Quail Hunting
Quail Habitat
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A couple of pasture points on singles. The crop field is on the other side of the drainage and pictured here is the pasture side.
This farm is a 320 acre piece of a larger lease bordered by road on three sides and a property line fence on the fourth. This covey has existed/reproduced itself on this farm for the current to these pictures and previous six years with six years ago when Jason first discovered this particular covey. The covey from year to year as well as singles points post covey flush occupied an area of less than 5 square acres. To find any such single 5 acre spot within a 320 acres piece and have several such spots on this larger 2,700 acre upland bird unit map sheet is what makes this a self guided rather than a guided hunt. It does not take long for such covey spots to add up over the years. For most by the third year they have more coveys marked on their maps than time on any hunt to cover. All the more valuable when working that next first season pup. Even with prior knowledge of past covey finds Jason's best one day performance in this one upland bird unit has been 5 coveys to as little as 3. The coveys persist not just due to habitat, but also that Jason harvested just two quail this year from this covey in excess of 15+ birds and just 4 from the entire 2,700 upland bird unit on that day. Jason, like most of our upland bird hunters, have knowledge of several such locations and rotate through the season never hunting any covey to extinction. He also cares nothing for wild flush, hunter jumped or any other quail shot presentation than from under dog point. This last point about self guided hunters that pay to hunt compared by another member to knock-on-door hunters is that a knock-on-door hunter is the same as the Kansas WIHA hunter. Those hunters seek to take all they can to beat the other guy who they know will not stop shooting any chance they have. |
