Greater Prairie Chicken Season Opens November 19

By AmmoLand Editor JE

PRATT, Kan. -(Ammoland.com)- Kansas is known nationally for its spectacular pheasant and quail hunting, but the true icon of this prairie state is the greater prairie chicken.

The tall and mixed-grass prairies still intact in Kansas provide one of the last strongholds of this prairie grouse, and the long tradition of hunting these unique birds will be renewed again on Nov. 19, 2016.

There is an early greater prairie chicken hunting season in Kansas, Sept.15-Oct. 15, which allows hunters the opportunity to hunt the birds behind pointing dogs.

During the early season, birds are scattered in large pastures, and the small family groups are more likely to hold and flush within shotgun range than larger flocks found later in the fall.

During the regular Nov. 19, 2016-Jan. 31, 2017 season, the traditional hunting method involves pass shooting near harvested grain fields.

When freezes kill insects, greater prairie chickens commonly fly from grass to stubble fields to feed just after sunrise and just before sunset.

The first challenge is finding the right feed field, then selecting a position along the field border where birds might …Read the Rest

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