Burlington Rooster Round Up
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Eric"DOC"Holliday
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Rooster Round up?
What is the Rooster Round Up?
What is the Rooster Round Up?
henhenROOSTER!!!
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HAHAHA, that's funny right thar - sounds like some kind of dance to me, may be something like the watermelon crawl!
Hunter1971
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Yea, I thought about doing that too. Let me know how it turns out? I've heard good and bad about it, but really, how bad could it be? At least you'll have an area to hunt with lots of land. The only draw back would be opening weekend and the crowds, but after that would be pretty fun I would think???
What are the rules on the roundup? The price is per person, no guests, right? Can I by, for example, buy 3 passes, and take 2 different friends with me each time... or does it have to be the same friend?
My personal problem with it is that none of my friends is as eager as I... I usually get each of them to go on one hunt a year or so... but none of them go as much as I do...
Thanks for any info...
My personal problem with it is that none of my friends is as eager as I... I usually get each of them to go on one hunt a year or so... but none of them go as much as I do...
Thanks for any info...
I believe you will need to contact the folks running it and ask them specifically.
sdt-Evergreen
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Burlington
JHOOCH:
I did that last year. I bought 4 and rotated friends/family and clients throu. This year I will only do 1 because I have no friends or clients. This will be my 3rd year for the roundup and to be honest I like the Burlington Rooster Roundup. You tie in some private land (Hen-Hen) with the 45,000 acres of Rotary land and you have a solid season. I also believe strongly in supporting the local communities in which we hunt, motel, food etc and of course the Rotary, which is very benificial to the community. I did the Akron Rooster hunt for 2 years and found that the Burlington hunt has better land/cover and more birds throughout the season.
JH: I remember hunting with you 2 years ago on your club land, still a member? Send me a PM and we will try and hook up again this year.
sdt
JHOOCH:
I did that last year. I bought 4 and rotated friends/family and clients throu. This year I will only do 1 because I have no friends or clients. This will be my 3rd year for the roundup and to be honest I like the Burlington Rooster Roundup. You tie in some private land (Hen-Hen) with the 45,000 acres of Rotary land and you have a solid season. I also believe strongly in supporting the local communities in which we hunt, motel, food etc and of course the Rotary, which is very benificial to the community. I did the Akron Rooster hunt for 2 years and found that the Burlington hunt has better land/cover and more birds throughout the season.
JH: I remember hunting with you 2 years ago on your club land, still a member? Send me a PM and we will try and hook up again this year.
sdt
HighTailSetters
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I just wanted to add my experience to this thread:
I hunted the Burlington Rotary Rooster Roundup for the first time yesterday, December 4th, so my experience is limited to late season hunting. My thought was to hit BRRR land after the Thanksgiving holiday to minimize chances of running into large crowds of hunters (I like the solitude of uncrowded fields), and I did see only two or three other pairs of hunters. I hunted in the northeast and southeast quandrants of the BRRR area. It was a relatively cold day with fresh snow on the ground from the night before. I hunted with my 18 month old GSP, and was hoping to get him some good bird contacts.
I drove by a lot of BRRR lands, and saw mostly harvested fields with little to no useful cover. These fields were the typical harvested corn or wheat fields where the ground is barren of bird cover. In other words, of the huge amount of land available in the BRRR, almost all of what I saw in one day of scouting/hunting had little hunting value, at least for this time of year. Even the CRP fields I visited had very short cover, which, not surprisingly, held no birds, even along the edges of cornfields.
Maybe I was just unlucky and somehow found only bad parcels and thus haven't been exposed to what BRRR lands usually have to offer. Or maybe I just don't know how to scout for late season birds. I like the concept of the BRRR and had high hopes of finding some good land to hunt. Even just one decent parcel out of ten would've made me happy.
I did find two or three very small patches of good cover (~1/4 acre) and a good fence row, but each such parcel had been thoroughly hunted by the time I got to it and yielded no birds for me and my mutt. I did see a few spots which held lots of birds. But each of these spots was on private land not accessible to BRRR members. I will try hunting BRRR land a few more times this year since I am already in the 2011 program and might as well make the most of it, but I am not optimistic.
I know most people hunt the BRRR lands early in the season, and I guess the hunting is great at that time. Further, this is generally a bad year for pheasant hunting, so things may be better in a more typical late season. Based on the minimal quality of the habitat I have seen so far, which admittidly is a small fraction of the total BRRR lands, I am not sure if I participate in the BRRR again during the late season.
--shinbone
I hunted the Burlington Rotary Rooster Roundup for the first time yesterday, December 4th, so my experience is limited to late season hunting. My thought was to hit BRRR land after the Thanksgiving holiday to minimize chances of running into large crowds of hunters (I like the solitude of uncrowded fields), and I did see only two or three other pairs of hunters. I hunted in the northeast and southeast quandrants of the BRRR area. It was a relatively cold day with fresh snow on the ground from the night before. I hunted with my 18 month old GSP, and was hoping to get him some good bird contacts.
I drove by a lot of BRRR lands, and saw mostly harvested fields with little to no useful cover. These fields were the typical harvested corn or wheat fields where the ground is barren of bird cover. In other words, of the huge amount of land available in the BRRR, almost all of what I saw in one day of scouting/hunting had little hunting value, at least for this time of year. Even the CRP fields I visited had very short cover, which, not surprisingly, held no birds, even along the edges of cornfields.
Maybe I was just unlucky and somehow found only bad parcels and thus haven't been exposed to what BRRR lands usually have to offer. Or maybe I just don't know how to scout for late season birds. I like the concept of the BRRR and had high hopes of finding some good land to hunt. Even just one decent parcel out of ten would've made me happy.
I did find two or three very small patches of good cover (~1/4 acre) and a good fence row, but each such parcel had been thoroughly hunted by the time I got to it and yielded no birds for me and my mutt. I did see a few spots which held lots of birds. But each of these spots was on private land not accessible to BRRR members. I will try hunting BRRR land a few more times this year since I am already in the 2011 program and might as well make the most of it, but I am not optimistic.
I know most people hunt the BRRR lands early in the season, and I guess the hunting is great at that time. Further, this is generally a bad year for pheasant hunting, so things may be better in a more typical late season. Based on the minimal quality of the habitat I have seen so far, which admittidly is a small fraction of the total BRRR lands, I am not sure if I participate in the BRRR again during the late season.
--shinbone
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sdt-Evergreen
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shinbone
Don't give up on the BRRR just yet. I too hunted it this year and was disapointed in the cover over most of the areas. But having hunted it in years past (with good success) I know that this year the cover is at least 50% of what it was last year. This area was heavily impacted by the drought and thus birds are down and the cover is sparse. The best I can say is watch the weather in the Spring and Summer, maybe make trip out in August/September, talk to the locals and check the cover. The maps change very little from year to year so you should have a good idea of what the Fall hunt will look like. I too like the opportunity to hunt large areas. Good luck the rest of the season.
Don't give up on the BRRR just yet. I too hunted it this year and was disapointed in the cover over most of the areas. But having hunted it in years past (with good success) I know that this year the cover is at least 50% of what it was last year. This area was heavily impacted by the drought and thus birds are down and the cover is sparse. The best I can say is watch the weather in the Spring and Summer, maybe make trip out in August/September, talk to the locals and check the cover. The maps change very little from year to year so you should have a good idea of what the Fall hunt will look like. I too like the opportunity to hunt large areas. Good luck the rest of the season.
This was the second year I hunted the RR. Last year was definitely better and I had no idea or clue where I was going. I knew what to look for and all, I just had not been out there before nor did I have a chance to scout anything.
This year was not good. And like evergreen said, there are alot of factors that caused this. I know some groups did okay opening weekend, but compared to other parts of the state, not so much.
I actually did pretty good in Kansas this year even with the drought there and all...so if there are crops, tree rows, crop cover left, hedge rows, weed rows, creek bottoms, any type of cover along with food, there will be birds.
It is all about the hatches, and what type of spring and summer they have.
My issue with the RR is that everything looks so "clean farmed"....in Kansas they do not do this....If you want habitat for the birds, it helps to leave some places for them to hide, breed, live, and eat....
I have been hunting pheasants since 1996 and if there are birds, there will be birds, just takes a bit more "hunting" instead of "killing".....
Greg
This year was not good. And like evergreen said, there are alot of factors that caused this. I know some groups did okay opening weekend, but compared to other parts of the state, not so much.
I actually did pretty good in Kansas this year even with the drought there and all...so if there are crops, tree rows, crop cover left, hedge rows, weed rows, creek bottoms, any type of cover along with food, there will be birds.
It is all about the hatches, and what type of spring and summer they have.
My issue with the RR is that everything looks so "clean farmed"....in Kansas they do not do this....If you want habitat for the birds, it helps to leave some places for them to hide, breed, live, and eat....
I have been hunting pheasants since 1996 and if there are birds, there will be birds, just takes a bit more "hunting" instead of "killing".....
Greg