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 East Tx Woodcock
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01/02/13 08:14 PM
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MBK
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Light Foot
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Just returned from Sabine National Forest. 14 month Vizsla's 1st hunt ever. 3 hunts, 3 limits. If anyone is interested; they are there.
Bag limit is only 3 birds but what a great time and first experience for my dog.
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Re: East Tx Woodcock
[Re: MBK]
#3909075
01/02/13 08:16 PM
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BAS
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Re: East Tx Woodcock
[Re: MBK]
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01/02/13 08:41 PM
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bill oxner
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Just returned from Sabine National Forest. 14 month Vizsla's 1st hunt ever. 3 hunts, 3 limits. If anyone is interested; they are there.
Bag limit is only 3 birds but what a great time and first experience for my dog.
Congratulations, and welcome to the forum. I'm quail hunting Sunday with a guy who does well in the Sam Houstion National Forest. That's a young man's hunt, but sounds fun.
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill ![[Linked Image]](https://texashuntingforum.com/forum/pics/usergals/2017/07/full-3669-105539-full_16668_105507_image.jpg)
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Re: East Tx Woodcock
[Re: bill oxner]
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01/02/13 08:57 PM
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Sniper John
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Thanks for the report. Good to know the migration is timed right. Next week on my way south I will be hunting them for a couple days with my young Vizsla. I think we are going to try Davy Crockett the first day.
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Re: East Tx Woodcock
[Re: MBK]
#3909288
01/02/13 09:08 PM
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Mr. Clean
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Just returned from Sabine National Forest. 14 month Vizsla's 1st hunt ever. 3 hunts, 3 limits. If anyone is interested; they are there.
Bag limit is only 3 birds but what a great time and first experience for my dog.
AWESOME.... many of my fondest memories are of quail hunting with or English Setters and Brit's.
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Re: East Tx Woodcock
[Re: Mr. Clean]
#3910735
01/03/13 03:18 AM
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beatarmy
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Sounds like fun...I am probably going to give up leasing for bird hunting next year so maybe I'll try woodcock hunting as an alternative.
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Re: East Tx Woodcock
[Re: beatarmy]
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01/03/13 11:34 AM
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Briar Rabbit
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This sounds awesome, never done any. Can you eat them like quail or pheasant? And are they just East Texas birds? Lots of ?'s did mean to hi-jack your post, but thanks for let'in me in.
I crow louder, when I'm far from the nest!
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Re: East Tx Woodcock
[Re: Briar Rabbit]
#3911461
01/03/13 01:12 PM
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Yes. I eat them. Typical onion, jalapeņo and bacon wrap. Breasts are about the size of white wings. Lots of "whole bird recipes" though....like quail.
Dark meat but not as strong as dove
Mostly East Texas hunting. There are migration maps at the Ruffed Grouse Society website.
U find them in young pine and yaupon thickets. They sit a lot in the morning and throughout the day and come to wood edges around dusk.
Ended up walking down old secondary roads w the Visla and letting her decide where to go in. Some articles under a "Texas Woodcock Hunting" search
She would either point, or when far enough in the woods, would eventually bump one which usually flushed in the direction of the road. She has no experience though she is 14 months and this was her 1st hunt
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Re: East Tx Woodcock
[Re: Sniper John]
#3911490
01/03/13 01:29 PM
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Try 3 to 5 yr old stands of pine and yaupon. Preferably surrounded by mature forest and walking roads w thick cover along the sides. Good luck.
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Re: East Tx Woodcock
[Re: bill oxner]
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01/03/13 01:48 PM
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Mostly just walk secondary rds off of forest service rds. Let the dog "smell" where they are.
New at it. My hunting hay day was Kansas in the early 1990's. Phesant and quail asking farmers permission to hunt. Just pretty happy the vizsla is pointing singles/doubles on the 1st hunt. Leaves me believing she will so real good w coveys.
Have a great hunt
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Re: East Tx Woodcock
[Re: MBK]
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01/03/13 02:19 PM
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SweetTea
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Awesome. Bet that was a cool hunt.
OMG, this is the best slumber party ever!
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Re: East Tx Woodcock
[Re: SweetTea]
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01/03/13 04:25 PM
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rifleman
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We seem to be loaded up with birds in South East Nac Co this year.
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Re: East Tx Woodcock
[Re: rifleman]
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01/03/13 04:33 PM
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BAS
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Anyone want to get together at one of the NF's and put some dogs down on the ground together?
Just a thought.
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Re: East Tx Woodcock
[Re: BAS]
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01/03/13 08:14 PM
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SNAFU
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I hit the Moore Plantation this morning.... up at 230am to get there at sun up.... lots of walking with miles of road an scrub under foot.... not one bird to flush...
Be nice to have a dog !!!
will go back though next week and try again
Were all here, cuz were not all there !
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Re: East Tx Woodcock
[Re: SNAFU]
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01/04/13 02:17 PM
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I hardly ever saw them BD (before dog) except on real cold mid mornings when they would walk through the leaf litter by the NFS road looking for worms. Also, right before dark, they fly to open areas to feed. I don't pass shoot them though.
They're there, but really hard to see and flush.
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Re: East Tx Woodcock
[Re: MBK]
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01/06/13 02:23 AM
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patf
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You could just try the local strip mall, this guy was in front the Bed Bath and Beyond near Sugar Land. He was a little dazed and confused. 
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Re: East Tx Woodcock
[Re: patf]
#3920597
01/06/13 02:54 AM
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Think i could've seen that one without the dog. Thats interesting, was it in the morning, like he flew into a window o4 something?
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Re: East Tx Woodcock
[Re: MBK]
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01/06/13 03:27 AM
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Sniper John
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I prefer to hunt them in West Texas.  This picture taken last year was from Young County in a creek bottom West of Graham. I think Blaze surprised me by pointing or flushing 8 to 10 Woodcock on that hunt. 
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Re: East Tx Woodcock
[Re: Sniper John]
#3920792
01/06/13 03:43 AM
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BAS
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In a parking lot...I know their habitat is going away but not sure they'll be able to adapt to the burbs!
My dog got all birdy on a walk in our neighborhood, and I thought it was an opossum. It wasn't...flushed a woodcock four houses down from mine.
Last edited by BAS; 01/06/13 03:44 AM.
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Re: East Tx Woodcock
[Re: BAS]
#3921630
01/06/13 03:58 PM
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I wanted to share something on Photobucket with you!  This was her 1st limit Kevin S. Harris Sent from my iPad Sent from my iPad
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Re: East Tx Woodcock
[Re: Sniper John]
#3922168
01/06/13 07:38 PM
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Never knew that they went there. They certainly are in good number this year where we hunted. My son texted that he flushed 2 morw at his stand yesterday.
I live south of Houston and see them flying at dusk sometimes
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Re: East Tx Woodcock
[Re: MBK]
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01/07/13 07:09 PM
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1971snipe
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You guys are apparently seeing more than I did in East Texas for the past several years. Last year we did find a wild covey of quail in Moore Plantation, however. I started going to the Atchafalaya Basin in Louisiana the last couple of years and did well. But so far this year the numbers are way down; in fact I went last Sat., and the dogs pointed just 4, and we got a shot at only 1 of those. Apparently the birds are staying further north this year, both state-wide here in Texas, and also nationally. On another forum, there are guys still flushing wc by the dozens in NJ, Delaware and other northern places. And they aren't just returning early; they never left. I'm planning to hunt Sabine and some of my other old spots this week, and see if my dog and I can find some wc. Hopefully you guys have left a few. 
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Re: East Tx Woodcock
[Re: 1971snipe]
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01/07/13 07:47 PM
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bill oxner
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You guys are apparently seeing more than I did in East Texas for the past several years. Last year we did find a wild covey of quail in Moore Plantation, however. I started going to the Atchafalaya Basin in Louisiana the last couple of years and did well. But so far this year the numbers are way down; in fact I went last Sat., and the dogs pointed just 4, and we got a shot at only 1 of those. Apparently the birds are staying further north this year, both state-wide here in Texas, and also nationally. On another forum, there are guys still flushing wc by the dozens in NJ, Delaware and other northern places. And they aren't just returning early; they never left. I'm planning to hunt Sabine and some of my other old spots this week, and see if my dog and I can find some wc. Hopefully you guys have left a few. Are you the same 1971snipe, who spilled the beans about woodcock in Texas in an article you published in The Pointing Dog Journal?
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: East Tx Woodcock
[Re: bill oxner]
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01/07/13 09:18 PM
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blanked
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Bill you have a memory like an elephant. I believe he is the same one.
I went to SHNF today and didn't find any.
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Re: East Tx Woodcock
[Re: blanked]
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01/08/13 01:41 AM
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1971snipe
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I'm not too hard a guy to remember, actually. But I wasn't the first to write about wc hunting in east Texas; its' been well-known for quite a while.
Bill, I keep missing you ... first at a field trial, then at Top Flight (twice).
Blanked, I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one not finding them this season.
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