Traveling East for Birds?

[saltwaterhillbilly]

Not sure if this is the right area to post but I am getting my 11 month old GSP back from the trainer in a week or so and shes been there for a few months and  so i want to get my money's worth out of her for this upcoming upland season , I have the wife convinced to let me either go to South Dakota or do a few days on the east side of the state for upland. Has anyone adventured out of Washington for upland I'd love to get her on as many birds as possible. Any advice would be appreciated I would like to take my travel trailer and shack up somewhere to save on the cost of a hotel or lodge. I've been researching where to go in South Dakota or the east side but of course it's all strange to me and only hunted here on the  wetside and if you go and want a buddy I'd be glad to come along to or vise versa and no I'm not asking for you to show me where your spot is and have been doing as much research as I can

[Bwana Bob]

South Dakota hunting is supposed to poor this year. You will get your young dog into a lot more birds if you hunt quail on the east side. I've owned three Brittany's and I hunted them almost exclusively on quail their first year. I got lots of good dog work doing that. Its easier to get a dog back into quail after a covey fly's off. And young dogs can do very bad things chasing , I mean hunting pheasants. Save your money and hunt quail here until your dog is real steady then go to SD on a good bird year. Just my 2 cents 

[saltwaterhillbilly]

Thanks for the input makes sence and trust me I'd love to hunt quail, I just need to get over to the east side to find some decent spots for her and i to go

Not sure if this is the right area to post but I am getting my 11 month old GSP back from the trainer in a week or so and shes been there for a few months and  so i want to get my money's worth out of her for this upcoming upland season , I have the wife convinced to let me either go to South Dakota or do a few days on the east side of the state for upland. Has anyone adventured out of Washington for upland I'd love to get her on as many birds as possible. Any advice would be appreciated I would like to take my travel trailer and shack up somewhere to save on the cost of a hotel or lodge. I've been researching where to go in South Dakota or the east side but of course it's all strange to me and only hunted here on the  wetside and if you go and want a buddy I'd be glad to come along to or vise versa and no I'm not asking for you to show me where your spot is and have been doing as much research as I can

[bobcat]

For quail you might check into hunting the Yakama Nation:
http://www.ynwildlife.org/publichuntingfishing.php

[quadcrazy69]

For quail you might check into hunting the Yakama Nation:
http://www.ynwildlife.org/publichuntingfishing.php

 

I was just over there on the res for the dove opener and saw a lot of quail.

[Carl]

I was just over there on the res for the dove opener and saw a lot of quail.

I was there too.  Did you see me?   

Carl

[JLS]

Central MT is reported to be poor for ringnecks this year also.  Lots of sharpies and Huns though.  Have you thought about a chukar trip to OR or ID?

[saltwaterhillbilly]

Yes but wouldn't know where to begin

[JLS]

Send me a PM and I'll see if I can help.

[SpringerFan]

I would never take a young dog to SD. Had some folks who I train with take a trip there with some steady Springers.

First ditch they hit up went a ton of birds and a dog took off. Found it on the next farm about 3 miles away. I have also heard that you can really ruin a good dog with that overload no matter the age.

I would stay local as was already pointed out.

Good luck and hunt safe! 

[lokidog]

South Dakota hunting is supposed to poor this year. You will get your young dog into a lot more birds if you hunt quail on the east side. I've owned three Brittany's and I hunted them almost exclusively on quail their first year. I got lots of good dog work doing that. Its easier to get a dog back into quail after a covey fly's off. And young dogs can do very bad things chasing , I mean hunting pheasants. Save your money and hunt quail here until your dog is real steady then go to SD on a good bird year. Just my 2 cents

We saw mass amounts of pheasants in June in North Dakota and we weren't really looking for them.

[kinoko]

I'll be traveling east most weekends from Everett with my two young dogs.  I'm hoping to get them on chucker and quail.  Not sure if we could work out a carpool or anything, as my husband comes along as well sometimes, but just throwing that option out there.  I don't have "good spots" as I hunted my first pup, then 7 months old, on the release sites last year and we ran into some pheasants but only one quail.  He's advanced quite a bit since then, and is steady to wing, but my other one is just starting to sort this out.   

Does anyone want to offer any suggestions for quail/chucker hunting that are closer to Ellensburg or Wenatchee?  I hunted along some foothills in Wenatchee thinking they might be good chucker ground a couple of times, but we never found anything.  It was later in the day and there's also a pheasant release site there, so perhaps it'd already been hunted and I didn't drive far enough down the road.