What does your favorite Hunting Spot look like?

[quailrunner]

Mine is this mountain located in Central New Mexico. Actually I hunt the foothills at the base of the mountain early in the season and after the snows arrive move down into the slightly flatter terrain. I usually hunt here 3 to 4 times a week (during the weekdays) and when the kids are out of school we'll hunt here and a few other areas. We find Gambels and Scalies here and of course the occasional cottontail. Late January and early February winds usually make the Gambels hold tight in what I call the "black bush" and it will take a few hours for the dogs to figure out that they must be very thorough and really tighten up.

10 am and the spy is out

New Water tank should add an additional 2-3 coveys to the area

[BigShooter]

My favorite spot looks a lot like a honey hole.

One of my best spots of all time was a low area surrounded by sunflowers adjacent to a tree line .....on posted land. Fortunately the owner never showed up while we were there. In ND one may hunt any land that's not posted. Posting is accomplished by No Trespass or No hunting signs posted at all corners and any gates (barb wire gates included). The signs must be dated, contain a current contact phone number and include a signature. You may not walk through standing crops without landowner permission. One evening I came in from the north hugging a tree line in order to stay out of the sunflowers. The number of birds were unreal. We hit that spot three more times just before dusk.

Then we discovered the land was posted and never went there again. Technically, it was not legally posted as it only had a couple of old faded signs on the south along a gravel road. There were no signs on the NE & NW corners. We've since discovered some landowners expect you to drive around all four edges of a property looking for the one no hunting sign they put out.

We try to be very respectful of landowners in ND and will most often ask permission even if none is required. That assumes of course that the landowner can be identified so we usually go to the nearest farmhouse within two miles or so & ask if they either are the owner or know the owner. One reason we ask permission is because if hunters tick off enough landowners, the farmers & ranchers will get more restrictive trespass laws passed by the legislature. A fair number of landowners in ND have told us they have few or no problems with non-residents and we'd like to keep it that way. Believe it or not some even have signs saying "Non-Residents Welcome".

My favorite hunting spots are almost all on posted land ..... where we've been given permission to hunt.

[fourtrax]

Grouse covert, MN.

[tommyboy72]

Wide open and flat.

[Ruffshooter]

This is the area: Go off the edges about 200 yards and be ready for a day of fun while the road hunters pass by.

[quailrunner]

Beautiful Country we live in! Great photo's too, keep them coming, maybe a little more info on what you hunt for along with the photo's would be great.

[Dirtysteve]

I don't have any without dogs in them but if you look past the dogs you'll see the country I hunt
Grouse


Chukars


and more chukars

[tommyboy72]

I hunt scaled quail mixed with some bobwhites and some hybrid bob-scalie mixes and pheasant. I will try to get some pics of my pheasant hunting areas posted later this week

[ACooper]

Pheasants, quail and deer. North Central Okla.

[jimbo&rooster]

dirtysteve, I love that last picture.....
My favorite hunting spot is an old ox bow on the wabash river that has been cut off from the main river bed. it is not necisarily a hot spot or honey hole, but it dose provide a few malards and divers every year. its the first place i ever took my father waterfowl hunting with me. as far as birds go there is a buffer strip between two fields that leads to a tree row that follows a ditch line, this is one of my favorite places to bust quail. its not always about the numbers as much as being in a place sometimes.
Jim

[rapid fire]

Ruffshooter, what are those coordinates again? Beautiful.

[mudhunter]

This is the area: Go off the edges about 200 yards and be ready for a day of fun while the road hunters pass by.

I love Northern Maine, we saw a few road hunters but nobody in the woods

[Gordon Guy]

[Chukar12]

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[Highland Gundogs]

Chukar, if you look close youll see Chopper on point.

[Ruffshooter]

Ruffshooter, what are those coordinates again? Beautiful.

Due east of RT 11,Aroostick County, just pick a spot.

[NWCORNER]

This is where the magic happens

[JKP]

North Dakota

[tommyboy72]

I thought I would post a couple of pics from todays training run. Here is where I like to pheasant hunt but as you can see we have had copious amounts of rain this summer and the normally dry, brown, knee high CRP field ( I am 6'3") is just a bit over my head with sunflowers now. When I left home this morning it was a tolerable 80 degrees and by the time I drove 10 miles over to the spot and unloaded the dogs and walked halfway through the field it jumped to about 95. It was a scorcher for the dogs. I won't make that mistake again.

[c.rhea]

Chukars

Look close and you will see my pointer in a vest across the canyon.



Another one with a dog across the canyon

[AHGSP]

Ruffed Grouse




Ruffed Grouse and Woodcock






Though I find myself longing for Sharptails and Chickens in S.D......sighhhhh

[cgbirddogs]

Couple of spots







All in Northern AZ

[Tall Boy]

Some open piney woods for you guys

[quailrunner]

Lots of great pictures and even better "spots". Wish more people would take a camera along because this is way cool seeing all the different types of terrain that people hunt. Some of you chukar guys need telephoto lenses,(that's some ankle twistin', hyper-extended knee territory). I'll bet all the trees are top heavy with lead shot in those ruffed grouse pictures.

[sjkennels]

Grouse covert, MN.

that's shut eye country there.

[fishvik]

Mine is an area of public land that is only lightly grazed by livestock that is sagebrush steppe with openings caused by a burn 15 years ago that are revegetated with needle and thread grass. It is gently rolling with some chokecherry and lava inclusions. Real good sage grouse, sharptail and hun habitat. And to top it off the Tetons are the distant backdrop.

[RuttCrazed]

Great pictures so far everyone! Here are a few of mine:

Pheasants:


Prairie Chickens:




Chukars:




Rut

[snips]

Some memorable places for me:)

[fourtrax]

Great Thread.