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 Re: Who's Quail Hunting this weekend
[Re: YellowDog]
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11/01/15 01:31 AM
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So that's what blue quail look like....
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Re: Who's Quail Hunting this weekend
[Re: YellowDog]
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11/01/15 05:12 AM
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Does the heart good to hear this kinda stuff.
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Re: Who's Quail Hunting this weekend
[Re: YellowDog]
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11/01/15 03:22 PM
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That's awesome. Good job.
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Re: Who's Quail Hunting this weekend
[Re: mark3]
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11/01/15 03:31 PM
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We intended to hunt a lot more acreage but we only ended up stopping at 3 farms because the birds where so thick How did you get your access?
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: Who's Quail Hunting this weekend
[Re: bill oxner]
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11/01/15 04:00 PM
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Re: Who's Quail Hunting this weekend
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11/01/15 04:07 PM
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Nope. Great friends. I have one of those.
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Who's Quail Hunting this weekend
[Re: YellowDog]
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11/01/15 07:50 PM
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reeltexan if it was down here that you were talking about, was wwaaayyy muddy, had another 4".
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Re: Who's Quail Hunting this weekend
[Re: YellowDog]
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11/01/15 08:33 PM
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Pushed 21 coveys and shot a 5 man limit in 5 hours in the panhandle saturday morning.
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Re: Who's Quail Hunting this weekend
[Re: YellowDog]
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11/01/15 09:25 PM
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Limits in Three Rivers. Also rats galore, giving my dog fits.
never explain, your friends won't need it and your enemies won't believe it.
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Re: Who's Quail Hunting this weekend
[Re: coyotehunters]
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11/02/15 12:04 AM
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Pushed 21 coveys and shot a 5 man limit in 5 hours in the panhandle saturday morning. A 5 man limit?? Wow....that's basically 5 coveys gone. I'm a little more conservative than that.
Say When.....
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Re: Who's Quail Hunting this weekend
[Re: CinchMan]
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11/02/15 12:08 AM
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Pushed 21 coveys and shot a 5 man limit in 5 hours in the panhandle saturday morning. A 5 man limit?? Wow....that's basically 5 coveys gone. I'm a little more conservative than that. We don't shoot many anymore.
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Who's Quail Hunting this weekend
[Re: CinchMan]
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11/02/15 12:50 AM
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Pushed 21 coveys and shot a 5 man limit in 5 hours in the panhandle saturday morning. A 5 man limit?? Wow....that's basically 5 coveys gone. I'm a little more conservative than that. Maybe you should take up another sport.. Like golf. That way you won't have to shoot anything. That's why they have limits. Not everyone feeds their dogs all year because they like to feel superior watching them work. Where I grew up we kept dogs because we liked to shoot and eat quail. When I was a kid we shot a limit every day of season and feasted on that game almost every night. All our neighbors ate good too. Why not kill out when there's plenty of birds.
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Re: Who's Quail Hunting this weekend
[Re: YellowDog]
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11/02/15 12:50 AM
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21 coveys, So that only comes to 3 to 4 birds taken from each covey.
We only take 1- 2 birds per covey, dependent on the covey size.
If the covey sizes are really large, I don't see taking 3-4 bids as a big deal.
Shopping with your husband is like hunting with the game warden.
Experience is what you get, when you didn't get what you wanted.
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Re: Who's Quail Hunting this weekend
[Re: scalebuster]
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11/02/15 01:08 AM
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Pushed 21 coveys and shot a 5 man limit in 5 hours in the panhandle saturday morning. A 5 man limit?? Wow....that's basically 5 coveys gone. I'm a little more conservative than that. Maybe you should take up another sport.. Like golf. That way you won't have to shoot anything. That's why they have limits. Not everyone feeds their dogs all year because they like to feel superior watching them work. Where I grew up we kept dogs because we liked to shoot and eat quail. When I was a kid we shot a limit every day of season and feasted on that game almost every night. All our neighbors ate good too. Why not kill out when there's plenty of birds. The thing is you can shoot out a lease early in the season and not have huntable coveys at the end of season.
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Who's Quail Hunting this weekend
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11/02/15 01:25 AM
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Pushed 21 coveys and shot a 5 man limit in 5 hours in the panhandle saturday morning. What part of the panhandle if you don't mind me asking? That's awesome, don't blame you one bit for killing a 5 man limit. If the state's millions of dollars of research says we can shoot 15 and they'll still be fine I bet we're ok....
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Re: Who's Quail Hunting this weekend
[Re: YellowDog]
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11/02/15 01:25 AM
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I bet they do not think a thing about shooting non pointed birds.
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Re: Who's Quail Hunting this weekend
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11/02/15 01:27 AM
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Hunted a Briscoe pasture near Fowlerton (@ 30 miles west of Tilden). Saturday morning was wet, muddy, we got a slow start 12 coveys for the day. Sunday we moved 23 coveys.
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Re: Who's Quail Hunting this weekend
[Re: YellowDog]
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11/02/15 01:28 AM
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I quit shooting unpointed birds in around 1990.
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Who's Quail Hunting this weekend
[Re: YellowDog]
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11/02/15 01:32 AM
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I think a lot of you guys on this forum might be too country club to hunt with me and my group.
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Re: Who's Quail Hunting this weekend
[Re: TXPanhandler]
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11/02/15 01:44 AM
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I think a lot of you guys on this forum might be too country club to hunt with me and my group. Lets just call us purist. We don't have the unlimited amount of land available that you seem to have. I do understand shooting blues anyway you can.
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Who's Quail Hunting this weekend
[Re: bill oxner]
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11/02/15 02:01 AM
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Lots of birds, not lots of shooting. We probably busted 12 or 13 coveys, only two pointed. The dogs could not sent worth a darn. Not only were they not finding coveys, they couldn't find the singles or the dead...I'm starting to believe the bit about a hard rain washing the scent off the birds for a day or two.
We all need to practice Whoa more.
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Re: Who's Quail Hunting this weekend
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11/02/15 02:15 AM
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Lots of birds, not lots of shooting. We probably busted 12 or 13 coveys, only two pointed. The dogs could not sent worth a darn. Not only were they not finding coveys, they couldn't find the singles or the dead...I'm starting to believe the bit about a hard rain washing the scent off the birds for a day or two. What area?
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Who's Quail Hunting this weekend
[Re: bill oxner]
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11/02/15 03:03 AM
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Hunted matador this weekend. We were severely handicapped by not having any dogs. Things started off very slow both mornings. Seemed like once 8:30 rolled around we started seeing birds and we were hearing shooting. We moved 10 coveys Saturday and 7 Sunday. We killed more birds than we recovered. Recovery rate was terrible due to the THICK vegetation. Shooting doubles proved to be worthless as I never could find the second bird due to the brush. Ended up with 13 birds in my bag. I know without a doubt I killed well over 20. Incredibly frustrating. First and last time I ever go without a dog. We had a lot fun though and that's what we'll remember.
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Re: Who's Quail Hunting this weekend
[Re: bill oxner]
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11/02/15 03:40 AM
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I think a lot of you guys on this forum might be too country club to hunt with me and my group. Lets just call us purist. We don't have the unlimited amount of land available that you seem to have. I do understand shooting blues anyway you can. Thank you. I'm not the kind of guy thats going to shoot a bob off of a fence post by any means, but when you hunt 75% blues you tend to get frustrated when they give you the slip all the time. I do really love to hunt bobs in thick cover and shoot pointed birds, but I won't pass up a single that I saw fly into a thicket either.
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Re: Who's Quail Hunting this weekend
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11/02/15 03:44 AM
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Hunted matador this weekend. We were severely handicapped by not having any dogs. Things started off very slow both mornings. Seemed like once 8:30 rolled around we started seeing birds and we were hearing shooting. We moved 10 coveys Saturday and 7 Sunday. We killed more birds than we recovered. Recovery rate was terrible due to the THICK vegetation. Shooting doubles proved to be worthless as I never could find the second bird due to the brush. Ended up with 13 birds in my bag. I know without a doubt I killed well over 20. Incredibly frustrating. First and last time I ever go without a dog. We had a lot fun though and that's what we'll remember. That is super frustrating to shoot one and not find it. Did y'all come across any pigs or snakes? Always makes me nervous to take my dogs down there especially before the first freeze.
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