people from the midwest I've got a question for you

Adam · Post by **Adam** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 5:02 pm

would anybody be interested if i put together a pretty big hunt at a Hunt club here in central illinois? for $150 per person you'd have 10 pheasant 5 chukar and 5 quail released typically we'd like to have 3 or 4 man groups so thats 60 or 80 birds per field

Birdhunter1 · Post by **Birdhunter1** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 2:35 pm

If I don't have much going on the day you do it I may be interested.
How are you putting out that many birds for $150?

larue · Post by **larue** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 4:38 pm

adam,not to sound snotty,but that situation sounds like a real nightmare
to me,way too many birds!

Post by **ezzy333** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:37 pm

I have the same thoughts as Larue. How big are these fields? And how many people and dogs are you planning on having in the field at a time? It sounds interesting as a fun day but 4 or 5 birds in 10 acres is a lot if you want any type of dog work. I'd much sooner have a place we can run dogs and have a few bird contacts than to have so many birds it just becomes a slaughter.

Hope this doesn't sound too harsh either because I like the idea if the details could be worked out.

Ezzy

ohiogsp · Post by **ohiogsp** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 8:43 pm

Any time I have ever went to a preserve I have had them set the birds in 2 rounds because even 5 birds in a 20-30 acre field is not going to take very long to shoot.

Adam · Post by **Adam** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:54 pm

I'll try and work out the details guys and let you know exactly how big the fields are and if theres a way we could spilt the bird releases up. We ran a few of these last year and they worked out well. My group never had more then 2 dogs on the ground at a time its alot of shooting i think the most birds anybody actually took home out of 80 was like 50 as you obviously wont get them all. We'd need at least 20 guys to put one of these together so i'll get that information and see what we could do

Birdhunter1 · Post by **Birdhunter1** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 7:15 am

ohiogsp wrote:Any time I have ever went to a preserve I have had them set the birds in 2 rounds because even 5 birds in a 20-30 acre field is not going to take very long to shoot.

You've obviously never been to my preserve then. Very tall and thick grass!

ohiogsp · Post by **ohiogsp** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 11:58 am

When we go we do 4 hour hunts. Even with thick fields you have 2 hours per set. Plus we are hunting 4 dogs most the time.