Quail Hunters?

[westkybanded]

[/url]Any of you guys remember the good ol' days? I used to fill my head with stories from Ruark about hunting with the "Old Man" and dream about times like these:

http://www.realtree.com/hunting/arti...-hunter-s-club

I guess as much as anything, I also miss the ability to hunt vast expanses of ground on a handshake. When I was a boy, I could go out my back door, and had well over 10,000 acres of uninterrupted access. Now, you'd need a dozen leases, and a notebook full of written permission slips.

Those days spent at a half jog trying to keep up with my dad and Doc Phillips in the fields were what really sparked my interest in hunting. Sad to think that it's a kind of hunt that my son will likely never get to experience.

Those of you that are private land owners, how would you handle a couple of guys knocking on the door asking to shoot quail? I've got two pretty well established coveys on my farm, and I just flat-out refuse to shoot them for some reason. I guess in the back of my head, I'm trying to save them for my boy.

[Strut10]

WELCOME to the forums !!!!!

Those of you that are private land owners, how would you handle a couple of guys knocking on the door asking to shoot quail?

I would laugh at them until I peed myself, probably. I'm going on 45 years old and quail were long gone from here before my memory. Pheasants, too, for the most part.

I am not a quail hunter (naturally). But if there were quail on my property and a couple of polite fellows asked to hunt them......chances are they'd be given a day-pass. Yep.

[Tominator]

Very first time I went "bird hunting" with my dad and uncles, and very first time our dog went up on point, a covey of about 15 exploded at my feet.

All I remember was my jaw dropping and the sound of about 5 shots. My uncles looked around asking my dad if anyone got one. My dad looked at me and said "did you even shoot?"

:oops:

Heck no I didn't shoot. :angel1:

I think that would have been about 1977 before the cold and blizzards of 1977 and 78 wiped out populations out.

In the 30+ years since, I've seen a grand total of one or 2 other coveys. And those 2 were basically pen birds the state released in an effort to get the populations back on their feet. That was about 5 years ago, and I haven't seen or heard any since.

[birdhunter39]

the hand shake for hunting land privileges are far and few . I almost lost the land i hunted which was a family members farm because of a hunting partner , and they were going to give my partner rights to hunt the land without me if i wasn't around . my father lost his hunting privilege's on the land he use to hunt because of a new hunting partner , and some people are law suite happy , hunting private land is also becoming a big money maker in some states , while other land owners are saving the wild game for their family members only . And those are some of the reasons i believe why some land owners don't let people on their land . I would feel the same way .