How to find chukars

[fluentvoo]

When you do locate them they will fly up uphill further, then when you get up the hill to them they will fly down hill, repeat as needed.... They are not called the heart attack bird for nothing...

I have never had them fly up hill on me. They always run up the hillside, and always fly downhill. Best case scenario for me is to be working a draw uphill, and have them bust and have to go vertical and fly over me to get downhill.

I think thee most important thing in locating chukar is knowing what their poop looks like. The landscape all looks very similar in chukar country. I have hunted one side of a river hard and found no poo. Cross the river and there are coveys every few hundred yards.

That is a photo from somewhere online, while the poop is a little older and brown, chukar poop looks EXACTLY like that, just a bit greener. The poop almost always has a white tip, and is about the size of a quarter, or slightly bigger. If you are walking and walking and not seeing any birds, and aren't seeing poop on the ground, chances are that's not a good area.

[nwwanderer]

Great advice, one more, listen first and last light, they talk a lot.

[Curly]

Great advice, one more, listen first and last light, they talk a lot.

They aren't talking so much as actually laughing at hunters.......

[JLS]

Great advice, one more, listen first and last light, they talk a lot.

They aren't talking so much as actually laughing at hunters.......

They are calling you something that rhymes with chukar, or trucker, or........

You get the point

[nwwanderer]

Laughing it is, do they make a thousand yard .17 target rifle?

[boneaddict]

These aren't chuks but to me they are the same devils

[boneaddict]

[BIGINNER]

These aren't chuks but to me they are the same devils

honestly, for me thee devils are easier

[quadrafire]

Here is one dropping a bomb!

[njdmb]

Find the steepest rockiest no good nastiest country you can that has water and feed. Start walking, watch them fly to the bottom, walk to the bottom, chase them as they run back to the top. Once on top watch them fly back to bottom, repeat, repeat, repeat and so on. At the end of the day be happy if you shot a few and prepare to spend all eternity seeking revenge on the little guys. All kidding aside they are challenging, but rewarding to chase, as well as addicting. Good luck to you!!!

[Skyvalhunter]

YFC

[merkelman]

Those photos look familiar!

[coachcw]

naches , ive seen a bunch of chucks just up the hill and to the west of your phots 

[coachcw]

you better have a ride back up that's a ways down . The spine between the canyon to the west is good but a bit snakey . drop straight over from the lil water spot on the hillside

[coachcw]

do you park a bike at the bottom ?