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Quail Tips without a canis familiaris

• Thread starter kf1983
• Commencement appointment Oct 20, 2021

• #1

Going to try for quail this weekend. The is a long clay road a long a river that has lots of covies. I don't have a dog. Whatsoever tips for when i see them 50-seventy yards abroad?

likewise thinking since fourth dimension is of the essence when you see them, what about riding a wheel with shotgun loaded and gear up on my back? I could approach faster to where they flush and maybe could become closer since information technology's not a big white pickup truck coming there way…

• #2

Figure out their patterns - where they are roosting, where they feed, where they get water, and where they take hold of the afternoon sun. That volition help a lot.

I oasis't had hunting dogs since I had kids 24 years agone and it's a very different game. You may lose birds; don't accept shots when the birds are flying over thickets or poisonous substance oak. Information technology's a lot more work without dogs but it's do-able!

Also if you spook a covey they usually won't go far. Just keep working the covey and then requite them fourth dimension to regroup. I chase solo in an area that sounds like yours - a long narrow canyon with a creek bed running the length. Information technology's very rewarding to hike upwards the sides of the canyon after busting up the covey and taking a few birds and just sit and listen to their calls, run across them regroup, and and so sentry them resume feeding, sunning, or preening through binos while I accept a snack and take a pause.

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I've hunted without dogs it tin a lot more than challenging. I never used a bike and don't meet it being very useful and would suggest having one chambered. Eat suggestion don't shoot a second bird until you hunted up the get-go downed bird.

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Agree with Catchfish - 1 in paw is better than ii [lost] in the bush-league. Unless you are in a cut field and can easily search them up, shoot i, marking it, lookout man the covey state, think the downed bird, chase the covey for number 2. They will movement a chip after landing....

A unique technique I've worked and have had success with - if they don't affluent likewise wild after the shot, gather your bird and head in the full general management the birds scattered to. Detect a hide and let the area settle for a few minutes - listen for them to start calling to regather the covey. Mimic that call and they will come dorsum!

This seems to be almost successful in heavy encompass areas; you tin't tromp around as well much looking for your bird so it might not apply to your surface area. I've experienced flushes along two-track forest roads where a couple of us shot five birds - all singles except for one pair - that were independently returning dorsum to the cadre zone of the originally flush. Flush. Shoot. Gather. Call. Shoot. Get together. Telephone call. Shoot. Get together. Telephone call. Shoot/shoot.

Otherwise, run and gun them like scaled quail in the SW; bust them up on the road while driving, then follow them upwardly in the castor.

Practiced luck!

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Sounds featherbrained only if yous are struggling to affluent them, make the sound of a flushing bird with you lips. That seems to get them upwards for me when I don't accept a dog. I'll repeat what others have said- Shoot one bird at a time and find it before shooting at another. Quail have such good camo they are very easy to lose if you get distracted from the exact spot they land.

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I'd probably opt out of riding a bike with a loaded shotgun on my back. Regardless, best of luck. They are tasty trivial things.

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• #vii

Thanks all. Neat tips. Ill scrap the bike idea.

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Keep an eye out. When they motility across an open infinite, a pb quail volition often mail service-up high and keep watch, set up to alert the covey of approaching danger.

When they break and fly, hurry up and pick one and focus on that ane. Proceed your eyes on him equally he falls. Don't give upwards when it comes to looking for him, really really put in that fourth dimension considering lotta times they're non all the way dead and they'd hurry up and scurry into a thick bush. And then not but the location effectually where y'all watched them go down, merely if no luck, so also consider expanding the radius of the search a lil bit, and LISTEN too! Sometimes if they don't go die right abroad, ya might hear them flap a wing or re-position within where they are hiding due to the pain.

Dove will do this besides. But they can't walk as fast and then unremarkably you'll run into them if they are trying to sneak abroad. The Pigeon remain dang quite while they effort to flee.

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