Hunting Washington Forum
Other Hunting => Upland Birds => Topic started by: asmith on October 10, 2016, 01:52:01 PM
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I'm starting to get really bummed out. This is my 1 year old dogs first upland season and I can't find the quail. Been out 3 times now to my normal 3 spots and even a couple new ones and not a single bird seen. My dog is getting so bored she starts to bounce around like a deer and chase tweet birds, lol. She is even pointing at the ghosts of birds past.
But on a good note, it has been a great time to get out with her. Watching her work, learning her goods and bads as well as her learning my boundaries for her. It really is a great time all these miles we've done in only a few outings. I just hope I can get her on some birds soon, to make it all worth while and see how she acts with wild birds. I hope everyone else is having a good season so far.
This is GG ghost pointing, lol.
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My pups first year, she held point on a clump of cattails for over a minute until I could wade up to and ahead of her to kick it out. I was positive a rooster was ready to explode. Out popped a tweety bird. I wanted to congratulate her on a solid point and not creeping, but I couldn't enforce a tweety bird point, lol.
I was seeing some good numbers on the quail this year during my archery opener. Hopefully, you get into them soon.
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Not sure what direction you are hunting out of Davenport, but I've noticed the same thing in Lincoln County. I hunted it twice already and was only able to turn up two coveys of quail and one covey of Huns. All three of the coveys were small, 4-6 birds. There obviously was an issue with chick survival.
Edit: Pretty looking dog you have there.
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Man i just hunted Lincoln county and found lots of quail and always do...no huns yet but im sure i will. keep lookin!
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I've been hunting to the west and south of davenport. I have my normal spots that have produced decent numbers the past several years, but nothing yet. I'll just keep trying. Maybe all the deer hunters have kept them pushed back.
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The last few years my quail honey hole has dried up, not in the same zip code but close enough. Odd thing is in town there are quail everywhere
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Odd thing is in town there are quail everywhere
Nothing odd, they have water, food, and shelter in town!