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Other Hunting => Upland Birds => Topic started by: rougheye on October 05, 2008, 04:35:29 PM

Title: Anybody go chukar/quail hunting
Post by: rougheye on October 05, 2008, 04:35:29 PM: Just wondering if anyone got out . Decided not to go because of all the baby quail im seeing around the house .
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Post by: fluentvoo on October 05, 2008, 06:51:00 PM: Where you at? I got out opening day, numbers were good, shot a box of shells. Didn't go down low for quail, stayed up high for chuk's. Friend and his son went in the columbia basin today, he said the numbers were good as well.
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Post by: Yummy and Tasty Animal on October 05, 2008, 10:08:58 PM: where did you all go??? i was out there for 3 hours this weekend and only saw 6 quail.
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Post by: andrew_12gauge on October 05, 2008, 10:19:15 PM: when i was up in the umptanum in sept for my dads sheep hunt there were chuckar all over the place but i havent gotten up to washington to hunt them yet and i doubt i will this year but ill probably try some down here
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Post by: eburghunter on October 06, 2008, 07:23:35 PM: I got 5 chukar today :IBCOOL:
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Post by: ecnclan on October 07, 2008, 07:19:39 PM: Went fishing with my daughter Monday. The fishing was less than stellar so we decided to take a short walk and see if we could find a deaf and dumb quail. No quail but in 1/2 mile we kicked up around 15 pheasants all but two were roosters. Kind of looking forward to later this month! :drool:
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Post by: boneaddict on October 07, 2008, 07:30:59 PM: Dang dude. Thats incredible for this year.
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Post by: ecnclan on October 07, 2008, 07:37:59 PM: This will be my first year hunting pheasant in WA but I've hunted them in California and SE Idaho and I've never seen anything like it.
Title: Re: Anybody go chukar/quail hunting
Post by: eburghunter on October 09, 2008, 05:58:19 PM: I went back out today to a couple canyons about a mile from my house and shot 2 quail and 2 huns it was the same draw that i have been seeing chukar in also. nice little water hole
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Post by: 270Shooter on October 09, 2008, 06:17:51 PM: I went out on the opener and shot four quail, would have got some more but I missed alot :(
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Post by: fluentvoo on October 12, 2008, 03:08:09 PM: picked these up yesterday, no coveys up high all day, had to sidestep all day at mid elevation. Saw 5 mulies, 2 were bucks. Saw 2 guys glassing from a cliff, with a buck and 2 does directly below them. I don't think they could see them... or maybe they wanted a bigger buck.

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Title: Re: Anybody go chukar/quail hunting
Post by: GreenHunter on October 13, 2008, 03:46:43 PM: My buddy and I went out on opening day and hiked our a$$es off in the yakima canyon looking for chukar. Didn't see a single one but killed a rabbit.

The next day we went to the reservation and jumped into a ton of quail. That was a lot of fun but we only ended up with 2. We are still getting used to how the quail use the dense cover. It also didn't make it easier that we were without a bird dog.
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Post by: 10Key on October 13, 2008, 04:34:07 PM: Hit the Res up for quail/pheasant on Sunday the 12th. Birds were few and far between, especially for guys w/o a dog. We ended up going down by the Yak on State ground and got into three small covies, missing all of them.
Title: Re: Anybody go chukar/quail hunting
Post by: Professor Chaos on October 13, 2008, 09:09:03 PM: yeah it seemed like there was a very poor hatch for pheasants and quail on the yakima res this year. :'(