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Re: Ouail Hunting Sixty Years
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02/20/21 03:25 PM
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Anyone have success raising them and restocking in your area ?
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Re: Ouail Hunting Sixty Years
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02/20/21 05:43 PM
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Very few make it. Constant predator control is necessary, aerial predators are off limits. See my previous reply.
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Re: Ouail Hunting Sixty Years
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02/25/21 05:02 AM
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I use to pick up my dad every thanksgiving for a morning hunt. It's been over 25years ago when we had quail, but dogs went down birds got up and we killed 10 on the rise. Man those were the times. Dad passed in December I sure miss him. First hunt this year in Kansas unloaded the dogs and started into the crp. I decided to pack his 1965 sweet sixteen, about 50 yards into the crp I heard him speak to me, man I wished I was with you today. Hair stood up on my neck and I cried like a baby all the way down the 80. My bitch stabbed a rooster I kicked it up I smoked it and said that was for you dad. Things sure have changed for me, I am scared I don't have many hunts left in me. But every good thing comes to end so enjoy every moment.
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Re: Ouail Hunting Sixty Years
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02/25/21 09:42 PM
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Me and a buddy got 6 blues on a covey rise back in high school (chasing them without a dog!) - 2 shots a piece.
Once got 3 bobs in one shot on a rise at the Optima WMA up in the OK panhandle back in HS as well.
This was back in the early 80s. And the pheasant - man - we never knew how good we had it, well until we didn't.
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Re: Ouail Hunting Sixty Years
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02/25/21 11:34 PM
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You are giving away your age.
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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02/26/21 10:38 AM
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I remember seeing a covey of quail in Rockwall, in 1976, where the Rockwall High School is now. That was the last I saw in my home town.
I actually heard some in the Kingston Oklahoma area just a few months ago. Been a long time but the whistle caught my ear quick.
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Re: Ouail Hunting Sixty Years
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02/26/21 04:56 PM
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We had them in Grand Prairie and at our farm near Ennis back then. Walk across a pasture and you'd flush a covey. Didn't really think that much about it.
"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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02/26/21 06:25 PM
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Hunted where the Cowboys stadium now stands. Got permission from a man named Harrington.
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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02/26/21 08:24 PM
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Started hunting with my dad at nine on my uncles ranch in So Cent Kansas. No dogs, these were the times in Kansas when you flushed around good cover, a plum thicket with some grass, and be ready to shoot. Got my first dog at 19, a bought half gun shy setter. Then I got introduced to fun trials, a smallish one course and bird field. And met some guys with special dogs that got me interested in class shooting dogs and best yet some nice pups to start with. It's never got old though I have. Don't shoot them anymore but love to see a young dog find and handle them. Now show me as many birds as we had a few years ago and I might get shotgun out.
Dropped 4 with a shell around 1972 in Yates Center Ks. It was a draw full of plum bushes with some steep to it and the birds came out of the center in a wad at just eye level. I was almost stumbling up hill when I shot They must have been flying in front of each other cause the pattern at that distance (real close) got to be real tight. Hard to play the skill card.
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Re: Ouail Hunting Sixty Years
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02/26/21 11:20 PM
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I remember when half the people in town owned a bird dog. This thread got me to thinking. I haven't seen a bird dog in years.
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Re: Ouail Hunting Sixty Years
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02/27/21 12:36 PM
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We lived in an apartment. My wife brought our first pointer pup home in a shoe box. I ran her on wild bobwhite quail in a pasture across where the Galleria shopping center now stands.
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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02/27/21 04:27 PM
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Sort of a shame, quail hunting is a top pasttime
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Re: Ouail Hunting Sixty Years
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02/27/21 10:41 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. My brother has a few coveys on his place. We do everything that we can to keep them alive. We do not hunt them and we go after predators hard. It still seems that he numbers are going down.
"Man is still a hunter, still a simple searcher after meat..." Robert C. Ruark
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