Any field reports from south central nebraska?

My dad and I hunted 3.5 days with 1 veteran dog and 2 pups. We ended up with 5 roosters and 7 quail. The cover looked good and there was still quite a bit of crops unharvested. There are some birds around, you just have to work to find them. We found most of the birds in the grass next to a corn or milo field.
 
Bigj said:
My dad and I hunted 3.5 days with 1 veteran dog and 2 pups. We ended up with 5 roosters and 7 quail. The cover looked good and there was still quite a bit of crops unharvested. There are some birds around, you just have to work to find them. We found most of the birds in the grass next to a corn or milo field.
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I’d say that’s pretty close to what I experienced.
I just ended up hunting the 1 day and headed back at 330.Some unexpected things at home. 2 coveys iof quail that I didn’t shoot at. 20-25 hens and 6 shootable roosters that I mostly missed 2 were hit but kept going. Subconsciously I wanted to shoot with my middle finger and I wasn’t pulling my gun back into my shoulder. Floated all over my shoulder and bicep. I should have killed some birds.
 
I hunted within an hour or so south of holdrege fir a couple of days, the week of veterans day. I was able to limit on quail one day and pheasant the next. Saw good numbers of each species. Day I limited on quail moved 4 sizable coveys of 15 to 20 birds. Will say at least one covey had late hatchers as the birds weren't much bigger than starlings.
 
I was in that area opening weekend. There was quite a bit of hunting pressure . It was compounded by a couple of places I was counting on being heavily grazed and an ofw being pulled. I didn’t look at some of the other places I’ve hunted. It was a little bit wet and stayed off of minimum maintenance roads. Judging by the condition of the rroads and parking lots I was probably about 10th person though on Sunday.
Did see a few birds 3 roosters on Sunday and 7 on Monday. Nothing to get to excited. They either blew out early or ran. I don’t know if it was the wet or the pressure but they acted like they had been shot at a lot.

About half of the corn was uncut and really not much milo in the area, less than there has been,
 
For what it is worth probably not much but I started hunting the rainwater basin area in the early 70s with my dad when I was a little kid. The area around Shickly and Ong were truly unbelievable and stayed that way thru the late 80s. One day near Ong we went through a big cedar thicket smack in the middle of a huge low land with water and CRP. I estimate at least 3 to 400 birds boiled out of that thicket for what seemed like 5 minutes. At the time I was shooting a semi with the plug out. I shot 18 rounds and didn’t move five steps. Only got two. Don’t guess I shot very well in those days right. Anyway these were all wild birds. Not per raised. The pheasant numbers back in that day were simply unbelievable. Now that is yesterday’s wine like the quail population is where I live in North Georgia. I’m just glad I was born young enough to see it when it was special and believe me it was. It will never be like that again sadly.
 
You are right about that Tomahawker. Too much scent in one place for the dogs too many targets in the air at one time for the shooter but it sure was something to see.
 
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