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Ouail Hunting Sixty Years
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02/09/21 12:25 PM
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Setting her reminiscing, I have killed five birds on a covey rise twice in those sixty years and can still remember were is was hunting, both times I shot four times and killed five birds. Can't remember when Texas went from three to five shots, does anybody remember. Started hunting at thirteen caring a Stevens 410. Not a wild quail in east Texas now.
Thanks Dana Bizzell
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Re: Ouail Hunting Sixty Years
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02/09/21 12:29 PM
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I got 5 on one covey rise in south Texas. Got 3 with on shot on a lease near Lake Ivy.
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Ouail Hunting Sixty Years
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02/09/21 01:46 PM
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Setting her reminiscing, I have killed five birds on a covey rise twice in those sixty years and can still remember were is was hunting, both times I shot four times and killed five birds. Can't remember when Texas went from three to five shots, does anybody remember. Started hunting at thirteen caring a Stevens 410. Not a wild quail in east Texas now.
Thanks Dana Bizzell It’s too bad they’re all gone
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Re: Ouail Hunting Sixty Years
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02/09/21 01:55 PM
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Setting her reminiscing, I have killed five birds on a covey rise twice in those sixty years and can still remember were is was hunting, both times I shot four times and killed five birds. Can't remember when Texas went from three to five shots, does anybody remember. Started hunting at thirteen caring a Stevens 410. Not a wild quail in east Texas now.
Thanks Dana Bizzell It’s too bad they’re all gone Yep. I've only seen one covey pointed that were still on the roost it the snow. I could have whipped toe entire covey out if I had been hunting for cheap meat.
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Ouail Hunting Sixty Years
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02/09/21 02:49 PM
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Got 6 blues in one skillet shot near Iraan one time!
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Re: Ouail Hunting Sixty Years
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02/09/21 04:10 PM
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I remember hunting quail with good success in east Texas. That was in the early 60's. It's a shame. Quail hunting is my favorite sport, but have pretty much given it up.
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Re: Ouail Hunting Sixty Years
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02/09/21 04:33 PM
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Setting her reminiscing, I have killed five birds on a covey rise twice in those sixty years and can still remember were is was hunting, both times I shot four times and killed five birds. Can't remember when Texas went from three to five shots, does anybody remember. Started hunting at thirteen caring a Stevens 410. Not a wild quail in east Texas now.
Thanks Dana Bizzell It’s too bad they’re all gone Yep. I've only seen one covey pointed that were still on the roost it the snow. I could have whipped toe entire covey out if I had been hunting for cheap meat. Found this but could fine them roosting.
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Ouail Hunting Sixty Years
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02/09/21 04:53 PM
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Combat Infantryman, the ultimate hunter where the prey shoots back. _____________"Illegitimus non carborundum est"_______________
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Re: Ouail Hunting Sixty Years
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02/17/21 03:01 AM
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Got 4 on a rise once in 1980. I was 19. The first time I ever went with the man that I hunted with for years after shot 5 on the first covey rise we ever came upon. I was amazed. He did that on a very regular basis for many years. I used to tell him we were hunting my place so he had to let me shoot a single every other time because nobody could get on a bird as fast as him. Of course we found about 25 coveys a day and the limit was 24 birds a day back then. Shackelford county.
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Re: Ouail Hunting Sixty Years
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02/17/21 04:23 AM
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Got 4 on a rise once in 1980. I was 19. The first time I ever went with the man that I hunted with for years after shot 5 on the first covey rise we ever came upon. I was amazed. He did that on a very regular basis for many years. I used to tell him we were hunting my place so he had to let me shoot a single every other time because nobody could get on a bird as fast as him. Of course we found about 25 coveys a day and the limit was 24 birds a day back then. Shackelford county. Lol, boy them days are long gone.
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Re: Ouail Hunting Sixty Years
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02/17/21 04:25 AM
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[quote=huntwest]Got 4 on a rise once in 1980. I was 19. The first time I ever went with the man that I hunted with for years after shot 5 on the first covey rise we ever came upon. I was amazed. He did that on a very regular basis for many years. I used to tell him we were hunting my place so he had to let me shoot a single every other time because nobody could get on a bird as fast as him. Of course we found about 25 coveys a day and the limit was 24 birds a day back then. Shackelford county. Lol, boy them days are long gone. I grew up in Stonewall county near Guthrie, I remember as kid not even being able to walk outside without hearing a quail whistle.
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Re: Ouail Hunting Sixty Years
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02/17/21 04:32 PM
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Anyone have any thoughts on why quail numbers have dropped so much? The argument is "clean" farming eliminated habitat but where I live everything looks about the same as 30 years ago but the coveys are gone. I'm wondering is it is more birds of prey (hawks, etc.) or some type of disease. I don't buy into this habitat lose argument.
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Re: Ouail Hunting Sixty Years
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02/17/21 05:55 PM
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Anyone have any thoughts on why quail numbers have dropped so much? The argument is "clean" farming eliminated habitat but where I live everything looks about the same as 30 years ago but the coveys are gone. I'm wondering is it is more birds of prey (hawks, etc.) or some type of disease. I don't buy into this habitat lose argument. im sure the farming practices have changed..... way more pesticides, cleaner fields mean less weeds, less weeds means less bugs, less bugs mean less feed for quail chicks. in my opinion farming has alot to do with the decline in our quail population in my area (missouri) im not bashing farmers at all, it is just something we have to deal with.
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Re: Ouail Hunting Sixty Years
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02/17/21 06:18 PM
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I saw the quail go out of east TX. Everyone had bird dogs when I was a kid growing up in Nacogdoches county. Sad.
I learned long ago you can't reason someone out of something they don't reason themselves into.
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Re: Ouail Hunting Sixty Years
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02/17/21 06:25 PM
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I saw the quail go out of east TX. Everyone had bird dogs when I was a kid growing up in Nacogdoches county. Sad. It keeps moving west.
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Ouail Hunting Sixty Years
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02/17/21 07:11 PM
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Anyone have any thoughts on why quail numbers have dropped so much? The argument is "clean" farming eliminated habitat but where I live everything looks about the same as 30 years ago but the coveys are gone. I'm wondering is it is more birds of prey (hawks, etc.) or some type of disease. I don't buy into this habitat lose argument. It has been discussed some.
"Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war." - General Patton
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Re: Ouail Hunting Sixty Years
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02/17/21 07:15 PM
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Anyone have any thoughts on why quail numbers have dropped so much? The argument is "clean" farming eliminated habitat but where I live everything looks about the same as 30 years ago but the coveys are gone. I'm wondering is it is more birds of prey (hawks, etc.) or some type of disease. I don't buy into this habitat lose argument. It has been discussed some. That’s putting it mildly.
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Re: Ouail Hunting Sixty Years
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02/18/21 07:35 AM
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Anyone hunt dove? How many times you come into town from a poor dove hunt and the town is loaded with dove.
Quail hear UTVs and stay away from those high pressure roads . I cant tell you how many times hunting public my dogs find most birds too close to the black top roads where they cant be shot.
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Re: Ouail Hunting Sixty Years
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02/18/21 11:35 AM
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Anyone have any thoughts on why quail numbers have dropped so much? The argument is "clean" farming eliminated habitat but where I live everything looks about the same as 30 years ago but the coveys are gone. I'm wondering is it is more birds of prey (hawks, etc.) or some type of disease. I don't buy into this habitat lose argument. It has been discussed some. Along with fire ants.
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Ouail Hunting Sixty Years
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02/18/21 03:11 PM
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Early season I was seeing close to 2 dozen coveys in and along the roads at my lease. The deer hunters feed the roads heavily. But I don’t hunt the roads, I don’t want my dogs sight pointing.
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Re: Ouail Hunting Sixty Years
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02/19/21 04:57 PM
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What I was saying is this, let's say there is a spot you used to see quail all the time, right along the road. There may be a few farms here and there but mostly just fields. Now, 30 years later- area looks the same as it always did, no new farm that mowed away all the shrubs, etc. AND YET, in such areas-I never see any quail nowadays. Maybe it is fire ants, etc. Just seems odd that the experts say it is clean farming, it must be other factors in many instances.
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Re: Ouail Hunting Sixty Years
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02/19/21 05:10 PM
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Plenty of info and theories online.
"Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war." - General Patton
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Re: Ouail Hunting Sixty Years
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02/19/21 05:18 PM
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Still birds in S Texas and there’s plenty of fire ants.
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Re: Ouail Hunting Sixty Years
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02/19/21 05:31 PM
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There's a long list of things that has contributed to lower numbers. Improved pasture (loss of habitat), more birds of prey through protection and increased food sources, proliferation of hogs, fire ants, eye worms, liver disease and don't forget weather. When numbers are low to begin with weather plays a much bigger part in sustaining numbers. Poor old quail have too many battles to fight. Wish I had dogs again and there were huntable numbers.
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Re: Ouail Hunting Sixty Years
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02/19/21 05:33 PM
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Quail are born looking for a way to die.
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