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I am seeing a lot of Chickens in my back road travels this year. It occurred to me, that while I have killed quite a few of them, I have never actually set out to hunt them. So? Other than driving around watching for a flock, how do you HUNT the durn things? Any suggestions?
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I find most Chickens hunting hill tops with native grass with a close ranging pointing dog the first part of the season before the family groups split up. After the first freeze when the big flocks have formed pass shooting or hunting the native grass and plum thickets cover near feeding fields will get you some shooting in the latter part of the season.
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"Prairie Chicken Shooting In Kansas", Theodore R. Davis in Harper's Weekly Dec. 21, 1867  "Prairie Chicken Shooting in Kansas" from American Game-bird Shooting by George Bird Grinnell, 1910  In east-central KS, where there are some trees  it is common to find a sentinel bird up in the branches near a feeding flock; good luck on getting a shot 
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Some years ago, in the Nebraska Sand Hills, we were told by a farmer/rancher to come by a half hour before sundown, stand in the corn , and the birds will come by. He was very right. The flocks came to us, with both prairie chicken and sharptails flying in the same flocks.
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Some years ago, in the Nebraska Sand Hills, we were told by a farmer/rancher to come by a half hour before sundown, stand in the corn , and the birds will come by. He was very right. The flocks came to us, with both prairie chicken and sharptails flying in the same flocks. That about the only place(Sand Hills) I ever shot them. And then they were incidental to the Pheasants we were primarily after. Jim
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Some years ago, in the Nebraska Sand Hills, we were told by a farmer/rancher to come by a half hour before sundown, stand in the corn , and the birds will come by. He was very right. The flocks came to us, with both prairie chicken and sharptails flying in the same flocks. That's exactly the way I've shot sharp-tails in Saskatchewan a few times...Geo Well come to think of it it was wheat or barley instead of corn and the birds were flying in from a community pasture.
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Some years ago, in the Nebraska Sand Hills, we were told by a farmer/rancher to come by a half hour before sundown, stand in the corn , and the birds will come by. He was very right. The flocks came to us, with both prairie chicken and sharptails flying in the same flocks. They same way I used to hunt them in Oklahoma. Large flocks weren't uncommon and shooting was fast and furious. Prairie Chickens are now protected in Oklahoma.
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Early season Prairie Chicken is my favorite season. I spend 2 1/2 weeks every year on chickens alone
It is a great tune up for the dog, i hunt the first few hours in the morning and later the last hours before sundown too.
Last edited by old colonel; 10/31/16 04:37 PM.
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Be careful one don't fly up yer kilts...
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They seem to follow very specific flight paths, going out to feed before sunset and then heading back to roost. I hunted with a KS guide who'd been watching a flock. He put me in a ditch, one power pole off from where they flew out to feed. I moved to that power pole and shot one when they headed back to roost.
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