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TX panhandle 2017
#7128005
03/30/18 05:53 PM
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KVKWHAT
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Green Horn
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Re: TX panhandle 2017
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#7128018
03/30/18 06:14 PM
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Joined: Aug 2006
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colt45-90
Texas colt45
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Texas colt45
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wow you must have found a honey spot, congrats
hold on Newt, we got a runaway
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Re: TX panhandle 2017
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#7128143
03/30/18 08:56 PM
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Joined: Jan 2017
Posts: 59
MI2TX
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Whacking roosters. Sweet.
In dog beers, I've only had one.
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Re: TX panhandle 2017
[Re: KVKWHAT]
#7128180
03/30/18 09:40 PM
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Joined: Apr 2007
Posts: 60,262
BOBO the Clown
kind of a big deal
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kind of a big deal
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Nice, any young /short spurred birds
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Re: TX panhandle 2017
[Re: MI2TX]
#7128182
03/30/18 09:40 PM
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Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 65,416
SnakeWrangler
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Whacking roosters. Sweet.
I believe in science and I’m an insufferable [censored] Actually, BBC is pretty damn good "You Cannot Simultaneously Be Politically Correct And Intellectually Honest!"
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Re: TX panhandle 2017
[Re: MI2TX]
#7128190
03/30/18 09:49 PM
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KVKWHAT
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Green Horn
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Yes there was several this year birds, all the rain last spring sure did help out.
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Re: TX panhandle 2017
[Re: KVKWHAT]
#7128198
03/30/18 09:58 PM
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Joined: Apr 2007
Posts: 60,262
BOBO the Clown
kind of a big deal
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kind of a big deal
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Yes there was several this year birds, all the rain last spring sure did help out. What I like to hear!!! I saw a few in Oct, while antelope hunting but I didn’t make it back to bird hunt.
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Re: TX panhandle 2017
[Re: KVKWHAT]
#7128212
03/30/18 10:10 PM
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KVKWHAT
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Green Horn
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Green Horn
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Yes sir, population is still really healthy as of right now, when we were back out in the fields chasing quial we flushed numerous pheasant.
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Re: TX panhandle 2017
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#7128312
03/30/18 11:45 PM
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Joined: Nov 2009
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bill oxner
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Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: TX panhandle 2017
[Re: KVKWHAT]
#7128497
03/31/18 02:54 AM
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BOBO the Clown
kind of a big deal
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kind of a big deal
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Yes sir, population is still really healthy as of right now, when we were back out in the fields chasing quial we flushed numerous pheasant. Four good wet years now. I think going to have to make a trip during season.
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Re: TX panhandle 2017
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#7129311
04/01/18 03:34 AM
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Joined: Aug 2016
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Texasphez
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NICE!
What part of the panhandle?
We had some good days, we had some bad days this last season, but if this deal doesn't change soon I'm afraid what next year is going to be like! It is dry!!!
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Re: TX panhandle 2017
[Re: Texasphez]
#7129316
04/01/18 03:51 AM
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KVKWHAT
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Green Horn
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Green Horn
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Around the Dimmitt area, and yes we need moisture in a hurry
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Re: TX panhandle 2017
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#7131734
04/03/18 11:54 PM
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Joined: Aug 2013
Posts: 1,014
Drahthaar
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Re: TX panhandle 2017
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#7140008
04/13/18 02:09 PM
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Joined: Aug 2014
Posts: 110
JCCinOhio
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Woodsman
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Confused... My father in law has 80 acres of prime quail habitat near Vernon, it's surrounded by cow pasture & cotton (so quail have nowhere else to go). Two seasons ago my young pup (8mos at that time) must have wild flushed 400 quail.. Once she figured it out we did good for 2 days till we had to leave. Went back this year and only flushed 10 quail.. I was told it was due to the wet springs. But here you say wet spring helps?
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Re: TX panhandle 2017
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#7140023
04/13/18 02:27 PM
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NorthTXbirdhunter
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Confused... My father in law has 80 acres of prime quail habitat near Vernon, it's surrounded by cow pasture & cotton (so quail have nowhere else to go). Two seasons ago my young pup (8mos at that time) must have wild flushed 400 quail.. Once she figured it out we did good for 2 days till we had to leave. Went back this year and only flushed 10 quail.. I was told it was due to the wet springs. But here you say wet spring helps? I guarantee you that a wet spring, if there was one in that area, had nothing to do with the quail decline of this past season. And it was not the eyeworm either. Hot weather, no rain, no food, no cover, ice in the first week of January on an already weak bird starved the birds to death. With no cover, the weak birds were susceptible of avarian predators like never before. I don’t ever see anyone mention hawks and owls, but the Quail-Tech studies show that they are responsible for over 60% of quail mortality. We are going to have to feed the birds year round until this drought cycle moves out.
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Re: TX panhandle 2017
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#7140156
04/13/18 05:14 PM
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Joined: Aug 2014
Posts: 110
JCCinOhio
Woodsman
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Woodsman
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Yeah, it's amazing how much that 80 acres has declined in the 7 years I've been going. Use to be nice trees there, now they are all dead and blown over. There also use to be a lot of prickly pear cactus there and I didn't see hardly any this year. Wild plum bushes are growing like wildfire though.
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Re: TX panhandle 2017
[Re: JCCinOhio]
#7140262
04/13/18 06:53 PM
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Joined: Mar 2011
Posts: 1,068
NorthTXbirdhunter
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Sounds like the family had the land in a brush control program.
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