Any Chicken Hunters Near Cassody?

6e · #1 09/26/06, 09:26 PM

DH is wanting to know if there are any prarie chicken hunters that can either tell us some good public walk in hunting for them or if he could tag along for a hunt?
Please PM or post here if you wish.
Thanks

bgak47 · #2 09/27/06, 10:05 AM

I've never hunted Prarie Chickens, & I'm not even sure about their status as Game animals in OK.

bgak47 · #3 09/29/06, 03:28 PM

Prarie Chickens don't seem to be on the list of legal game for OK. Aren't they protected? Endangered? I believe that I read that they are not game.

6e · #4 09/30/06, 06:40 AM

In Kansas they are a game bird. Last year the season started Nov. 1. Limit is 2 birds.

6e · #5 09/30/06, 06:44 AM

Cassody is the Prarie Chicken capital around here. Every year they have a huge get together to go Prarie Chicken hunting, but you have to know someone to get in on it. So, DH was wanting to know if there was someone up near there that hunts Chicken that he can tag along with.
DH is an excellent hunter, excellent shot and very ethical and well mannered. (in other words you don't have to worry about him stealing shots or shooting you or shooting non-target birds.)

HeatherDriskill · #6 10/04/06, 03:43 PM

I'm pretty sure they're endangered here. I haven't ever seen one in real life. I think there are still a few down around the Lawton area.

6e · #7 10/04/06, 05:24 PM

Then you guys need to come up to Kansas. They're fairly thick right through in this strip that stretches from Wichita on east through the flint hills. Bout as big as a pheasant, but 10 times faster.

HeatherDriskill · #8 10/05/06, 12:38 PM

We need to transplant some of yall's down here!

bob clark · #9 10/06/06, 10:36 AM

when i was in 4th grade my great uncle found a nest mowing hay . the nest was destroyed but some of the eggs were fine. they took the eggs to a neighbor that had setting hens. they hatched fine but went feral fairly quick

there hadent been PC here for several years before that ,or so we thought and we havent seen any sence . there are a few in western Iowa. I would love to get some started here ,but we dont have enough land in short grass for them. most of our land is timber, brush or switch grass which is quite tall

Kstornado11 · #10 10/07/06, 07:07 AM

Oh wow... I am in eastern Kansas, & have never seen any up here... of course I probably wouldn't recognize them if I saw them...

6e · #11 10/07/06, 09:55 AM

We were told by another rancher that 3 miles west of us there's a lot of them, but most of them are concentrated around Cassody, N. of ElDorado lake. As far as we know, everyone still gathers there on opening morning. The limit is 2.
I've seen just a few. They look like brown pheasants, but maybe a little shorter and stalkier. Short tails and a shorter, thicker neck. I think they like the flint hills with all the tall prairie grass.