That Quail Place Forum
Hunting Gamebirds => Hunting Gamebirds => Topic started by: 333_okh on January 14, 2008, 01:44:57 AM
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Just a couple of pictures to get started. We are late in the season and the birds have been a little harder to find. Typically I am after mountain quail, but there are 10x more valleys to be had. These are the first three males I shot a few weekends ago. I got my limit of 10 in about an hour and a half.
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Where you hunting over a dog or not? Nice pictures j2
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
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Sadly....no dog. The old girl is gone now, and I didn't have the heart to try and take one of the wife's Papillons although one is ready to go for it. Maybe I should give her a try! LOL I do not see a replacement hunting dog in the near future.
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Dont short sell the papillion, you might have a good little gun dog there, I know a Jack Russell that retrieves, although Pheasants are a handful. Or mouthful. If its not gun shy try it.
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Well the Papillon was known as the Continental Toy Spaniel in the past. I will see how my Cybelle does with the gun. The mother dog would be great but she is very short legged. She is also a tenacious little killer of the small animals [butterflies, flies, dragon flies and even mice]. LOL
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Nice looking dinner their for one guy bet you had them gone in a few seconds. I know that I would have. Hope no one gets mad at you for getting a little dinner. If so well then they can go to s53 s80. s98 s98 c110 a31
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Well I didn't post all ten of them, but here the little birds are extremely numerous.
Sorry, but I do hunt and I do love it. If I didn't I would not have bought that little 20 gauge Italian mistress.
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I think a little quail hunting trip needs to be planned for next year I see how well the valley fly when one gets out of my pen but they normally get called back in by the other ones( Vacation time road trip quail hunting) sounds like a winner to me Jim
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Valleys are powerful fliers. I jumped a covey of about 50 in chest high coyote brush and grass and let me tell you they rocked out, but the bobwhite has a quicker burst, just slower top speed in my opinion.
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I have seen gambles a covey of about 25 in the wild and they were fast the ran for a while ahead of me this was on the outskirts of a residential area where the houses were on a couple acre lots but when they took flight it was a beautiful sight they headed up into the hills above the houses
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I have heard the Gambel's is a runner. The valleys run, but typically not that much.
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So, did you find out if your Papillion is gunshy?
Go for it, it'd be a great pic to show one with a Quail, retrieving it.
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I took her out and shot 20 rounds of Fiocchi lites in the 20 gauge with her today. She didn't seem to care at all, but she was searching for what made the echo off the rocks up the hill. I have introduced her, her mother and her sister to quail in the past from successful hunts, so now I need to do so in the field.
Here is Cybelle from this morning with me.
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hahah..that's priceless. a38
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Me being 6'8" and 280-290 pounds makes her look even smaller, but she is the biggest of the three we have at 7 pounds. The truck is a 2500 Dodge Cummings D.
If you like the size difference there then this should make you laugh too. My daughter's Chipmunk with a Leapers red-dot tactical scope in B-square mounts.
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The coyotes will love her to death. Nothing taste better than dog on a leash j41
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nice!
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Here are some eastern Oregon pictures....not exactly a wild bird hunt, but rather hold over birds and flight cage raised birds in a game preserve. Cold as hell, but fun training for the dogs.
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i'm located in central california. the quail populations are going way down :-| i hunt on private farms and they are starting to clean the ditches off.. so the quail have no place to hide. I'm sorry to hear aobut your dog. my French Brittany just recently as of last week developed complete blindness.. and now im training her son for this season. hope all goes well... pheasant population down here is iffy too.
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Look folks I'm from LOUISIANA and in my opinion if you can find a covey of wild Quail anywhere your a lucky man!!
The only Quail you'll find just >>>> near it somebody let loose or escaped.
I've hunted Quail all my life and its one of the most injoyable hunts a man/and his kid can ever have.
We just don't have them here like that anymore.
I could see what ya'll are hunting I can kick a bush with the best dog s020
By the way AWOLF you no that's wrong lol2
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quail are actually really common in the valley. i have a covey that roosts in my back yard. and had a pair hatch and raise chicks in my front yard. it was entertaining.
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Man a covey living on my property would be nice.
I have heard a bob or two on the entire property I lease which is over 2 thousand acres in 7 years.
You pretty much grow em or you don't eat em !!
Wild populations are a treasure of the past around here.
A very truly lost treasure.
You should really appreciate what you have because it could vanish and leave only memories.
Memories are wonderful they just don't eat very well. :grin:
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went quail hunting this morning.. didnt see one, didnt hear one, dog didnt smell one.. 2 years ago we got our limits every time we went. so sad s2