Hunt Recommendations

The map image below is a sanitized sample and a segment of one of our upland bird hunting units representing land available to hunt in black.

The purpose of this illustration is how we take care of the first year member/hunter to ensure he gets as good of a start as possible.

This map segment is from a region that has high pheasant and low quail population densities. Lease 29 (1,600 acres) may appeal to the self guided hunter as it is large and would certainly provide a lot of hunting. Number 29 while in a pheasant predominate land unit happens to be a very good deer spot. Farms 3 and 4 may be less appealing as they are each a 1/4 section or a 160 acres with good pheasant habitat and more hunting that #29. And the point of this discussion is that larger acreage is not always a better hunt.

How we would address this one unit for the new member is that he has all of it available to hunt, however we would not recommend spending time on property 29. Property 29 is large, it holds a couple of coveys and rarely a pheasant. Most of the other properties highlighted on this map sheet such as 5, 4, 2, 21, 27 and 28 are excellent tall grass and brush draw pheasant spots along side row crop fields. The point we are getting to is if traveling to this unit, do so for the best resource it provides and that is pheasant hunts. Quail will be encountered in this unit, however if wanting to go after quail we have better regions and upland bird units with more quail habitat in smaller concentrated areas than this one.

To hunt lease 29 would be a four hour walk traveling as straight of a line as possible along the main north-south running drainage on this one tract. To hunt all the side branches would take more than a day. The dog power required to cover all that ground would probably produce two coveys while more would be passed for lack of coverage.

What we do is get the bird hunter to the right habitat within the right region of the state for his bird of preference.