Wheat stubble

highbrass16 said:
For some reason the harder the wind is blowing the more they like the wheat stubble. And it doesn't have to be thick. I think they feel better because they can see since they can't hear. Not sure but it holds true, especially when its really cold.
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This is a nugget for the newbies out there! Hot days are when we always went to the stubble as well. I guess I didn't correlate the wind, but then again, it's terribly windy every day where my dad lives and I typically hunt stubble.
 
We hunted stubble in Nebraska a few years ago and it was great. birds set tight but the stubble up there tended to be a little taller than what I've seen lately.
 
We have shot tons of birds in stubble never coorelated that with weather or wind but have hardly ever not seen birds in wheat stubble. Hail damaged, cut low, or vacummed we have always found birds. I have walked them in a group, with dogs, without dogs, and solo. They always seem to be there.
 
hunter94 said:
I love wheat stubble, especially with tumble weeds....or foxtail. :thumbsup:
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As long as the foxtail is dead:eek: Foxtain is not good for dogs. Worse than cheatgrass....the barbs will break off if a dog inhales one or it gets into them through the eyes or ears. They have been known to kill dogs. Ask a vet for more information.

Back to the wheat stubble, we hunted some two years ago, mix of new and cut, windy day and the birds were all packed in there...especially around like you mentioned, with tumble weeds around pivot sprinklers....

Greg
 
The mention of tumble weeds got me to thinking...
About 10 years ago, the guy I hunt on acquired a new piece of land right before opening day. The previous farmer had planted wheat, never sprayed it, and then never harvested it! It was FULL of tumble weeds AND birds! Absolute rooster heaven!!
I would much rather hunt a bad farmers land than a good farmers land!! :)
 
The best wheat stubble story i have is early 2000s. Went stopped and talked to a farmer and he had pretty tall wheat stubble in a 40 acre section around a pond. So we where driving down to the field and wouldnt you know it rooster and hens acrossing the road in front of us. So we had to decide what we were going to do. Shhot at these or hunt the stubble. Well we decided to hunt the stubble since we did have permission across the road. So my dad head down the fence line he sends me around the pond. We both seen so many bird in that wheat stubble we couldnt believe it. Rooster heaven! I think we took 3 or for out of there and hunted it 2more times that year and still held alot of the bird we scared up before. Thats really the best we have done in wheat stubble.
 
last year when no one else was finding birds we was finding them in the stubble. we walked the little crp, milo, and corn we could find but found nothing every single bird was in the stubble.
 
no, it was on the private land next to the WIHA. I have limited ability with only 1 dog and she's not quite 11 mos. I enjoy the challenge though. That's why it's called hunting and not killing right? :)
 
I don't see much wheat around home, would cut Milo be about the same? I have walked it, but don't find birds very often. Normally I pull them out of CRP or patches of uncut Milo.
 
milo

Thrasher said:
I don't see much wheat around home, would cut Milo be about the same? I have walked it, but don't find birds very often. Normally I pull them out of CRP or patches of uncut Milo.
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pheasant sure eat milo. hunting them in the stuff is problematic though. if it is not weeded in they run the rows, the dogs run the rows and you watch the birds fly off someplace else. milo generally works best with a gang of hunters and blockers but would rather not shoot birds than do it that way. but, whatever. one other problem, if you have pointers, you never know where they are or what they are up to as ya can't seem em', finding dead or wounded birds in the stuff is also tough. ya just gotta hunt someplace and i hunt what is available.

cheers
 
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