Frank's outdoors...

Had a fun hunt on our annual post Thanksgiving shootout!  Not as many birds in the area, perhaps because it wasn't cool enough yet.  We still took 5 geese and totally whiffed on an 8-pack of pintail and only took 1 of them.  So, 6 birds in total.  Interesting about the pintails, there were 8 of them.  It was about 9am, sunny, and partly cloudy with a mild front moving in.  The stubble wheat field was DRY as a bone, and they came in locked & committed without any calling.  Our guide was calling in some specks at the time, so possibly they keyed on  that, but still, they sat right on us. We love hunting with Ryan and Butch from Butch's Guide Service, but anyone know of some good guides down in the Eagle Lake, Garwood, El Campo, etc???  We have had a few slow years, and looking at other potential operations for guides. 

My crew and I experienced another amazing hunt with Don's Guide Service in Glen Elder, KS!  Don and his wife Cheryl are wonderful hosts and got us on wild Kansas pheasants. We got there on Sunday evening right as the first real cold front was moving through northern Kansas, and it was in the upper 20's at 4pm.  Dinner was on the table and the drinks were in hand.  By Monday morning for our first hunt, it was 17 degrees with a 15mph wind!  It did warm up to the 40s each day, and in the low 50s on Wednesday. We had 7 hunters in our crew.  7 hunters, 3 days, 4 birds per day limit... so we were shooting for 84 birds.  We came up 1 short for the hunt!  Great hunt! Enjoy the photos!