This weather is for the birds.

BrownDogsCan2

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I’ve always wanted to hunt the grass lands for scaled quail. The plan was to hunt my in-laws Saturday morning and then over to the grasslands for the afternoon and again Sunday. Back on their place on Monday.
Saturday morning went as scheduled. A couple of birds in the bag and a few missed opportunities and some bad luck. That afternoon we hit the cimarron, man that place is big. Hit a few guzzlers and a windmill and no birds seen.
This morning I woke up cooked breakfast for the dogs and then we headed out. The first guzzler we stopped at I got out of the truck and there was the only scalie of the morning standing there looking right at me. Grabbed the gun the dogs bailed out of the back seat and we high tailed it up there. But he had disappeared like a ghost never to be seen again. Four or five more stops 56 degrees and we had had enough.
Dogs spent. Called it, cut the trip a day short, but not before dropping by the in-laws for one or two more walks.
The first field always holds a few birds , but today was a little better. Birds loafing mid afternoon in some short crp. The first bird came easy. Seventy yards later a couple hens got up followed by a rooster that I pulled a few feathers on. This field sets on the highway and I’m never real comfortable hunting much of it . I decided to go ahead and follow the second bird as far as I could but another bird got up before we got there and I dropped it. I went ahead and turned in towards some stubble that we were going to work along the edge of before working more edge back to the truck.
The dogs were almost immediately birdy and you could tell that they were pushing birds. This went on for several hundred yards more until Roo my Chesapeake who was running a little bit hot blew a couple out. But one decided to hold.
The last bird a little while later is one Wally my Boykin had been working. She’s doing great for her first year but a lot of times she’s a step behind. Roo went ahead and put it up. Forty minutes from when we had stepped out of the truck and we were done.
I still would like to go back to grasslands and give it a better attempt.
A few picks from today.
 

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What a nice late season hunt , been to the Grasslands quite a few years back , remember moving 6 coveys in a short day , all bobwhites . Those scaled Quail are slippery we got one .
 
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