Southwest Kansas Essential
Travel
November 11-14, 2005
First posted
Thursday
November 17, 2005 15:56
Updated
Sunday December 17, 2005 16:15
Digital enlargments of analog prints available on email request. ![]() Laid-back optional background music. Not so laid-back optional non-repeating background music. Highway 160 southwest Kansas going east Friday November 11, 2005. ![]() Main street of SECRET southwest Kansas town. Not a good idea to advertise where hunting is good! ![]() Retired insurance adjuster unloading at SECRET Motel. Senior citizen retired insurance adjuster phoned Friday November 18, 2005. Photographer will get BLM map of SW NM. Quail hunting is apparently great there! This motel may be unique in that it has a special room for cleaning birds! But no pool, sauna, ... ![]() Kansas pheasant hunting is best done by forming a skirmish line at one end of a field. Blockers are deployed are the far end of the field. Hunters advance. Any bird that gets up usually gets shot at lots. Like what happened to the Russians at Tsushima. Then load-up and try the next field. 60 year old hunter in foreground. ![]() Another advancing line. ![]() Victim being blasted from the sky. ![]() Skirmish line meeting blocker. ![]() Loading up preparing to move to next field. ![]() Vicitims. ![]() Rigormortis. Father [retired from insurance industry] displaying victim surrounded by two sons. ![]() Watering Drake. ![]() Father left, son right. This son almost stepped on a rattlesnake on Monday November 14, 2005. Photographer was about 10 feet away when this happened. ![]() Skirmish line. ![]() Skirmish line is effective for locating rattlesnakes too! Lunch gas guzzler convention. Note container in back of pick-up truck behind driver. That's an oxygen container! 79 year-old driver required oxygen for breathing ... when he wasn't smoking cigarettes!!! ![]() Gas guzzlers filling up at SECRET convience store in western Kansas. ![]() Kansas Walk In Hunting Area sign. The state of Kansas pays farmers to allow public foot-traffic access to hunt. ![]() Road hunt victim [trophy?] being retrieved. ![]() 79 year-old to left of hunter with orange hat. ![]() Inspecting dog. ![]() Splitting-up victims on Monday November 14, 2005 at end of hunt. ![]() 68 year-old photographer ... and hunter. ![]() Any of these jpgs can be sent via internet to a Walmart near you to make prints. Click on View, Source to search for the url of the jpg you want to print. For example, http://www.prosefights.org/kansas2005/k10.jpg |