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Has anyone see any quail on your hunting clubs? After they timbered our place two years ago i heard two. Since then nothing, can we buy birds and place them on our property?
can we buy birds and place them on our property?
There has been no proof showing that released quail can establish a "wild" covey from what I have read. You can try, but I really doubt it will be long lived.
Luke I will give you a PM when I go again. I usually save that place for when we need them for BBQ's and so forth but I do let my dog run them a lot.
Has anyone see any quail on your hunting clubs? After they timbered our place two years ago i heard two. Since then nothing, can we buy birds and place them on our property?
Potsticker,
You really do bring back some good memories when you said the word "beggarlice". Quail loved areas that contained these plants as it was a good food source for them. I remember coming home from quail hunting many times with them stuck all over the legs of my pants. My Dad always kept some cotton bolls put aside and we would pull out the cotton from it and rub them against the "beggarlice" and they would all stick to the cotton easily.
I loved to hunt with my Dad. He had "lightning quick" reflexes and he didn't waste too many shells either. He could outshoot most any hunter around during the 50's, 60's, and 70's. During all of these years, he had some of the best bird dogs as well. He was a natural born hunter that was more accurate than I could ever be. My best friend and I grew up together and both of our Dads hunted together. We had some really great times and I just wish that my best friend and I could have a day of quail hunting (wild ones)again before we get too far along life's journey. There are no quail on my property in Lincoln County and haven't been for over 15 years now. I haven't seen a covey of quail in the wild anywhere in Georgia for probably 10-12 years at least. I did see one rabbit about a month ago and a red tailed hawk tried to get him while I was watching the rabbit from 30 feet away. I had to wave my arms to scare the hawk away. I think that between the coyotes, stray housecats, fire ants, hawks, foxes, and ticks, that the population of the deer, quail, turkeys, rabbits, and squirrels have been greatly diminished. Of course, the ongoing drought over the past couple of years has not helped in growing any food sources either.
During the past 13 months, I have had some really tough personal challenges. First, on December 9, 2006 my wife of over 31 years died, then a year ago today my Mother died, then I suffered a heart attack on May 29th, and my Mother-in-Law died on August 12th. It's been a really tough time just with my wife's heart and diabetic related illness since June 2000 so I think that it would be wonderful to be able to enjoy a relaxing day quail hunting again and reminiscing about hunting with my Dad every step of the way.
No, but I scare up a covey of Southern partridge once in a while.