collapse

Advertisement


Author Topic: If you could hunt only one upland bird...  (Read 14378 times)

Offline fethrduster

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Scout
  • ****
  • Join Date: Jun 2009
  • Posts: 451
  • Location: Tacoma
    • Mark Larson Gun Art
If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« 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.

Offline buglebuster

  • ELKOHOLIC
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2011
  • Posts: 3412
  • Location: yakima
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2012, 06:53:04 PM »
i do love chukar hunting but i would have to choose pheasant.

Offline AWS

  • Trade Count: (+2)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Dec 2007
  • Posts: 1838
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #2 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.
After the first shot the rest are just noise.

Make mine a Minaska

Offline shoot-em-dead

  • non-yar
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jan 2009
  • Posts: 2533
  • Location: yacolt
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #3 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.
This closet is taken- go find your own

Offline Stilly bay

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jul 2010
  • Posts: 1416
  • ELITIST WEST SIDE DITCH PARROT HUNTER
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #4 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.
"Love the dogs before loving the hunt; love the hunt for the dogs." - Ben O. Williams

“It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.”
― Jim Harrison

Offline bobcat

  • Global Moderator
  • Trade Count: (+14)
  • Legend
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2007
  • Posts: 38900
  • Location: Rochester
    • robert68
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #5 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.


Offline Naches Sportsman

  • Political & Covid-19 Topics
  • Trade Count: (+4)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Aug 2010
  • Posts: 2687
  • Location: Idaho
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #6 on: June 15, 2012, 09:13:11 PM »
Chukar. It is friken fun running around steep hills for them :chuckle: :bash:.

Offline BLR 243

  • Political & Covid-19 Topics
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Nov 2009
  • Posts: 539
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #7 on: June 15, 2012, 09:42:19 PM »
peasants.

Offline Jason

  • Political & Covid-19 Topics
  • Trade Count: (+2)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jun 2008
  • Posts: 3526
  • Location: Camas
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #8 on: June 15, 2012, 10:07:55 PM »
Grouse :tup:

Offline seth30

  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Old Salt
  • ******
  • Join Date: Jul 2009
  • Posts: 6411
  • Location: Whidbey Island
  • It's time to HUNT!
Rather be dead than cool.
Kurt Cobain

Offline KFhunter

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Legend
  • ******
  • Join Date: Jan 2011
  • Posts: 34514
  • Location: NE Corner
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #10 on: June 15, 2012, 10:28:43 PM »
grouse
 
with a britt

Offline 257 Wby Mag

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (-1)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Sep 2007
  • Posts: 1974
  • Location: Chehalis
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #11 on: June 15, 2012, 10:32:46 PM »
Pheasant..... with a GSP
Tod Riechert fan club.

Offline BLR 243

  • Political & Covid-19 Topics
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Nov 2009
  • Posts: 539
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #12 on: June 15, 2012, 10:40:53 PM »
gps is that so u can find your truck ?

Offline Chukar

  • Political & Covid-19 Topics
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Hunter
  • ***
  • Join Date: Dec 2008
  • Posts: 158
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #13 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.

Offline sirfunkeybut

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Sep 2009
  • Posts: 1308
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #14 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:

Offline MADMAX

  • Trade Count: (+15)
  • Old Salt
  • ******
  • Join Date: May 2007
  • Posts: 7296
  • Location: Kitsap
  • I like big bucks and I can not lie
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #15 on: June 16, 2012, 06:19:49 AM »
Grouse
I Ain't Captain Walker.
I'm The Guy Who Carries Mr. Dead In His Pocket


What would life be without the thrill of the hunt ?

Offline Wacenturion

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (-1)
  • Old Salt
  • ******
  • Join Date: Apr 2008
  • Posts: 6040
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #16 on: June 16, 2012, 09:44:24 AM »
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:
"About the time you realize that your father was a smart man, you have a teenager telling you just how stupid you are."

Offline 10Key

  • Political & Covid-19 Topics
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Oct 2007
  • Posts: 990
  • Location: Bothell
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #17 on: June 16, 2012, 09:50:39 AM »
Quail in the desert for me and my Britt

Offline shedcrazy

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jul 2010
  • Posts: 732
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #18 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!

Offline Fishnfowler

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Scout
  • ****
  • Join Date: Mar 2012
  • Posts: 450
  • Location: Cle Elum
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #19 on: June 16, 2012, 10:22:58 AM »
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. 






Offline Stilly bay

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jul 2010
  • Posts: 1416
  • ELITIST WEST SIDE DITCH PARROT HUNTER
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #20 on: June 16, 2012, 11:52:18 AM »
Now thats a proper mixed bag!
"Love the dogs before loving the hunt; love the hunt for the dogs." - Ben O. Williams

“It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.”
― Jim Harrison

Offline ellensburgpo

  • Trade Count: (+3)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2008
  • Posts: 1799
  • Location: Dry Side/Right Side
  • Groups: DU, Delta Waterfowl, NWTF
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #21 on: June 16, 2012, 12:47:56 PM »
KCCO

 The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929

Online JimmyHoffa

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+2)
  • Explorer
  • ******
  • Join Date: Sep 2010
  • Posts: 14351
  • Location: 150 Years Too Late
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #22 on: June 16, 2012, 12:52:07 PM »
I would have to say grouse.

Offline ing

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Feb 2009
  • Posts: 599
  • Location: WA
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #23 on: June 16, 2012, 01:49:04 PM »
Blue grouse hands down!!! Best tasting game bird ever....

Offline fethrduster

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Scout
  • ****
  • Join Date: Jun 2009
  • Posts: 451
  • Location: Tacoma
    • Mark Larson Gun Art
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #24 on: June 16, 2012, 06:52:11 PM »
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. 







You're really speaking my language! :tup:

Offline Bigluke1981

  • Political & Covid-19 Topics
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Feb 2011
  • Posts: 596
  • Location: King county
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #25 on: June 16, 2012, 10:15:54 PM »
Quail for me!

Offline Lee Root

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Hunter
  • ***
  • Join Date: Aug 2007
  • Posts: 173
  • Location: Omak
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #26 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. 







Offline kyle78

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Hunter
  • ***
  • Join Date: Sep 2011
  • Posts: 155
  • Location: cashmere
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #27 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.

Offline Sumpnneedskillin

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2009
  • Posts: 1614
  • Location: Pomeroy WA
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #28 on: June 18, 2012, 04:52:40 PM »
Mountain Quail
What's the most dangerous thing said in the US Navy? -- A Chief Petty Officer saying "Watch this s$%^!!"

"I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy.'"
President John F. Kennedy

Offline Mr56Jeep

  • Jack of all trades
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Hunter
  • ***
  • Join Date: Sep 2008
  • Posts: 218
  • Location: Down Wind
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #29 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.

Offline ORCA_SIX

  • RLTW!
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Scout
  • ****
  • Join Date: Mar 2011
  • Posts: 456
  • Location: Snohomish, WA
  • Bring out your dead!
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #30 on: June 19, 2012, 11:36:11 AM »
Pheasants - with my German Wirehaired Pointer
“If a man’s life is not long enough, a dog’s is even shorter and anything you can do to make that fuller is worthwhile"

"Be worthy of your game"

George Bird Evans

Offline dukethedog

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Tracker
  • **
  • Join Date: Nov 2011
  • Posts: 50
  • Location: Snoqualmie Pass
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #31 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.






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. 







Offline Fishnfowler

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Scout
  • ****
  • Join Date: Mar 2012
  • Posts: 450
  • Location: Cle Elum
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #32 on: June 22, 2012, 09:43:24 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. 

Offline akirkland

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Apr 2011
  • Posts: 1409
  • Location: Yelm, Wa
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #33 on: June 23, 2012, 10:15:22 AM »
Pheasant...no questions about it! oh, with my labs of course!

Offline WSU

  • Political & Covid-19 Topics
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Old Salt
  • ******
  • Join Date: Mar 2009
  • Posts: 5381
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #34 on: June 26, 2012, 04:15:50 PM »
ROOSTER!!!

Offline RadSav

  • Political & Covid-19 Topics
  • Trade Count: (+5)
  • Explorer
  • ******
  • Join Date: Jun 2011
  • Posts: 11342
  • Location: Vancouver
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #35 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.
He asked, Do you ever give a short simple answer?  I replied, "Nope."

Offline NW-GSP

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Apr 2009
  • Posts: 2727
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #36 on: June 26, 2012, 06:51:22 PM »
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. 







Offline Kowsrule30

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Nov 2009
  • Posts: 3044
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #37 on: June 27, 2012, 12:16:36 AM »
Upland quail....


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

Offline Echomules

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Hunter
  • ***
  • Join Date: Jul 2008
  • Posts: 140
  • Location: Snohomish County
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #38 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.




Offline JLS

  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Nov 2010
  • Posts: 4622
  • Location: In my last tracks.....
  • Groups: Support the LWCF!
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #39 on: July 18, 2012, 04:59:13 PM »
Chukars.
Matthew 7:13-14

Offline Dave Workman

  • Forum Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Aug 2008
  • Posts: 2925
  • Location: In the woods, by the big tree
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #40 on: July 18, 2012, 05:32:47 PM »
Liberal turkeys.

Olympia is full of them.
 :IBCOOL:  :chuckle:
"The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted." - D.H. Lawrence

Offline LiveandLearn

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Hunter
  • ***
  • Join Date: Jul 2012
  • Posts: 105
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #41 on: July 18, 2012, 07:07:56 PM »
Pheasant

Offline Chukarhead

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Hunter
  • ***
  • Join Date: Sep 2011
  • Posts: 179
  • Location: SWWA
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #42 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?

Offline jackmaster

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Old Salt
  • ******
  • Join Date: Nov 2010
  • Posts: 7011
  • Location: graham
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #43 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:
my grandpa always said "if it aint broke dont fix it"

Offline JakeLand

  • WA State Trappers Association
  • Trade Count: (+27)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Oct 2011
  • Posts: 4105
  • Location: Wet side
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #44 on: July 26, 2012, 09:44:10 PM »
ruff grouse love the woods and they taste great

Offline Shoffy

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Hunter
  • ***
  • Join Date: Jan 2011
  • Posts: 129
  • Location: Sumner, WA
Re: If you could hunt only one upland bird...
« Reply #45 on: July 27, 2012, 12:40:23 PM »
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. 







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

 


* Advertisement

* Recent Topics

Let’s see your best Washington buck by abhold87
[Today at 12:03:27 PM]


Springer Fishing Opportunity 3/29 & 3/30 by xXLojackXx
[Today at 11:47:13 AM]


Bearpaw Season - Spring 2024 by bearpaw
[Today at 11:45:41 AM]


Walked a cougar down by Rainier10
[Today at 11:17:49 AM]


SB 5444 signed by Inslee on 03/26 Takes Effect on 06/06/24 by hughjorgan
[Today at 09:03:26 AM]


Springer 2024 Columbia River by WSU
[Today at 08:31:10 AM]


Average by lhrbull
[Today at 07:31:56 AM]


CVA optima V2 LR tapped hole for front sight by Remdawg
[Today at 07:09:22 AM]


Which 12” boat trailer tires? by timberhunter
[Yesterday at 08:22:18 PM]


Lowest power 22 round? by JakeLand
[Yesterday at 08:06:13 PM]

SimplePortal 2.3.7 © 2008-2024, SimplePortal