This was the dog's first pheasant hunt and he had to run down his first retrieve (not this one) and there wasn't a tail feather in it, after he got it caught. It was still alive when he brought it to me. He hates them now.. 
That sucks to hear about the boy. I've been on plenty of those trips. I think further west this year woulda been a lot better for them, but maybe Russell KS has better "bachelor" places than say Goodland, Colby, Garden City, Hays or Ulysses, KS?? (I know Dodge City doesn't have anything like that..)
Just dad and I hunting this trip, so we didn't cover a lot of ground, but we saw birds at every stop. We only hunted public ground once, and are blessed to have private ground to hunt. We easily saw 30+ birds in 2.5 days of hunting and that's a HUGE improvement over the past few yrs.
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