Favorite Game Bird
Favorite Game Bird
What is your favorite Game Bird to hunt? If you choose other, tell what and why.
- tfbirddog2
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Favorite game bird
I love quail hunting! I live in pheasant country so to getting to hunt quail is hard. But, when I was a kid I got to all the time.
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GROUSE!!!
I chose grouse because those no good rotten flyin' between tree pine tree perchin' blasted birds get the best of me the majority of time....................................and I love em for it. The most challenging bird, (around here) that I can chase. Also a true test for my Weim Dusty.
I voted for pheasants. We have a lot of rice and sugar beets field here and when I started hunting that's where we hunted. But now I hunt at a private preserve.
Billy
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"Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change"
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chukars, chukars, chukars,
Everything else is just a bird
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I VOTED QUAIL
just because only species to hunt other than occasional woodcock
here in florida. anyone intersted in some quail hunting , contact me
ill put you on some birds. im really ready for season to start this year.
i bought a broke GSP last month
here in florida. anyone intersted in some quail hunting , contact me
ill put you on some birds. im really ready for season to start this year.
i bought a broke GSP last month
The pheasant has my nod with the Ruff Grouse a close second.
We don't have quail around here but I was invited to hunt them in upper Texas. The OLN network filmed the hunt. Yes Folks, my dogs have been seen on National TV. What a thrill and honor. Never having hunted quail before that show I did not realize what fun quail hunting is. Wish we had them to hunt here and I might move them to # 1.
Janet
We don't have quail around here but I was invited to hunt them in upper Texas. The OLN network filmed the hunt. Yes Folks, my dogs have been seen on National TV. What a thrill and honor. Never having hunted quail before that show I did not realize what fun quail hunting is. Wish we had them to hunt here and I might move them to # 1.
Janet
Good call Janet.
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It's not how many breaths you have taken but how many times it has been taken away!
Has anyone noticed common sense isn't very common anymore.
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It's not how many breaths you have taken but how many times it has been taken away!
Has anyone noticed common sense isn't very common anymore.
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My dog won't point bunnies. It's wierd. If a rooster or covey of huns or the rare quail will hold, he locks up like a statue, and (usually) won't move till I release him or shoot. If he smells a rabbit he is on it like stink on you know what! He has to find it, root around in the grass or the brush pile till that thing comes out running so he can get right on it's a$$, tongueing the whole time, till I stop him so I can take a shot. Does the same with squirrels.
We winged a few pheasants last season that he chased down for quite a ways through corn fields and CRP with no yipping or tongueing (as the call it). Only makes noise on the furrred creatures. I haven't figured out the why of that yet.
My dog won't point bunnies. It's wierd. If a rooster or covey of huns or the rare quail will hold, he locks up like a statue, and (usually) won't move till I release him or shoot. If he smells a rabbit he is on it like stink on you know what! He has to find it, root around in the grass or the brush pile till that thing comes out running so he can get right on it's a$$, tongueing the whole time, till I stop him so I can take a shot. Does the same with squirrels.
We winged a few pheasants last season that he chased down for quite a ways through corn fields and CRP with no yipping or tongueing (as the call it). Only makes noise on the furrred creatures. I haven't figured out the why of that yet.
Gambel's Quail
The rest are minor league. Gambel's quail are the pros. Any dog that can handle Gambel's quail can handle any other bird. Not that many can.
Anyone else noting regional preferences?
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dont know what the terain is like there but here when chasing chukar you will likley ascend and descend 12,000 +/- ft in one day and you can easily where out a $200 pair of boots in a season!
chukar is what we have the largest numbers of. putting up 4 species in one field thats great but putting up 3 in one day is good enough for me. limits on all (6 chukar, 6 huns, 10 quail). I havent got those limits yet but a good friend has. he has just been trying to limit out on chukar in one jump. he came close this year with 5. then he worries about the rest
chukar is what we have the largest numbers of. putting up 4 species in one field thats great but putting up 3 in one day is good enough for me. limits on all (6 chukar, 6 huns, 10 quail). I havent got those limits yet but a good friend has. he has just been trying to limit out on chukar in one jump. he came close this year with 5. then he worries about the rest
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I like to hunt em all
My preference lately has been for chukar/huns - but I haven't hunted them much due to being in TX the last two winters.
far and away it has to be chukars, they are a covey bird which I like the most and the country is rugged and beautiful. A brace of chukars is wondeful thing considering how hard they are to earn. Desert quail come in a close second with mearns being my favorite bird. I just wish I could get away to hunt them more often than once a year.
Never met a Gamebird that I didn't like or enjoy the challenge, but to me, everything other than a Ruffed Grouse is just a Gamebird! I would think that Chukars in their native lands would be pretty cool, they seem to inhabit lands that pose as much of a challenge as those places Ol' King Ruff lives. If the land you hunt doesn't beat you, then the bird most often will! From the many pix I've seen of "true" Chukar habitat, if you were to cover those areas with Grapevine, Greenbriar, young growth and just general tangles, you would be hunting the same areas where my best Grouse hunting is found in Appalachia!
Bruce Shaffer
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"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten"
Mark Twain
Bruce, Raine, Storm and GSP's
Almost Heaven GSP's
"In Search of the Perfect GSP";)
Bruce, sorry to not have gotten back with you about those keys, things have been a circus around here, hence my lack of posting. hope everything worked out in the end I know what you mean about grouse, I spent my childhood and teenage years chasing old ruff in the hills of western maryland and pennsylvania. they pose their challenges as you mentioned and chukars........well, lets just say I could do with out the 90 degree drop off's and terrible rocks that tear up dogs feet. but I guess that is what i love about it. minus my dogs feet.
favorite game bird
To hunt ... here in Central KS, pheasant is good hunting & what we find most often. Have to travel further for quail, but those are wonderful fun too.
We've hunted chukar in northern NV--our friends there say the first time it's for fun, after that it's for revenge!!
I have to say that chukar is absolutely my favorite to cook & eat--it beats everything hands down! Chukar tetrazini, OMG, talk about delicious!
Overall, the chukar is my favorite game bird -- non native here in KS, so I try to raise some every year to have on hand for training (and eating.)
We've hunted chukar in northern NV--our friends there say the first time it's for fun, after that it's for revenge!!
I have to say that chukar is absolutely my favorite to cook & eat--it beats everything hands down! Chukar tetrazini, OMG, talk about delicious!
Overall, the chukar is my favorite game bird -- non native here in KS, so I try to raise some every year to have on hand for training (and eating.)
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Having relatives farming in Iowa I was introduced to pheasnat hunting there in the late 70's. Remember some great hunting back then. Since then I've continued to hunt pheasants in Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North & South Dakota.
A close second is sharptails. Just find them a neat bird to hunt and I think I might like eating them better than pheasant.
A close second is sharptails. Just find them a neat bird to hunt and I think I might like eating them better than pheasant.