collapse

Advertisement


Author Topic: Anyone ever hunted NE for quail?  (Read 1501 times)

Offline jetjockey

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jun 2009
  • Posts: 900
  • Location: Castle Rock CO
Anyone ever hunted NE for quail?
« on: April 24, 2013, 04:30:18 PM »
I'm on my way back from whirlwind trip out to Nebraska, from Atlanta, to pick up my dog from the trainer.  I flew out this morning and Im flying back now.  My trainer just relocated to NE to train in the prairies on wild birds full time.  He has a few pheasants, a bunch if chickens, and tons a of quail it seems.   I had no idea the SE part of Nebraska was loaded with quail, but it seems to be.  In just 10 minutes of showing me the property, we moved 2 coveys and I heard another calling.  Texas, Oklahoma, and Georgia were historically the big bob white quail destinations, but I'm wondering if anyone has ever targeted them in NE?  I think it might have to go on my bucket list of hunting destinations.

Offline baldopepper

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2010
  • Posts: 2603
Re: Anyone ever hunted NE for quail?
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2013, 04:52:27 PM »
Depends on what you call the NE-lots of quail around Wenatchee, lots around Coulee City, Wilbur, Creston.  Doesn't seem many people over that way target them much, but I've had some great hunts for them around there.  They're a ton of fun to hunt, need a good dog to find em after you knock em down though. Just drive around early morning and you'll see them running across the road. 

Offline hollymaster

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+2)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Nov 2012
  • Posts: 1122
  • Location: Enumclaw
Re: Anyone ever hunted NE for quail?
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2013, 05:24:23 PM »
Depends on what you call the NE-lots of quail around Wenatchee, lots around Coulee City, Wilbur, Creston.  Doesn't seem many people over that way target them much, but I've had some great hunts for them around there.  They're a ton of fun to hunt, need a good dog to find em after you knock em down though. Just drive around early morning and you'll see them running across the road.

He was wondering about Nebrasky, the state in the middle of the US.

Offline baldopepper

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2010
  • Posts: 2603
Re: Anyone ever hunted NE for quail?
« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2013, 06:50:25 PM »
Geeze- thanks hollymaster-guess I was having a case of cranial rectitius, been so many comments and questions about the NE part of our state it didn't compute in my thick skull. 

Offline Stilly bay

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jul 2010
  • Posts: 1416
  • ELITIST WEST SIDE DITCH PARROT HUNTER
Re: Anyone ever hunted NE for quail?
« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2013, 08:47:09 PM »
I suppose were just talking about them little bobwhite fellers that whistle and hold still long enough for you to find your dog no matter how many miles away he was from you when he first went on point
"Love the dogs before loving the hunt; love the hunt for the dogs." - Ben O. Williams

“It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.”
― Jim Harrison

Offline AspenBud

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Dec 2012
  • Posts: 1742
  • Location: Washington
Re: Anyone ever hunted NE for quail?
« Reply #5 on: April 25, 2013, 02:55:50 PM »
I suppose were just talking about them little bobwhite fellers that whistle and hold still long enough for you to find your dog no matter how many miles away he was from you when he first went on point

Grouse snob.   ;)

Offline Stilly bay

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jul 2010
  • Posts: 1416
  • ELITIST WEST SIDE DITCH PARROT HUNTER
Re: Anyone ever hunted NE for quail?
« Reply #6 on: April 25, 2013, 03:58:14 PM »
 :Pmaybe, but Im not too good to go slumming after gentleman Bob if I had the chance. I hear he is a little easier on the dogs than his western cousins.
"Love the dogs before loving the hunt; love the hunt for the dogs." - Ben O. Williams

“It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.”
― Jim Harrison

 


* Advertisement

* Recent Topics

Bear Scratch on Tree by ghosthunter
[Today at 09:12:13 AM]


Game trails to nowhere? by Okanagan
[Today at 08:52:50 AM]


90's Yamaha no telltale? by Crunchy
[Today at 08:40:12 AM]


Sauk Unit Youth Elk Tips by Practical Approach
[Today at 08:17:14 AM]


E scouting for bears by hunter399
[Today at 08:04:13 AM]


That "lake taste" in freshwater fish by hunter399
[Today at 08:01:07 AM]


RDS Scope ring height by blackpowderhunter
[Today at 06:05:07 AM]


Rimrock Bull: Modern by bowguy
[Today at 05:59:49 AM]


No trespassing, hunting, fishing signs posted along Skykomish river by Night goat
[Today at 04:28:57 AM]


NEED ADVICE: LATE after JUNE 15th IDAHO BEAR by huntnnw
[Yesterday at 10:52:52 PM]


Archery elk gear, 2025. by blackveltbowhunter
[Yesterday at 09:36:02 PM]


Grayback Youth Hunt by Big6bull
[Yesterday at 08:20:59 PM]


Pocket Carry by fly-by
[Yesterday at 06:35:19 PM]


Early Huckleberry Bull Moose tag drawn! by HillHound
[Yesterday at 05:36:47 PM]


SWAKANE EWE by vandeman17
[Yesterday at 02:55:45 PM]


49 degrees north late Moose tag by Buzzsaw461
[Yesterday at 02:44:10 PM]


Video highlighting and discussing WDFW corruption by Boss .300 winmag
[Yesterday at 01:42:41 PM]


Tease 'l' by kellama2001
[Yesterday at 01:23:41 PM]


What barrel length 24”, 26” or 28” by Call em in
[Yesterday at 12:47:43 PM]


PROOF RESEARCH CLOSEOUT by BigJs Outdoor Store
[Yesterday at 12:35:23 PM]

SimplePortal 2.3.7 © 2008-2025, SimplePortal