Newbie headed to Kansas for the first time.

[cddogfan1]

I live in Central Georgia. Always been a avid deer, turkey, duck and small game hunter. Just getting into upland hunting and traveling to do so. This will be my first season traveling with a trip planned in late December , early January for Kansas. Taking my GWP pup and my 15 year old son. Had this same trip planed last year but lost my GWP to the mail carrier so I had to cancel and start all over with a new dog. Will be staying in the Dodge City area and hunting west of there. I have 3000 acre day leased for 3 days and plan to hit some walk in area also if needed. I am a newbie to the area and upland hunting in general came here to search for information and would greatly appreciate any advice someone was willing to give. From where to eat, anny side trips worth a detour, game signs to look for just whatever. If anybody is free on Dec 3 to Jan 1 and is interested in showing a newbie the ropes or if a newbie also and want to share in the learning curve with me shoot me a PM and we can discuss.

Thanks

Chris

 

[dtrkyman]

Never hunted the area but drive through in that general section often, lot of birds along the highway earlier in the year. Thick cover close to AG. fields should be the ticket, tons of options for food in Dodge City though I have never spent any time there, just roll through!

Lot's of hunters at the small town motels for sure.

 

[yfarm]

I hunt an hour east of there. Inquireabout the habitat on the land you leased. 3k acres is a huge amount of land to hunt by walking. Where I hunt the birds hang around crp, may wander onto roads,hayfields and pastures but crp is where most of the birds are. Cornfields will be chopped without any cover. Trees and brushy fencelines tend to sparse out there. Have driven around looking for feeding migratory waterfowl and a lot of the land is pretty bleak from a pheasants perspective.

 

[cddogfan1]

I have been looking at it on Onx. It's a working farm and has CRP. One track has a creek running through it. 2 tracks actually border some walk in that looks like CRP.

 

[dtrkyman]

Cover will be king no doubt.