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Wild bobwhite quail
#2726432
02/02/19 10:21 PM
02/02/19 10:21 PM
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Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 1,967 Opelika, AL
AU_trout_bum
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8 point
Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 1,967
Opelika, AL
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Anyone shoot wild quail? I have been jumping several coveys over the last few weekends while walking around to deer hunt. Today I took my shotgun just in case it happens again. Fortunately it did, and after I got over the initial heart attack when they flushed I managed to knock one of them down. There were around a dozen in that covey, but I was excited to get my first wild quail.
Author, Fly Fishing for Redeye Bass: An Adventure Across Southern Waters JacksonKayak Fishing Team --------------------------------------------------- "I do not hunt turkeys because I want to, I hunt them because I have to." - Tom Kelly
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Re: Wild bobwhite quail
[Re: AU_trout_bum]
#2726652
02/03/19 08:59 AM
02/03/19 08:59 AM
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Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 1,967 Opelika, AL
AU_trout_bum
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Opelika, AL
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We have quite a bit. Between jumping that covey and the 9 longbeards that walked through, it was hard to care about deer anymore.
Author, Fly Fishing for Redeye Bass: An Adventure Across Southern Waters JacksonKayak Fishing Team --------------------------------------------------- "I do not hunt turkeys because I want to, I hunt them because I have to." - Tom Kelly
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Re: Wild bobwhite quail
[Re: AU_trout_bum]
#2727359
02/03/19 08:46 PM
02/03/19 08:46 PM
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Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 1,967 Opelika, AL
AU_trout_bum
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Opelika, AL
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It would be a lot of fun with a trained dog. For me it was blind luck, but I enjoyed the he knout of it. Now I’ll probably carry a shotgun every time!
Author, Fly Fishing for Redeye Bass: An Adventure Across Southern Waters JacksonKayak Fishing Team --------------------------------------------------- "I do not hunt turkeys because I want to, I hunt them because I have to." - Tom Kelly
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Re: Wild bobwhite quail
[Re: crenshawco]
#2727825
02/04/19 11:46 AM
02/04/19 11:46 AM
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Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 21,782 USA
Remington270
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 21,782
USA
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I wish I had somewhere with enough of them to hunt them. I cant believe AL still has an open season on them, and on top of that a limit of 8 birds. Chuckie and his buddies are too busy trying to worry about taking away turkey hunting days and bag limits to worry about the ol bobwhite I don't think limiting the wild quail season or lowering the limit would help wild numbers. Is anyone actually killing 8 wild birds per day? And if they are, wouldn't that mean they have a good huntable population?
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Re: Wild bobwhite quail
[Re: Dave_H]
#2728138
02/04/19 04:47 PM
02/04/19 04:47 PM
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Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 1,967 Opelika, AL
AU_trout_bum
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Opelika, AL
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Very nice. it's been a long time since I've jumped wild quail. The change in agriculture and fire-ants have put a hurt on them. A wildlife biologist told me that turkeys can be hard on them. I've heard the same, but to differing degrees. Obviously agriculture change/habitat loss is #1 and nothing else comes close. Next are nest predators like skunks and raccoons and foxes can catch the adults pretty well. Very little impact from coyotes, ants, etc relative to the above.
Author, Fly Fishing for Redeye Bass: An Adventure Across Southern Waters JacksonKayak Fishing Team --------------------------------------------------- "I do not hunt turkeys because I want to, I hunt them because I have to." - Tom Kelly
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Re: Wild bobwhite quail
[Re: AU_trout_bum]
#2728753
02/05/19 09:34 AM
02/05/19 09:34 AM
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Joined: Feb 2008
Posts: 15,650 Montgomery
bamaeyedoc
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
Joined: Feb 2008
Posts: 15,650
Montgomery
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I've seen a few more coveys over the years. The 400 acre place I had in Bullock co for 2 years had 3 different coveys.
Dr. B
AKA: “Dr. B” Aldeer #121 8-3-2000 Proud alum of AUM, UAB, and UA Member of Team 10 Point 2023-2024 ALdeer Deer Contest Winners
Glennis Jerome "Jerry" Harris 1938-2017 UGA Class of 1960 BS/MS Forestry LTJG, USNR
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Re: Wild bobwhite quail
[Re: ozarktroutbum]
#2729467
02/05/19 08:20 PM
02/05/19 08:20 PM
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Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 1,967 Opelika, AL
AU_trout_bum
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When I was in college about 5-6 years ago we spent 6 weeks at the Dixon center (basically in conecuh national forest). We did bird point counts every morning for weeks. Lots and lots of quail down that way. Heard them all over the place. Some guys went and played golf one weekend and mentioned there being a few around at the golf course. The wehle tract was chalked full of quail. We did some stuff in barbour wan and quail were there as well. Mainly long leaf ecosystem with intensive burning though! It makes your run of the mill paper co leased land just pitiful. Very interesting. I wonder if those areas are still that way? I need friends with bird dogs apparently.
Author, Fly Fishing for Redeye Bass: An Adventure Across Southern Waters JacksonKayak Fishing Team --------------------------------------------------- "I do not hunt turkeys because I want to, I hunt them because I have to." - Tom Kelly
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Re: Wild bobwhite quail
[Re: AU_trout_bum]
#2729954
02/06/19 09:54 AM
02/06/19 09:54 AM
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Joined: Jan 2014
Posts: 1,911 huntin the big lease
Turkeymaster
8 point
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8 point
Joined: Jan 2014
Posts: 1,911
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I have a dozen or so coveys that live on our family land and our hunting club in butler county. After I work on the coons this year I hope that doubles
"All is fair in love, War and Turkey Hunting"
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Re: Wild bobwhite quail
[Re: Turkeymaster]
#2730006
02/06/19 10:32 AM
02/06/19 10:32 AM
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Joined: Feb 2019
Posts: 75 Alabama
Duck Engr
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spike
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Posts: 75
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I have a dozen or so coveys that live on our family land and our hunting club in butler county. After I work on the coons this year I hope that doubles We have trapped a truckload of coons the last couple of years after not having time to check traps the previous few years. I'd like to think that's helping us.
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Re: Wild bobwhite quail
[Re: Stob]
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02/22/19 08:52 AM
02/22/19 08:52 AM
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Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 12,100 Sylacauga, AL
poorcountrypreacher
Booner
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Booner
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 12,100
Sylacauga, AL
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Pine tree monoculture has played a large part I would reckon. And not just planting pine trees, but the way they are planted. We had good quail hunting in Perry county until the early 80s. And we were hunting on clear-cut land that had already been replanted, but the key was that it was site prepped with dozers instead of herbicides. The quail didn't disappear until they started using herbicides. I am not making a wild claim that herbicides killed the quail; they just didn't regenerate weeds and grass the way mechanical disturbance of the soil did. I don't think it's any great mystery what happened to the quail - it is entirely due to habitat changes. People with good habitat still have them. You won't get them back on a few hundred well managed acres either; it takes big sections of land that are at least decent for them.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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