Bird hunting

[hawkeye]

Does anybody on this site do any bird hunting besides me? Maybe a MSDucks quail hunt could be in order. I've got a few dogs, if somebody has to birds. Wild of course. I got into it several years ago when the duck hunting pressure went through the roof. I don't find a whole lot of birds, but I absolutely love it. If you've never seen a wild covey rise in front of a couple of pointers, you don't know what you're missing. I usually make at least one, sometimes two trips out of state to get my quail/pheasant fix. Just wondering if anybody else hunted locally.

[vern3]

Just got back from North Dakota hunting Huns and Sharptails. Good luck finding wild birds here in MS. I believe Gadwall2 on here has a pay hunt that he offers.

[Double R 2]

Best wild bird hunting remaining has got to be Kansas. Texas and Oklahoma too.

[grnhed]

I got into quail hunting a few years back with my dad....being from North Alabama that is where we hunt them.....I wish there were more wild birds but they are scarce and hard to come by.....we hunt a mix of released birds and wild birds! The best to me is watching the dogs work

[Nash]

I have the hook up on some pen raised pheasants, and I have a pointing lab. If anyone wants to I am up for it.

All we need is a place. Could be alot of fun.

[cwink]

I am in.. Grew up Quail hunting in Tx.. Absolutly love it.. Just let me know when and where.

[Got Chocolate?]

i would also love to. got a german shorthaired that is about a year old. let me know if anybody comes up with a game plan.

[Double Deuce]

My dad has a place in OK and the quail hunting is pretty good out there but it still doesn't compare to those orange feet touching the water.

[bigwater]

hell ramsey i swear every time i'm at willow break i see wild quail.. i know i've seen at least 4 or so coveys on the place.. proably enuff to have a hunt.. eh?

[Estes Lane Hunting]

Got rid of my two pointers and one setter 3 years ago when I got tired of looking for birds. I would hunt all day for one covey of birds. And it was usually a small covey at that.
Maybe with all this corn and beans planted this year it may help boost the population some.

[DUCKAHOLIC]

When I was growing up, I did not think there was any other type of hunting. That is about all my dad and grandfather did. I think everygun paw paw owned had the barrel sawed off to open it up for a bird gun.

Opened every year on Thanksgiving, we would hunt come eat and hunt again.

Cant remember if this law still stands, but I remember my paw paw cussing snow one year cause you could not hunt them with snow on the ground.

[Double R 2]

hell ramsey i swear every time i'm at willow break i see wild quail.. i know i've seen at least 4 or so coveys on the place.. proably enuff to have a hunt.. eh?

When things get wet most disappear, or so it seems.

[Josey Wales]

We got rid of our bird dogs in 1989..just wasn't enough wild birds in SW Mississippi to go after..Went to Texas once (1987) and the hunting was phenomenal!

Good thing I live SD now..we got sharptail, huns, ringnecks, praire chickens, and even a few bobwhites..I just bought a Britney pup..she gets her first introduction to sharptails in the morning.

[JDgator]

You have to manage for them, just like anything else. There are a number of good resources at MSU to look into. I went quail hunting with an older gentleman from this board not too long ago. I learnt that cutover timber tracts can provide great quail habitat if properly managed.

[hawkeye]

Texas is by far still number one for wild birds, followed not so closely by OK and KS. Anything after that is a pissing match. Went to OK 2 years ago, bird hunting in a few places was incredible, even in mid January. Moved 9 coveys one morning. Best day I ever had was in Childress, TX, we moved 19 coveys in one morning. Around here, I'm lucky to find a covey or two per hunt, but I don't mind walking for 3 hours to find them if I have to, I just love to watch those dogs lock up. I witnessed one of the most picture perfect points/backs I've ever seen last season, older dog was running full speed quartering into the wind, younger dog behind him quartering the other way. Older dog LOCKS DOWN on big covey under ironwood bush, younger dog just about flipped over front ways throwing the brakes on, I wish everybody here could have seen it, I'll walk all day to see dogs do that. There's something about watching a dog go from full speed to dead solid point in a millisecond, and after I see that, I can turn around and go home, I've had a great hunt. If anybody has any ideas on where we could hunt, let's hear it. Does anybody know anything about all the pheasants released in Vance last year as an orchard hunt. I know several of them made in through the summer unscathed.