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Just ended my trip to Montana, overall it was pretty good. Personally I saw fairly good pheasant numbers. Nowhere near the grouse I saw last year, but still quite a few. Saw my first covey of Huns. ( they flushed out into an overgrazed pasture and flushed wild again then with rain messing up my...

Got a magnum and a regular. Both are great, but they are heavy. Most of the time I carry a o/u 20 but late season pheasant I’ll break out the 1100 and lug it lol.

I’ve personally seen young birds here in western Ok about 2 weeks ago that probably wouldn’t have been seen in August surveys and I’ve heard a lot of similar stories. Hoping its better than it looked.

What about around Lewistown Mt

Awesome photos looks like an amazing trip

I’ve hunted sw Nebraska and got pheasants, quail and at least saw either chickens or sharps. Most likely chickens but I can’t tell the difference unless I’m close. These flew over me in a corn field and landed out in stubble. I think your out of luck on Quail in Mt.

I live to hunt birds , but I also grew up on a farm / ranch and now do that on the side. Drought is tough we went through it in Oklahoma from about 09 to 13 or 14. Ponds went dry lakes went dry, we had fields where the grass didn’t just stop growing it died out completely. If emergency baling...

im Not trying to say it’s not dry if it is. i was just hoping for farmers ranchers and the birds that they were getting some of the rains we were blessed with. Although its not looking like our quail situation in western ok is anything to get excited about. Even with the great summer rains.

I’m surprised I thought Kansas was getting some good rains this summer. It’s not on the drought monitor. We’ve had a wet summer here inOk and every time I look at the radar it looks like Kansas is getting it good too.

What are some other sites you like, I’ve tied a few and to me this one is pretty good. It’s pretty active. Ive come to realize there’s gonna be more friction on forums. People are more cordial face to face. But I love discussing bird hunting so some griping isn’t going to stop me.

of the birds I’ve tried Blues are easily the best. No tips or tricks you can just fry em up. about any mountain range in the west

I have hunted blue grouse in NM, I have not got them figured out. Last year the area I hunted was pretty dry compared to the year before. I got skunked last year. I did find a few the year before.

Hal and Fern Cooper is North west of Woodward then Cimarron Hills and Cimarron Bluff North east. Cooper is the biggest at about 17000 acres. There’s also some walk in in the area. I haven’t hunted them myself yet.

Do you find chukar and Huns in Wyoming? I’d love to try them but with my job its hard to get to Idaho or Nevada during the season

I’m hopeful i did see several decent coveys on my farm even after the big freeze. There was some carryover and it’s been a pretty good summer.

I have no idea on the quail here in Ok. I haven’t seen a lot this summer. But the cover is thick. And there have been a few summers I saw them everywhere then the season was crap.

I’ve tried blues a couple times, only got 1. I’m a prairie hunter and I haven’t got the mountain birds figured out. But success or not it’s always a great trip just getting into the mountains

Awesome, i‘ll probably do the same when I retire. Until then I’ll keep grabbing all the free time I can for trips. Hopefully Canada is open. I’d love to hear about all your trips but especially the Alberta trip. Good luck and congratulations on retiring.

Luckily were I run my Brit here in western ok she has chased a few jacks and figured out those things don’t play fair lol. Now she pretty much ignores them.

I usually try to do a dusky hunt in New Mexico or Colorado early Sept. Then mid October I had planned Montana but that may have to change. In November and December I’ll hunt at home in Western Oklahoma and travel to Kansas and Nebraska for sure. And I’ve been thinking of trying New Mexico quail.