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I would be glad to help form a group with you! I am now retired and although I would need to travel (from Texas), I how have the time and desire to do so for the right situation. Good luck with your search.
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Wrote a post the other night that never landed, or maybe was deleted.
Around that area shouldn't be too hard to go knocking on some farmer/ranchers doors. Drive around looking for mounds, in April the pups will be out. Better read the laws though. There's a p/dog season on public lands. Private lands IF they'll let you at 'em, no problem. Just be sure where you're at and know the regs first. You're quite a distance from Wyo. In the semi desert of that area there should be lots of p/dogs. Good luck
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We traveled through that area last year on vacation. Being a dog hunter I was drooling all over the window of the car at the dog towns we passed. I thought that I would maybe want to come back and try my luck. Talked to some old boys when we stopped for lunch in a small town diner they were more then pleased to offer up locations. I seriously was thinking about coming back and trying, but living in the northeast corner of Kansas it's just to far to travel to just shoot dogs. I hope you have some luck.
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Skeet:
there should be more than enough in Kans for your desire. Used to see lots of 'em while driving around the state.
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I have a sister in Kansas. Would love to go down that way for a visit and shoot some dogs while I am at it. I assume they are in northern Kansas mainly? Or throughout?
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Most anyplace there's "plains" you'll find 'em.
About the only places they're not found is where they've been poisoned. Lots of ranchers have done that. Many times on Google Earth you can get it down close enough to see the mounds. Never have seen any species of animals yet. Except once looking at the buff cull areas near Darwin, AU. Sure looked like half dozen were crossing a two track. Kinda blurry but, lined up one after the other and crossing an open area. I have no idea what huntings like in Kans, lots of 'em in Nebraska too. See what Gary W has to say about there.
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George, I was luck to find a place in western Kansas that we have been going back to for several years. Poison has taken a toil on the dogs in and around that area. So I've been trying to branch out and find some new areas and have not had any luck. I'm tempted to take off around the end of April and head west for several days to see if I can talk to some ranchers face to face. Because running ads in area newspapers in rural Colorado, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Kansas has yielded zero results.
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Grew up shooting sod poodles by the 100's, maybe 1000's here in Wyoming. Today, there are not near as many around on public land and unfortunately, a lot of the ranchers that have them want to charge money to shoot them. That is something I am not willing to pay for I guess.
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O.K.
#1). You should understand all sod poodles are not the same. I saw a map long ago and that country, west slope, is "white tailed" p'dog country. They are not as tightly packed as farther east, the "black tailed" p'dog country. Years ago, shot with a man from the Denver area in SD and he said he would never leave CO again. Plenty but you have to find them and obey the law. I think there is a season now. Ask Game and Parks. Obviously, you will want to cross the divide and find something very good. Cinnamon Grassland (actually Cimaron, family joke) is in SW Kansas. Last I looked at their site they ask you not shoot them! After game and parks, look for grazing assoc.'s. In Newcastle Wyo there was a list in the BLM (bUREAU OF lAND mANAGEMENT) office of ranchers begging for shooters. Aunt Sam had a rule. They could give you name and address BUT NOT phone number! List rested on a phone book, well thumbed. Prior user had even marked the names. There was a tv show in the Denver area, local bunny huggers were doing "catch and release" on p'dogs in an area of housing development. You could ask there. Just don't tell them why. But, to repeat, the rich areas are in east CO. Or east Wyo. Reportedly there was a dog town 26 miles across between Douglas and Newcastle Wyo. I pulled up a map and I think your best bet near by is north, grasslands. Luck. Happy Trails.
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I have a couple off the wall/trail stories to share again.
Back in the early 80's I had a truck parts, air filter route business going. Someone around Lamar Co told me I should slip into Kans and ask around for: "triple H" (Happy Honky Hauler). Doing some asking I found the guy in a brand new $45,000 pickup at a feed lot. A few years before he was starving with a house full of kids and couldn't find a job of any kind he said. Then someone told him "if you just had a dump truck I'd hire you to clean out my feedlot". Daddy bought him a truck and small loader to get started with. When I met him he told me the story and that he was now: "running some over 20 trucks, most belly dump semi's and half dozen CAT loaders and was already some over a Million dollars in "sales/production" with about 40 people hired to do the work. Lot's of feed lots around that area. He worked a deal to get paid to clean the feedlots and with farmers to fertilize their fields and got paid for that too. He said: "just think, hauling shit for a living and get rich doing it!" -------------- A rancher due east of here on the Cnty line where we'd shot p/dogs and called coyotes told us one day: "sure, IF you can find any shoot 'em, but, I've decided this year I'm going to eliminate p/dogs on my lands. I just bought 250 buckets of poison pills at $250 a bucket". Hey what?? Figure that one out, see if you agree with my figures: $10.000! these are meant to be eye openers. Both true.
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