Canvasback, I envy your being there. Long, well, many dogs ago, we hunted around Arthur. So fun for us, but the cacti were so bad, we had to put the dogs up. Found a rancher who had "fighting chickens" and we took some home. No one ever had a real fighting chicken event where we were in Iowa, but it was fun to think about. Mostly, in the Sand Hills, we hunted long and hard, but really should have saved our energy and just hid in the standing corn at dusk when the sharptails and prairie chickens came it in the same groups. Lots of fun, Daryl