Farmer17
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Left OKC Friday at noon for Great Bend Kansas, an old friend from college has a half section next to a wildlife refuge and invited me and a buddy up for some bird hunting. We went to check in at the hotel and they ask "do you need a room for dogs?" we said no we didn't bring any. The hotel lobby was full of people with bird dogs and carrying gun cases, and I was getting pretty excited by this time. There was about 18 hunters in our group and we met early the next morning at an elementary school that was serving breakfast for the hunters. Delicious pancakes, bacon, fried eggs, scrambled eggs, OJ, milk and lotsa coffee all free, but there was a donation jar where everyone pitched in. We then head out and start walking the fields in a straight line with blockers at the end, and about every 15 or 20 minutes something would flush and then we would realize it was just a damn deer! Saw a lot of bucks and a whole lot of does, thousand of ducks and geese, but few pheasants or quail. We came home after dark and I was so tired from all that walking through brush I could have slept right there on a picket fence, however our big group went out to dinner at a local diner and we had a lot of laughs. We hunted again Sunday morning and our group only got three pheasants, so we decided to call it a day and head home, with most folks in the group going back to Kansas City. I got home about five Sunday evening and kissed my wife and told her about the trip, and she said "I'm sorry you didn't have a good time". And I said "are you kidding... I had a blast!
The severe winters and wet springs have been hard on the pheasants. We got a skiff of snow today, but I don't have time to go out. 
