My End of Season (Colorado) Stats

[LittleBigHorn22]

With my Colorado bird hunting now close (West Slopes), I gathered up the stats for all the species I hunted. I was a bit apprehensive of posting since it looks really bad from a harvested standpoint. But I moved last year so 95% of all spots I hunted were brand new to me. On top of that only pheasant and grouse from the list have I hunted before. Chukar definitely kicked my butt. Interestingly, I only saw a single other hunter in the field during my time. Colorado really doesn't have high bird density but the variety was so much fun.

Species	Birds	Days	Miles	Elevation	Livvy's	Livvy's	Ziggy's	Ziggy's
	Harvested	Hunted	Hiked	Gain (ft)	Miles	Elevation	Miles	Elevation
Pheasant	1	2	14	600	31	400	30	400
Ptarmigan	3	3	18	4366	43	12368	37	11535
Turkey	1	3	10	1181	23	1947	24	2364
Gambels Quail	10	19	117	11838	273	20014	240	18898
Sage Grouse	1	2	13	1217	30	1884	30	2340
Dusky Grouse	1	5	19	3718	46	8391	40	8155
Chukar	1	16	58	17266	138	36171	117	35026
Total	18	50	249	40186	584	81175	518	78718

 

[guf54]

Nice stats! I’ve always been interested in things like this and need to start keeping track of my own hunting stats better. Did you see many chukars with not many shot opportunities?

 

[LittleBigHorn22]

Nice stats! I’ve always been interested in things like this and need to start keeping track of my own hunting stats better. Did you see many chukars with not many shot opportunities?

It takes a bit of work to save each track. But I'm hoping over time it means I'll always remember where to check back at. And not forget any spots.

I did get good at finding the chukar and they always went back to the same spots. But my area for them is pretty bare ground rock which means you see them walking around more often than not. And that's not a great situation with pointers. I could have held them back and walked the birds up, but I was trying to get the dogs more experience. Plus I'm a pretty bad shot so there was at least 4 or 5 that I absolutely should have shot. But a few times they fly by cliffs and I don't want to shot so the dogs don't run off.

 

[Quailnerd]

With my Colorado bird hunting now close (West Slopes), I gathered up the stats for all the species I hunted. I was a bit apprehensive of posting since it looks really bad from a harvested standpoint. But I moved last year so 95% of all spots I hunted were brand new to me. On top of that only pheasant and grouse from the list have I hunted before. Chukar definitely kicked my butt. Interestingly, I only saw a single other hunter in the field during my time. Colorado really doesn't have high bird density but the variety was so much fun.

Species	Birds	Days	Miles	Elevation	Livvy's	Livvy's	Ziggy's	Ziggy's
	Harvested	Hunted	Hiked	Gain (ft)	Miles	Elevation	Miles	Elevation
Pheasant	1	2	14	600	31	400	30	400
Ptarmigan	3	3	18	4366	43	12368	37	11535
Turkey	1	3	10	1181	23	1947	24	2364
Gambels Quail	10	19	117	11838	273	20014	240	18898
Sage Grouse	1	2	13	1217	30	1884	30	2340
Dusky Grouse	1	5	19	3718	46	8391	40	8155
Chukar	1	16	58	17266	138	36171	117	35026
Total	18	50	249	40186	584	81175	518	78718

You deserve a new pair of boots!

 

[Quailnerd]

What town are you in, we hunt Duskys around pagosa 2-3 times a year

 

[LittleBigHorn22]

Yeah my boots are in rough shape right now. We are in Montrose.

 

[Quailnerd]

My best friend growing up had family around Montrose, loved our trips up there.

 

[LittleBigHorn22]

My best friend growing up had family around Montrose, loved our trips up there.

It's been really good. Way better than dealing with traffic in the front range. Pagosa has one of the better hot springs if you haven't hit that up.

 

[Quailnerd]

My brother has been in pagosa 15 years or so, nice place to visit family, fish and hunt. I do like those hot springs in the fall after a day of chasing grouse!