packnpundit
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Hi all,
I live in Arizona and am getting very interested in hunting quail. Here's the deal. I want to use a .22 airgun in an area behind my house. I can't discharge a firearm in the neighborhood. The hunting regs state that rabbit and other small game may be taken with an air rifle. It say nothing specifically about quail. In another section of the code it states "upland birds" must be taken with shotgun, or shot shells in a pistol, bow and arrow, slingshot if using shot, or falconry. Are quail considered upland birds?
Where the birds are
Since shotgunners cannot hunt the area, there is a super abundance of small game- cottontails, quail, dove. And more than a few predators - many coyotes judging by the chorus I hear on full moons. I have seen lots of Javalina, a couple wildcats, Gila Monsters and of course, rattlers.
I step out onto a hard scrabble Sonoran desert. Now the neighbor just north of me has been feeding a huge flock of Gambel's quail. Probably 150 -200 birds show up at dawn and dusk for a regular feeding. These birds are absolutely prime. A trail of birdseed could bring them right into my sights. Heh Heh.
There are also dry washes that can be walked for miles. BLM land close by. By the time season opens in October I will be chomping at the bit!
Hope my neighbor don't consider these birds his pets.
I live in Arizona and am getting very interested in hunting quail. Here's the deal. I want to use a .22 airgun in an area behind my house. I can't discharge a firearm in the neighborhood. The hunting regs state that rabbit and other small game may be taken with an air rifle. It say nothing specifically about quail. In another section of the code it states "upland birds" must be taken with shotgun, or shot shells in a pistol, bow and arrow, slingshot if using shot, or falconry. Are quail considered upland birds?
Where the birds are
Since shotgunners cannot hunt the area, there is a super abundance of small game- cottontails, quail, dove. And more than a few predators - many coyotes judging by the chorus I hear on full moons. I have seen lots of Javalina, a couple wildcats, Gila Monsters and of course, rattlers.
I step out onto a hard scrabble Sonoran desert. Now the neighbor just north of me has been feeding a huge flock of Gambel's quail. Probably 150 -200 birds show up at dawn and dusk for a regular feeding. These birds are absolutely prime. A trail of birdseed could bring them right into my sights. Heh Heh.
There are also dry washes that can be walked for miles. BLM land close by. By the time season opens in October I will be chomping at the bit!
Hope my neighbor don't consider these birds his pets.