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| Southern Iowa quail habitat is similar to that of North Missouri. Many pictures from both states will appear indistinguishable. The cause for this is the Grand River Watershed where we have our southern Iowa quail hunting is the upper fringe of a very large watershed rising up from the central part of Missouri where the Missouri River (and Interstate Highway 70) runs west to east from Kansas City to St Louis cutting the state in half and dividing the southern Ozark Mountains from the agricultural north region. Those with experience between the Iowa quail region and that of Missouri will remark that Missouri woody/tree cover is thicker and that Iowa allows for more blue sky shot opportunities.
This picture series comes from Jason a long time self guided quail hunter of his own dogs and a member from the early 90's. He has been a bird dog hunter for the past 34 years. One comment he made to us a while back that stuck with us and that was he had to wait until he was thirteen before he was allowed to have his very own bird dog. The value of this comment is that most will agree that youths that grow up hunting within a particular hunting discipline gain an edge that adults cannot attain later in life attempting a new hunting discipline. Jason does fit that bill and he is valued in his comments/feedback as he is the kind of person that never seems to have a problem, always finds birds and only has good and better hunting days. The comments for each picture in this series were paraphrased form our conversation about them.
With all of these pictures we are attempting to show Jason's dog on point as evidence of the quality of quail cover. Jason's dog is on point in the center of this picture on the first single (turned out to be a pair) after the covey flush.
A cropped enlargement of Jason's dog from the picture above. Jason was particularly proud of his dog's work in this picture as the day was T-shirt warm, a light variable breeze and the quail, a pair, flushed from behind his dog hence the turned head point. |
