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Habitat

Iowa quail hunting is largely in the grassed waterways and soft edge of the many drains that cross the farm fields. That is the key to this south central and southwest region.

While this article covers Iowa quail hunting in specific it also touches on other quail hunting opportunities we offer in addition to our Iowa quail hunting.

This region is on the upper fringe of the Grand River watershed that makes the second largest surface area sub-basin of the lower Missouri River Basin. It covers most of the northern center and half of Missouri extending north past the Iowa state line making for enough rolling terrain and many dry drains that provides bobwhite cover habitat.

As many will agree it is the right quail habitat that makes for the better hunts and game of choice densities. in this case the key factor is the watershed and the secondary effect of the non agricultural areas the watershed creates. This exemplifies as well as our other lease land locations why we have land in some very specific locations and no lease land in larger areas elsewhere.

What some Iowa quail habitat looks like is summer when we conduct our lease contracting.

Our southern Iowa leases and that of north Missouri are similar with their large grain crop fields of corn and beans cut by the mostly dry drainages.

Another view of a must hunt spot. There is more cover habitat just barley visible separating the near and far field with the farm's property line the far tree line.

Hunter Actions

For the traveling quail hunter the question is often asked why pay for the entire season when most travel to quail hunt a week or more typically two during the entire season. This argument continues that our approach is great for the local quail hunter and the traveling hunter seems to miss out.

A contrary idea is that most that travel to quail hunt do so as they can accomplish in one short trip far more than they can the entire season in their home state. And, in terms of the local hunter yes he does hunt the entire season typically at a two day weekend at a time rate spread across three months with two family oriented holidays taking away from that time. If he did hunt at least one half the available weekend days each of the three months that would make for 12 hunt days. The similarity is strong and it continues.

One other view point about our local hunters is that many of them also travel elsewhere to bird hunt, grouse, huns, chukar, blues as well as other quail and on and on as well. They too travel to hunt more of one bird type on a short trip than they can accomplish in their home state even with local good upland bird hunts.

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