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Joined: Dec 2018
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8 point
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That is on the bucket list. Looks like a great hunt and glad to see you shooting a real shotgun. We still have several coveys on my place and I burn and try to improve the habitat but doubt I will ever have a truly huntable population. Quail in Alabama have a whole lot of things working against them.
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Freak of Nature
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Very cool. Only thing cooler would be if this was in Bama!
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The first time I went quail hunting in Texas we found 18 coveys before lunch
We only shot covey rises and killed 63 between 5 of us that day. I was hooked
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I remember as a kid you could bust a covey of quail in N Bama every 300 yards. We had great bird dogs. This was in the seventies. No more row crops or fence lines anymore. Coyotes and more predators. And then they disappeared in the eighties
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Fancy
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Habitat changes are why most of AL don’t have the quail populations they used to. It’s not just a predator issue. There’s more quail in areas with better habitat. There’s plenty of predators in TX and every other state they are thriving in.
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Booner
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Booner
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Congrats on a great trip! The last time I got any wild quail was on a trip to OK. It wasn't nearly as good as the outfitter said it would be, but we killed a few.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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4 point
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That looks like a great trip Matt. I have never seen a scaled quail before.
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14 point
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Place we turkey hunted north of abeline was covered up with quail
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8 point
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I might be a little jelly. Closest I get is why my squirrel dog gets birdy and we ease up on a woodcock.
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Freak of Nature
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Saw a bunch of quail on my last deer hunting trip to Texas.
Need to bring a shotgun on my next trip.
Dying ain't much of a living boy...Josey Wales
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