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Other Hunting => Upland Birds => Topic started by: fethrduster on June 15, 2012, 06:40:18 PM

Title: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
Post by: fethrduster on June 15, 2012, 06:40:18 PM: What would it be? Pheasants? Grouse? Chukars? Huns? Quail? Chupacabras?

It's tough to narrow it down to only one, but for me it would be chukars, for the challenge and because they are unbeatable table fare as well. A friend of mine has a second home in central OR, and he hunts them every week. That is the life.
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Post by: buglebuster on June 15, 2012, 06:53:04 PM: i do love chukar hunting but i would have to choose pheasant.
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Post by: AWS on June 15, 2012, 06:56:02 PM: I love to hunt pheasants with pointers but if I had to choose it would be sharptails, nothing like getting into a big flock of them, big birds boiling out everywhere.
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Post by: shoot-em-dead on June 15, 2012, 06:59:42 PM: I hope WDFW doesn't see this. We will have to choose next year. :bash: :chuckle: :chuckle: I like hunting pheasant but I would pick quail- they just taste good.
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Post by: Stilly bay on June 15, 2012, 07:42:41 PM: grouse with a pointing dog, always been my favorite always will... grouse with a flushing dog or retriever would be a close second.
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Post by: bobcat on June 15, 2012, 08:01:24 PM: If I had to choose, I would choose blue grouse, or as they're calling them now- dusky grouse. I like pheasant and chukar hunting too, but I'll take grouse over them because they're native. Plus I love hunting in the places that they call home. With a dog, or without is fine with me.
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Post by: Naches Sportsman on June 15, 2012, 09:13:11 PM: Chukar. It is friken fun running around steep hills for them :chuckle: :bash:.
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Post by: BLR 243 on June 15, 2012, 09:42:19 PM: peasants.
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Post by: Jason on June 15, 2012, 10:07:55 PM: Grouse :tup:
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Post by: seth30 on June 15, 2012, 10:10:53 PM: Quote from: Jason on June 15, 2012, 10:07:55 PM
Grouse :tup:
:yeah:
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Post by: KFhunter on June 15, 2012, 10:28:43 PM: grouse

with a britt
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Post by: 257 Wby Mag on June 15, 2012, 10:32:46 PM: Pheasant..... with a GSP
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Post by: BLR 243 on June 15, 2012, 10:40:53 PM: gps is that so u can find your truck ?
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Post by: Chukar on June 15, 2012, 10:51:32 PM: It's The Chukar
Most public land minus ducks to be had is Chukar land. And typically absent of dudes cause it's straight up and dreadful down. You wanna get "away"? Go hunt Chukar.
I was simply going to post a shot of one but I am so profoundly idiotic in posting pictures I chimed in with verbiage.
Lost my bird dog.
When I recover I'm Gettin a Setter. And Goin Chukar walking.
I mean hunting.
Everything else is to simple.
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Post by: sirfunkeybut on June 16, 2012, 05:56:48 AM: Quail for me, I never can locate pheasant and Really don't prefer going to the top of a hill for a couple shots at chukar just to turn around walk back to the bottom. Might be different this year though if my dog is ready :tup:
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Post by: MADMAX on June 16, 2012, 06:19:49 AM: Grouse
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Post by: Wacenturion on June 16, 2012, 09:44:24 AM: Quote from: shoot-em-dead on June 15, 2012, 06:59:42 PM
I hope WDFW doesn't see this. We will have to choose next year. :bash: :chuckle: :chuckle: I like hunting pheasant but I would pick quail- they just taste good.

Yeah and then the following years they will have units you apply for and build points. :chuckle:
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Post by: 10Key on June 16, 2012, 09:50:39 AM: Quail in the desert for me and my Britt
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Post by: shedcrazy on June 16, 2012, 10:22:08 AM: Well since grouse isn't an upland bird, that one is free :chuckle: :chuckle: But I would have to say pheasant. I love the cackling flush of a rooster!
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Post by: Fishnfowler on June 16, 2012, 10:22:58 AM: I tried to stop at one of each, but those damn grouse kept getting up.

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

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Post by: Stilly bay on June 16, 2012, 11:52:18 AM: Now thats a proper mixed bag!
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Post by: ellensburgpo on June 16, 2012, 12:47:56 PM: Quote from: 257 Wby Mag on June 15, 2012, 10:32:46 PM
Pheasant..... with a GSP

X2
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Post by: JimmyHoffa on June 16, 2012, 12:52:07 PM: I would have to say grouse.
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Post by: ing on June 16, 2012, 01:49:04 PM: Blue grouse hands down!!! Best tasting game bird ever....
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Post by: fethrduster on June 16, 2012, 06:52:11 PM: Quote from: Fishnfowler on June 16, 2012, 10:22:58 AM
I tried to stop at one of each, but those damn grouse kept getting up.

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

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You're really speaking my language! :tup:
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Post by: Bigluke1981 on June 16, 2012, 10:15:54 PM: Quail for me!
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Post by: Lee Root on June 17, 2012, 04:52:35 PM: Chukars first, then since I find Huns in with them, Huns. Catching coveys of quail in the sage is also a riot. The real thrill, however, is watching the dogs work.

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Post by: kyle78 on June 18, 2012, 04:21:26 PM: I grew up hunting quail so they are my favorite. I just started hunting pheasant a few years ago, so they are gaining ground. In the places I hunt I can usually tag a couple of each.
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Post by: Sumpnneedskillin on June 18, 2012, 04:52:40 PM: Mountain Quail
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Post by: Mr56Jeep on June 19, 2012, 07:37:17 AM: Do Snipe count? My GSP points them and they hold so nice. Shot with a 20 gauge O/U, I do enjoy that.

If that dosent count, then I'd say it is more about the dog than the particular birds. If the dog is working well and I'm shooting well, I could shoot starlings and be happy.
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Post by: ORCA_SIX on June 19, 2012, 11:36:11 AM: Pheasants - with my German Wirehaired Pointer
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Post by: dukethedog on June 22, 2012, 07:47:48 PM: 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.

Quote from: Fishnfowler on June 16, 2012, 10:22:58 AM
I tried to stop at one of each, but those damn grouse kept getting up.

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

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Post by: Fishnfowler on June 22, 2012, 09:43:24 PM: Quote from: dukethedog on June 22, 2012, 07:47:48 PM
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.
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Post by: akirkland on June 23, 2012, 10:15:22 AM: Pheasant...no questions about it! oh, with my labs of course!
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Post by: WSU on June 26, 2012, 04:15:50 PM: ROOSTER!!!
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Post by: RadSav on June 26, 2012, 04:33:06 PM: 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.
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Post by: NW-GSP on June 26, 2012, 06:51:22 PM: I will second that , he was still going and I was dead tired

Quote from: dukethedog on June 22, 2012, 07:47:48 PM
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.

Quote from: Fishnfowler on June 16, 2012, 10:22:58 AM
I tried to stop at one of each, but those damn grouse kept getting up.

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

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Post by: Kowsrule30 on June 27, 2012, 12:16:36 AM: Upland quail....

Now my true favorite is grouse.... They a lot dumber.... :chuckle: And the taste!!!!!
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Post by: Echomules on July 18, 2012, 04:15:31 PM: I'll have to second that vote for Sharptails, love hunting sharptails. Fortunatly where we hunt the roosters get up often enough also.

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Post by: JLS on July 18, 2012, 04:59:13 PM: Chukars.
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Post by: Dave Workman on July 18, 2012, 05:32:47 PM: Liberal turkeys.

Olympia is full of them.
:IBCOOL: :chuckle:
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Post by: LiveandLearn on July 18, 2012, 07:07:56 PM: Pheasant
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Post by: Chukarhead on July 23, 2012, 10:22:00 AM: 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?
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Post by: jackmaster on July 23, 2012, 10:23:32 AM: good ole pain in the butt ruff grouse, i winder how many heart attack deaths those little bastges are responsible for :chuckle:
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Post by: JakeLand on July 26, 2012, 09:44:10 PM: ruff grouse love the woods and they taste great
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Post by: Shoffy on July 27, 2012, 12:40:23 PM: Quote from: Fishnfowler on June 16, 2012, 10:22:58 AM
I tried to stop at one of each, but those damn grouse kept getting up.

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

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That's awesome! I never would have thought chukar and quail would be in the same are as ruffed grouse??
Also, looks like a Browning BPS in the background. Good gun