If you could hunt only one upland bird...

[ORCA_SIX]

Pheasants - with my German Wirehaired Pointer

[dukethedog]

I'll vouch for the fact that he will hunt them till he can't walk.  He hunted them one day till no one could walk, not even the dogs........

I like huns and pheasant.

I tried to stop at one of each, but those damn grouse kept getting up.



If I had to pick, it would be chukar.  I'll hunt them until I can't walk. 

[Fishnfowler]

I'll vouch for the fact that he will hunt them till he can't walk.  He hunted them one day till no one could walk, not even the dogs........

I like huns and pheasant.


That was a great day.  Remember that mulie that sat behind us for 10 minutes before it finally blew out of the sage.  I haven't had a flurry of shooting or a string of misses as unnerving as that volley I unleashed in the gulley.  I must have shot 1/2 a box and didn't cut a feather.  By the time the birds quit flying, I was shaking like I was withdrawing off crack. 

[akirkland]

Pheasant...no questions about it! oh, with my labs of course!

[WSU]

ROOSTER!!!

[RadSav]

In my youth I would have had to say chuckars hands down. 

But now as an aging, fat, lazy, *censored* I'd have to go quail.  You get to shoot more, you miss one once in a while (or two, three...), and they taste one heck of a lot better than pheasant.

[NW-GSP]

I will second that , he was still going and I was dead tired

I'll vouch for the fact that he will hunt them till he can't walk.  He hunted them one day till no one could walk, not even the dogs........

I like huns and pheasant.

I tried to stop at one of each, but those damn grouse kept getting up.



If I had to pick, it would be chukar.  I'll hunt them until I can't walk. 

[Kowsrule30]

Upland quail....


Now my true favorite is grouse.... They a lot dumber....     And the taste!!!!!   

[Echomules]

I'll have to second that vote for Sharptails, love hunting sharptails. Fortunatly where we hunt the roosters get up often enough also.

[JLS]

Chukars.

[Dave Workman]

Liberal turkeys.

Olympia is full of them.
  

[LiveandLearn]

Pheasant

[Chukarhead]

Name not withstanding, my favorite to hunt are quail.

Roosters are just too big and easy, target-wise.  I always feel a little sorry for them when they get up, and I have to slow down A LOT to keep from shooting a doughnut hole through them.  I like chukar because you earn every one.  Huns are pretty and live in very huntable grades, which I appreciate.

Quail are challenging to hit, often live in beautiful places, can be found in a wide variety of habitats, taste delicious, provide tons of opportunity statewide, and provide lots of flushing and pointing opportunities for the dawgs.  I love the annual ritual of relocating the same coveys, lunching in the same old homesteads, and listening to the same owls hooting their disapproval of our presence.  Once I cross the Cascade crest and start dropping after the first weekend of October, I'm assured of quail hunting nearby.  What's not to like?

[jackmaster]

good ole pain in the butt ruff grouse, i winder how many heart attack deaths those little bastges are responsible for 

[JakeLand]

ruff grouse love the woods and they taste great