Hello everyone. I am new here on the forum. I live in MT and am relatively new to the upland bird scene. With that being said, I'm training my 1 year old GSP. She's come a long way in a year and we work hard at hunting. We've been able to find what I would consider to be plenty of birds this year despite the terrible drought, but I cannot seem to pattern or consistently find Hungarian partridge. From all I can read and the boot miles I've put it, it seems like these birds are highly associated with cut wheat fields. Past that, it seems like a crapshoot to me. Coveys tend to stay in the same place, but how on earth do you target them? Not looking for anyone's spot or an OnX point like what seems to be some people on here. I just want tips to actually target Huns. I've found individual coveys spread out across the state in places I've hunted, but have yet to find what I would consider a place to actually target them. They seem like a bonus when I'm out. Is that normal? Is there something I'm missing? Is a 6-7 covey day being too optimistic? Or am I doing something wrong entirely?
Huns Help While Pheasant Hunting MT
- Thread starter garyt
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dustin mudd
Active member
Nearly 30 days hunting Montana and North Dakota this year. I’d say a 6-7 covey week would be realistic. Things have drastically changed over the last 20 years. IMO they are a bird of different habitat than core pheasant areas, think edges of grain to grasslands.
benelli-banger
Well-known member
Old farmsteads, hedgerows, any “structure” that is near fields…contacted quite a few coveys in MT and ND this fall…more than past few years…dry conditions favor Huns…
Thank you for the help and the suggestions. Sounds like I have to readjust my expectations of a 6 covey day! ha! I have found a couple of coveys around some old buildings or structure like that. That seems to really hold them if they are around. Seems like they are a little different than I thought they were from the coveys of Oklahoma bobwhite hunts I've been on! I know they're a different bird entirely, just lots of similarities seems like to me! I've got a buddy in NW Wyo that does pretty good on the Huns but he's on private. I'm just a poor old guy trying to learn something new on the awesome public lands we have in MT! HA!
Goosemaster
Well-known member
If your dog gets birdie in short grass or wheat stubble, get ready for huns.