Who's the outfitter that several of y'all recommend in KS? I can't find the thread since it's greater than a year old.

This is the place I have been and had an awesome hunt.

https://www.uplandinnhunts.com/

'' We specialize in upland game bird restoration ". So does this mean they shoot pen raised birds?

I've hunted out of Sublette Kansas several times with Lazy J Hunting

https://lazyjhunting.com/

We had 6 hunters in our group when we hunted. They would break us up in groups of 3 to hunt.

I've hunted out of Chamberlain SD also - Kansas is a good hunt. More economical than SD.

Upland isn't canned from what I remember from the other thread. I knew they do a lot of field maintenance to make great habitat to support wild birds

Don's Guide Service. Glen Elder, KS

SunrayAg said:

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This is the place I have been and had an awesome hunt.

https://www.uplandinnhunts.com/

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We hunted 3 years with upland inn. A lot of fun. Even ended up there the same weekend as a fellow OBer from another group a couple times. I would recommend it.

Mas89 said:

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'' We specialize in upland game bird restoration ". So does this mean they shoot pen raised birds?

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There are so many released birds up there that the ones you shoot have basically been out there for a few years. You do not know the difference. If you go somewhere that tells you ahead of time that they do release birds don't let it scare you away. These communities live off of folks coming to hunt, and making every last part of the stay and hunt as enjoyable as can be. The released birds have a lower rate of survival so the ones that do live end up being as close to a wild as you would know.

Mas89 said:

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'' We specialize in upland game bird restoration ". So does this mean they shoot pen raised birds?

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I've hunted here for last 5 years. Always a top notch experience. They surrogate birds in the fields to boost population, so not pen raised. They do a nice job cultivating habitat and have some milo strips planted to provide feeding plots near cover for the birds. Good outfit.

Mas89 said:

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'' We specialize in upland game bird restoration ". So does this mean they shoot pen raised birds?

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The floods a few years back wiped out native population. Vast majority of hunts are now kickbirds. And the ones that aren't, were probably last year's kickbirds.

Its still fun.

Farmer 95 mentioned it. Upland inn uses a surrogator system. They incubate and hatch pheasants. Then place the very young phesants(I think in the firstcouple days after birth) in this device called a surrogator which is a cage with a one way door out. They put food and water in the surrogator. Then the surrogator with birds is put out in a hunting field. When the food and water runs out and they get a little bigger they go out the door. So after a little bit of contact with humans upon birth that's it. They don't resupply the surrogator. Never got close enough to kick a bird in the 3 years we hunted at upland inn. They behave like wild birds or pretty damn close.

Lazy J

anybody have outfitters to avoid?

Maybe Sean will chime in?

rab79 said:

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anybody have outfitters to avoid?

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Rader Lodge