Open chokes (cyl/ ic) and small shot, I like 7.5s, are good quail medicine. You'll need to head south and/ or west to find them depending on what variety you want to hunt.:cheers:
I am looking for some info on getting started in quail hunting. Chokes used gauge, shot sizes and just a good starting point on where to go. The only quail I have ever shot was over my labs while doing some bird work. Any help appreciated, thanx in advanced.
Come to Kansas, I'll trade you a good quail hunt for a SD pheasant hunt!
Echo that offer :cheers: Plus you can hunt over a classier looking dog (Setter v GSP lol)
Know a few places you can find some of the time all 3 species on the same field. Not 100% consistently but regular enough.
Mark - what choke do you use on pheasants? And does it change from fall to winter hunting?
Echo that offer :cheers: Plus you can hunt over a classier looking dog (Setter v GSP lol)
Know a few places you can find some of the time all 3 species on the same field. Not 100% consistently but regular enough.
Echo that offer :cheers: Plus you can hunt over a classier looking dog (Setter v GSP lol)
Know a few places you can find some of the time all 3 species on the same field. Not 100% consistently but regular enough.
Are you talking quail, pheasant, and chicken or are there some gambles quail in Kansas I don't know about? I know there are bobs and a few blue quail right?
Quail pheasant and greater prairie chicken.
On the other hand .....
In SW KS - (it's now illegal to shoot prairie chickens in the SW Zone)
If you are lucky - you could get into scaled quail, bobs, pheasants, and lesser prairie chickens on the same place/general area. I cant think of a day I ever did it in the same hunt (found all 4), but did have a property I could hunt where I found all 4 but on different days, could reliably find 3 of 4 if I tried hard in very very close proximity. The PC's always gave me the slip. Has taken me a # of years to somewhat figure out how to hunt them with a dog late in the season, but it's still hard and requires a lot of walking.
Early season Chicken hunts it's always too hot.
Quail pheasant and greater prairie chicken.
On the other hand .....
In SW KS - (it's now illegal to shoot prairie chickens in the SW Zone)
If you are lucky - you could get into scaled quail, bobs, pheasants, and lesser prairie chickens on the same place/general area. I cant think of a day I ever did it in the same hunt (found all 4), but did have a property I could hunt where I found all 4 but on different days, could reliably find 3 of 4 if I tried hard in very very close proximity. The PC's always gave me the slip. Has taken me a # of years to somewhat figure out how to hunt them with a dog late in the season, but it's still hard and requires a lot of walking.
Early season Chicken hunts it's always too hot.