though, revolved around a business mission... to find and bring back a trailer load of old barn wood to build furniture with here at the resort.  We were in hopes of oak... but there's no oak in Kansas.  Lots of pine.  Pine is ok if it's in good shape.  The barns out west we found were built with a type of tongue-and-groove siding that isn't good for furniture but would be good for covering inside walls.  But we did find a barn in SE Ks that was awesome... very old and in good shape structurally.  We'll go back and raze it at some point.

We're still in search for old barns built with oak lumber.  They're in big demand!  Talked to a guy in Grove, OK that razes barns and sells lumber and rusted metal tin for big bucks to ppl out west.  He said he gets $1.75/lin. foot for the tin roofing... crazy.

[Quillback]

Glad to hear the birds are doing well, I hope to be out chasing them next season.  Seems like bird numbers are dependent on getting the right amount of rain.

[Ketchup]

Phil, I'm doing a 2nd floor build on a house west of Walnut Grove. In that area there are 2 barns, one still somewhat standing, the other on the ground, 2 separate properties. The one on the ground looks like most of the wood has been taken, but lots of tin that looks to be in good shape "I took a picture on my way home today" and the standing one has a decent amount of wood. I usually see those guys out feeding cattle a few times a week. If this isn't to far "near Stockton Lake" I will ask them for the taking.  

[Phil Lilley]

2 hours ago, Ketchup said:

Phil, I'm doing a 2nd floor build on a house west of Walnut Grove. In that area there are 2 barns, one still somewhat standing, the other on the ground, 2 separate properties. The one on the ground looks like most of the wood has been taken, but lots of tin that looks to be in good shape "I took a picture on my way home today" and the standing one has a decent amount of wood. I usually see those guys out feeding cattle a few times a week. If this isn't to far "near Stockton Lake" I will ask them for the taking.  

Super, thanks!  We're headed to SE KS next week for a couple of days to start the barn there.

@duckydoty

[Ketchup]

Phil, i caught the guy that leases the land where the one barn is down and he said the owners family have been picking thru it and will continue. Havent seen the other guy all week. Will continue to keep my eyes open.