First Quail Hunt of the Season

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We were all a little rusty, but it was a beautiful fall day for friends, dogs, bbq, and birds. :) Kat, Fannie (GSPs) and Josey (Pointer) did much better at pointing than we did at shooting, lol. My 1st time with CZ 28ga, I LIKE it!
 

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For a 28 Ga. that amount of birds is very respectable .......
for someone that did not go to the trap range and practice, on skeet
before the hunt.

Glad that the dogs got to get out in the fresh air and "Smells" and even pick up some birds.

A great day for all...........
 
Outstanding!! There were some quail in my backyard a few weeks back. They were on the roof and landing in the blackberries to eat the dried up ones. Too bad my cat couldn't snag one.
 
I just wish there were sufficient Quail around here to hunt! The Fox, Hawk's, etc and the farmers planting fence to fence have removed all the cover. I haven't heard of a decent Quail hunt around here in over 10+ years. There are a few "hunt clubs" that sell birds and scatter them around for you to hunt, but most raise Chucker and Pheasant.
 
Growing up in the Carolinas, quail hunting was always a great time. Remember always going after school was out and what a great way to spend the afternoon. Due to getting the poo scared out of you (not using a pointer) I waited for tail end Charlie flying up. He was always good on the plate.
 
I am envious as the Bobwhites have all but disappeared in NW Ark./NE Ok.
Places 50 years ago had a covey on every 20 acres. One of my earliest
memories was playing with dad's bird dog puppies.
I would say very good shooting with a 28g. One question, what is the
daily limit of birds?
 
Full disclosure, lol. We have a few wild coveys but it's rare to run across them. Our little hunts consist of putting out 20-25 birds in the morning, eating bbq for lunch, then hunting that afternoon. Two shooters at a point, so we take turns. We brought back 14 of the 22 at this hunt. A friend raises them from chicks and then keeps them in an old chicken house as a flight pen so they fly well. I accuse him of having trained the ones we miss to fly back to his pens so he can sell them again- Homing Quail, lol.
 
Full disclosure, lol. We have a few wild coveys but it's rare to run across them. Our little hunts consist of putting out 20-25 birds in the morning, eating bbq for lunch, then hunting that afternoon. Two shooters at a point, so we take turns. We brought back 14 of the 22 at this hunt. A friend raises them from chicks and then keeps them in an old chicken house as a flight pen so they fly well. I accuse him of having trained the ones we miss to fly back to his pens so he can sell them again- Homing Quail, lol.

That sure looks like a lot of fun. Clay birds, with wings that you can eat.
Looks like your new SxS works great. 👍👍
 
I leave for Hoisington Kansas next week for our opening day of our annual Quail, Pheasant, and Turkey hunt. I get more excited for this hunt than I do all the holidays combined and I hunt with a side by side 20 gauge. Keep light 7-1/2 shot in the improved cylinder barrel and 3" magnum #5s in the full choke barrel if a turkey jumps up. We hunt from sunrise to sunset through Milo and corn fields and heavy timber and brush then clean the game and head to a mexican restaurant for food and beer. It's very tiring and the shooting hasn't been as good the last couple of years but we always have a ton of fun.
 
My dad, brother & myself, and my nephew are wild about 28 gauge! My brother was suppose to inherit dad's 28 sxs. But dad's wife gave it to her nephew in the hills!

Great job on a great harvest of birds! Pen raised is about all you can find in Ohio too!

Ivan
 
Those upland birds are mighty tasty in a pot but I have to admit that of all
the game that my brother and I had to clean after the hunt was a day old frog
or a quail that was carried in a game bag for four hours, in the Calif heat.

The smell of their intestines, was enough to gag a maggot, at least, to me.
 
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I have lived on this place for almost 82 years and in the last 25 years I don't get to hunt quail, my area is built up so much that there is so many people that I can hardly get out my driveway with out getting hit. I used to hear quail calling but not any more. The last whippoorwill I heard was in the Farmers Exchange and it was a customers ring tone on his phone. My last bird dog was a double Elhew black an white pointer.
 
Those upland birds are mighty tasty in a pot but I have to admit that of all
the game that my brother and I had to clean after the hunt was a day old frog
or a quail that was carried in a game bag for four hours, in the Calif heat.

The smell of their intestines, was enough to gag a maggot, at least, to me.

I once knew a man that raised birds to sell to hunters but one man would buy some to kill and eat. He said he didn't want to eat shot birds that had been carried all day. Larry
 
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