January 2007 Updates page 2
4 Jan
Quail
Jon,
Several years ago both Jimmy [last name deleted] and I stopped shooting jump and wild flush birds and shot at only birds pointed by our dogs. Since then our limit days dropped dramatically. The payback was that both he and I have more covey locations marked on our maps and can be on more coveys in a day than we ever remember having before.
Both Jimmy and I talked about how to make this good thing better and decided we would not shoot on the covey rise any more. Both he and I have had enough single shot doubles on covey rise that we believe no matter how well placed a shot may be on a covey rise the chance for wounded, un-recovered birds is high. So we started this season shooting only single pointed quail. A four quail 3/4 day such as this will probably be the norm and it will only be the rare day we have a limit on the tail gate.
Our dogs seem unaffected and hunt just as hard with one quail a day on retrieve as when we shot everything in gun range. Each quail here represents one covey.
I'm still working on getting a point picture for the wall and this was the best of this trip. The birds all held for as long as I wanted to take pictures but this Brit is just so small the cover quickly conceals him making the beeper all the more necessary.
We did have some drama on the trip. The pup faced down a demon.
At least for a little while.
We saw a lot of turkeys and have most of the season.
These, picture 5, were on property [location deleted] and we had never seen them on this farm for the last several years we have been quail hunting it. For your spring turkey hunters we found flocks on properties [locations deleted]. I bet they will have an easy time this spring.
The 8 point we took a picture of in case 
someone would recognize it as their lost deer. We found it on the east side towards the middle of farm [location deleted]. It was well on the way decomposing and coyotes had been at it. We left it as we found it. We also counted 18 deer with one having a large rack much bigger than this one on the same farm. Good luck.
We did have one unwanted affair as the pup was able to catch a turkey that nether ran well or could fly. We pulled him off it easy as the turkey was larger than he could handle and we didn't want any of this. The down stroke was he pointed two more turkeys after that.
Overall, another good trip. Did not see another hunter or hear a shot. We were on a good number of birds, good dog action with one farm not producing any coveys and we added two new coveys to our inventory.
Thanks, Jason [last name deleted]
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