Quail Hunt with new pups :)

[S&W ucla]

Hunt #3 of the season but first one with new pups (6) at 4.5months old. They did better than us,lol! Been worked in flight pen, but first time in the wild. First pic is Lucy (grandma) and Draco (grandson). Last pic is Fannie, she is Lucy's daughter and gave us 6 pups not long before she passed. 3 are chocolate like she was. Hopefully have several more hunts this season. Good friends, dogs, and BBQ = Good times!

 

[SAFireman]

Hunt #3 of the season but first one with new pups (6) at 4.5months old. They did better than us,lol! Been worked in flight pen, but first time in the wild. First pic is Lucy (grandma) and Draco (grandson). Last pic is Fannie, she is Lucy's daughter and gave us 6 pups not long before she passed. 3 are chocolate like she was. Hopefully have several more hunts this season. Good friends, dogs, and BBQ = Good times!

Looks like great fun!

Sadly, the only thing my border collie hunts is the neighbor's cats

 

[smitholdtimer]

Nothing Better Than A Good Hunt With Good Dogs

You are very blessed with good dogs, congratulations, I know you sre having fun, E N J O Y !

 

[Jebus35745]

Beautiful dogs, I envy the **** out of you. Enjoy the rest of the season, Larry

 

[Rustyt1953]

Handsome feller.

 

[H Richard]

You are lucky to live somewhere that still has a population of Quail to hunt!

 

[S&W ucla]

You are lucky to live somewhere that still has a population of Quail to hunt!

If you just want to hunt, there are a few wild coveys around. If you want to find, shoot, and eat birds we have to put them out beforehand. We get to have fun and no added pressure on the wild population. Everything likes to eat quail- hawks, owls, other raptors, coyote, fox, bobcat, snakes, dogs, cats, ME! -added to nest busters coons, possums, hogs, crows, squirrels, rats, armadillos, and others. Can't blame them critters, quail are tasty

 

[Nevada Ed]

Always nice to let the dogs get out and smell "Wild Air" with a funny smell in it's breeze.

Ours are not hunters but they do get excited when they smell bacon or hot dogs, cooking.

Many great days of hunting for you and your dogs.

 

[Narragansett]

Great, just great. Thank you for sharing

 

[Grayfox]

My Dad was a big quail hunter. Watching good bird dogs work is a pure joy. Dad had one old English Setter (Kate) that was a true master of the craft. Other people would beg Dad to let them hunt with him and Kate just so their dogs could learn from her.
Even though I was quite young at the time, I downed a few birds with her myself.
But then the damned coyotes found their way across the Mississippi River and there haven't been any quail around here for at least 30 years now. No rabbits either.

 

[ancient-one]

Yes, coyotes along with bobcats and stray house cats do significant damage to the bird population. One of the least used fun hunting is calling and shooting coyotes. Most already have guns and the electronic caller is not too high. A lot of walking is not required but I am no longer able to hack it.
I used a .243 Cal. rifle that I bought around 1967 or1968. I sometimes used my handloads but usually eighty grain factory ammo. The rifle with a 3-12 variable scope on it is standing behind my bedroom door. When I first started hunting it was with a four power scope.
If more people would varmint hunt it would help the bird population a great deal. I wish that I could turn the clock back, even ten years, and I would head out to my old hunting grounds.

 

[Farmer17]

We saw a lot of quail and pheasant in Kansas during opening day of pheasant season a couple weeks ago, more than we had seen in many years. We didn't get to shoot many quail because there were too many guys in our hunting group and it would have been dangerous because of the way they fly and change direction. I shot 5 or six quail but should have gotten a LOT more. I don't think there is any animal on earth that frustrates me more, those little suckers are hard to hit! I was mad about my shooting and blamed it on my SxS shotgun so I went out and bought a new Beretta Ultima 20 gauge auto.

 

[IAM Rand]

Did quail once in my life. I miss upland bird hunting. Just need to find someone that will go and has dogs.

 

[Nevada Ed]

I do remember my very first quail hunt up in Lassen county, near Red Bluff, Calif.
My fater let me tag along with his five hunting partners and four dogs, walking the bushy hill sides
with small trees and home made brush piles
that were on a friends property.

I was on the far right side of the group, with my trusty, single shot 20 Ga. at the age of fourteen.
The dogs said that there were birds in this one pile of brush and they were right.
A bird flushed on my side and I mounted and fired my shotgun and the
well patterened bird landed in a near by Holly bush, three feet from the fround, in the lower branches.

One of the dogs went over to retreive it but stopped short, siffing and looking at a
"Blob" of wet feathers soaked in dripping blood and it's body parts, falling to the ground.

My father said, "Uh son, ......... you need to let the bird get a little farther out,
befor you shot them, if we are going to be able to eat them."

That bird was left for the magpies and was my first lesson on the art of Quail hunting.

If you are young enough to go out in the field, more power to you.
Those days have past but there are still the memories and pictures
that keep me young at heart.