re: Late Season Training - English Pointers

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and turkeys, turkeys will frick up some baby quail...

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From what I've been told, and this could be wrong, it is not that big of a problem till you get south of Chattanooga. Why that is I have no idea, and it may just be a quail. As the guy who told it to me was talking about quail #s, so that kinda makes sense. But I don't know, haven't been quail hunting in over 4 years, and that was Oklahoma.

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The problem with released birds is survivability... it just doesn't work

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hey don't come in here and be pissin on my parade.

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Well congrads on moving back to the south.
you happy about the move?

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The first dog that you had a picture of, is he/she still around?

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I was pretty excited till I drove from LC to BR two Fridays ago around 5.. that was a helluva reality check, as in I'm gonna be looking at property in P-Ville, near Gonzales, somewhere near river road.. worst comes to worst I'll rent something last minutes till I find something that I can live with.. probably move to El Cid

Yup, still kicking. Last one of his litter, his other brother we kept died of stomach cancer a couple of years ago, his sister ate some crazy arse flower and died about 7-8 years ago and his other brother died this summer of old age. There can be only one..

I'm gonna breed his son, (andy), with jenny. I got Andy and brothers baby batter frozen up down at LSU and VT, Andy's hunting skills mixed with Jenny's athleticism is gonna make for a pretty awesome bird dog.

Jenny is obsessed with getting high on top of things to survey stuff.. she is pretty nuts.

If they can make it a week they stand a decent chance. I think they try to release before the raptors migrate south. If the new birds can find established birds their survival goes up a lot...

Quail numbers were large in the 60 & 70's when there were 40 acre farms, limited bug and weedkiller being sprayed, raptors were being shot, trappers were running traps, etc.

quail need edges, not much in the way of edges on a 640 acre field...

We have some of the best grouse hunting in the country uo here until my dad's buddy made some deal with the state of Tennessee wildlife dept to trade grouse for elk.. we got the short end of the stick on that one

What do grouse taste like?

I don't even know if I could identify a grouse.

Great looking hounds. Make me miss my dad's. There are a couple of coveys still around where I live south of laffy. With all the shitty housing developments going up around here, they won't survive much longer.

my grandpa has one named bandit right now. he buries everything. we give him a football, he buries it. he steals gloves and buries them

my grandpa has a bunch of doves. he occasionally lets them out and they always come back

one time we were working in the yard, and we see bandit walking to his "dig site" with a dove in his mouth.

he puts it on the ground and starts to dig. the dove starts walking back to it's pen.

bandit stops digging and goes to the dove and gently picks it up and brings it back. he puts it down and starts digging again

rinse and repeat until he tried burying the dove. we were dying laughing. surprised the dove wasnt more scared. we just grabbed him and put him back in the pen

don't forget the ever changing habitat, farming practices and timber practices have been devastating to quail.

also I know there was one study that actually had footage of armadillos raiding quail nests.

and hogs..... hogs in many areas are the death knell for quail.

but - the numbers really started to plummet when.

farming EDGE TO EDGE and harvesting every sq inch.
the rise of the coyote, rise of armadillos, rise of hogs....

and lets not even start on feral cats.