C4C PHEASANT HUNT

That’s right, folks, if you never had the thrill of a rooster flushing out from under your feet, now’s your chance.  We’ll be traveling to SW Kansas for a weekend in some of the best pheasant country in the US.  Doug Johnson has graciously offered us a place to stay for the weekend, and access to more than 20,000 acres of public and private pheasant habitat.  While there’s never any guarantee you’ll get your limit of 4 roosters per day (just ask this year’s dove hunters), there’s more land than we can walk in 2 days, and this year promises to offer a better than average harvest.  We can also hunt quail and dove, if we come across them.  We’ll leave Albuquerque Friday afternoon, Nov. 13, and come back Sunday afternoon the 15th.  It’s about a 7 hr drive from Albuquerque to Kismet, Ks. where we’ll be staying.  A Kansas non-resident hunting license will cost $72.50, and can be purchased online from the KWDP at: www.kdwp.state.ks.us/news/License-Permits. 

Bring:

- License

- ID

- HUNTER’S EDUCATION CARD. (REQUIRED, UNLESS YOU WERE BORN BEFORE JULY 1957)

- A 12ga. (or 20ga.) shotgun, 2-3/4″ shells and #6 to #7-1/2 lead shot is a pretty std. load.

- Blaze orange is recommended, as swinging on game is the number one cause of hunting accidents in KS.

- Warm clothes, the colder, the better, it could be 60 degrees and sunny, or 20 degrees and whiteout conditions w/ a foot of snow on the ground.  We’ll hope for the latter, minus the whiteout part.

- Chaps, or upland type hunting pants are recommended, there are plenty of ‘pokeys’ that will penetrate regular denim fairly easily.  If you don’t have anything like this, let us know.

- It’s not uncommon to hike 10 miles in a day’s hunt.  Although it’s generally level ground, a good pair of boots are highly desirable.

KS Regulations can be found here at: kdwp.state.ks.us/news/content/download/14625/100362/file/KS%20Hunting%20Regulations%2009.pdf.

For more details, contact Jim Johnson at 505-573-0302 or email jim@crosshairsforchrist.org