Chukar and hun

[huntsman_trev]

Where do you guys see these bugars? and what gauge/shot #  do you guys use? any personal favorite recipes for these beautiful birds?

[asmith]

I always use 7.5 shot, as I only run into them when quail hunting.  I don't specifically target them.  I cook all my upland birds the same way, breast them out, wrap in thick cut bacon and soak overnight in teriyaki.  Then bbq or bake.

[Curly]

Beautiful dogs, Trev. 

Chukar are found on the breaks of Columbia, Snake, and Yakima Rivers (as well as other steep, rocky areas with cheat grass).  Huns are in sagebrush near wheat fields.  I haven't been lucky enough to really get into huns very much.

[jackson7]

usually use 6's out of a 20 gauge. Curly hit the areas.

[Fshnpole]

Yea now more than i ever feel you have to target certain areas for different birds.  I always remember going bird hunting with 4'sfor pheasant 6's for huns and 7 1/2 for quail and always having a combination of many birds in the vest. Now i just feel lucky to find some birds when im out chasin them. And use to see chukar in places you would never see them now.

[brokenvet]

Nice birds

[JayBird02]

I hunt with 6's most of the season and if I'm chasing late season chukars I might go with 5's.

[huntsman_trev]

I hunt with 6's most of the season and if I'm chasing late season chukars I might go with 5's.

that's what i was thinking, thanks for the help.  Great looking birds and dogs!

[SpringerFan]

Thought cheat grass was bad for dogs to hunt in. How do you keep your dog's safe from getting any imbeded?

[merkelman]

Anyone else out there have any luck with the red legs or the greys?

[ribka]

decent luck on Huns

[JayBird02]

Anyone else out there have any luck with the red legs or the greys?

You need to get your ass back over here and maybe we can both have some luck. The Hungarian Hillside is look good along with Chukar *censored* Ridge

[merkelman]

Haaaaa!  Soon enough my friend...

[wildweeds]

I thought way outside the box one time and plucked some chuks,stuffed em with apple based stuffing,smoked em in the smoker about an hour and a half on low temp and then finished em off in the oven. Pretty much a home run, my wife who hates anything smoked exclaimed you need to shoot a bunch more of those things. And yeah plucking them sucked.Sure wish my granddad was still around I used to drop off roosters and he'd pluck em and grandma would cook them up and they were to die for, she'd brown em, make gravy and lay the parts over scalloped potatos(the home made kind) and cover the browned birds with gravy and bake till done. Good gravy could that southern woman cook gamebirds. Her chore as a youngun in ole miss was to take a shotgun and fetch quail for supper and then cook em.Nothing fancy salt pepper as far as seasonings went.

[Fishnfowler]

I hunt them along the Yakima, Snake, Columbia, and Salmon Rivers.





1-1/8oz of No. 6 shot is my preferred load.

I eat them a dozen different ways, but my favorite is a stuffed breast lightly grilled and served with a sauce over wild rice.  Kebobs and peanut sauce are also very good.