It’s been a long time

[sixgunner455]

I miss the days when I had a covey on my 60 acres and could use them to train my bird dogs.
I gave up on those #@%$! pointers after my 3rd one. Searching the next county for them and the hard-headed non-retrieving greyhound wannabees ruining a good hunt.
I switched to Brits and thought I was in Heaven. Then the quail disappeared and I got away from bird dogs.

What a shame.

Why don’t you build a Johnny house and raise some Bobs? Maybe engineer some cover and feed spots on your place; then you’ll have quail. Raise a few and release, rise repeat. Get a pup and have some fun!

 

[Patocazador]

Why don’t you build a Johnny house and raise some Bobs? Maybe engineer some cover and feed spots on your place; then you’ll have quail. Raise a few and release, rise repeat. Get a pup and have some fun!

Tame quail don't fly half the time and you have to have a loong enclosed pen to exercise them or they get fatter and lazier. The only way is to plant them in a launcher and pull the cord if the pup breaks so he'll never get one.
Basically, too much trouble with sub-standard birds. The wild ones are skittish and choose where they go. If you plant birds, the dogs learn to key on you and that is no good. Plus, the wild ones are gone for a reason. Tame ones would be killed off by hawks, foxes, bobcats, and coyotes in no time.

 

[Ugly Sauce]

Yep, that stuff does happen. Had an owl make a try for the Killer, but missed, and he lived to a ripe old age.

 

[Ugly Sauce]

Quail certainly were my favorite bird to hunt. That's some fast shooting, used to hunt them with my grand-daddy's double 12ga hammer gun.

We have quite a few around the place, I don't hunt them, but we feed them, and I'm saving them for if the trucks stop running.

 

[Steve Milbocker]

Highland, eagles are also a concern. There are a lot of them here. Not long ago I saw 5 of them feasting on a loon.

 

[Steve Milbocker]

Another mild day on the island. Put up 2 only got a shot at this one. I did see one dandy buck tending a doe. Probably a 10 point high and heavy 18” or so.

 

[Steve Milbocker]

Had a couple of grouse left so my wife decided to make a partridge pot pie

 

[Armored farmer]

My quail hunting days were before the digital age. Some day ill dig into my tubs of pictures that I took with disposable cameras.
I want to see the pics of my old dogs, me and my dad, my buddy and i when we were young and full of p&v.