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Quail/Pheasant 2024/25
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Yeah, it’s pretty much an annual trip. Man, I saw more birds than I’ve seen in a long time! I’d say that a total of over 100 birds were spotted. Of course, most of them were seen when driving between hunting areas, but we jumped around 20 birds in the areas that we were hunting. I knocked down another one this morning, but he got up and ran before I got to him. We’re considering another short trip here in a few weeks. I could have shot several quail as well, but I would have destroyed them with my load for pheasant.
Im headed up there second week of January for a doe antelope hunt and was hoping to get in on a few pheasants while I was there but the landowners I’m hunting on said they haven’t seen many birds at all. Hopefully I can get on a few up there anyway. Are yall using dogs?
ETA: did you see any scaled quail?
ETA: did you see any scaled quail?
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Most the pheasants I have seen have been North of Guymon, Hooker, and Optima (the town).
Went to one well the other day and jumped up 20 of them ditch chickens.
Like @Pochanaquarhip said, most of the birds seem to be between Guymon and Hooker and south of the Kansas border for about 10 miles or so. We hunted around Keyes for a couple of hours the first morning which is about 50 miles west of Guymon, and we didn’t see any birds. We then moved to an area that was around 8 miles west of Guymon and 2 miles south of the border. That’s where we saw a multitude of birds and all of our birds were shot. We also hunted for a short bit just north of Hooker, and we saw a lot of birds around the area. We were limited on how we hunted because it was just two of us without a dog. My dog was retired two years ago because of age. A dog would have greatly helped. We only hunted small corners and a long narrow drainage ditch. The drainage ditch was across the road from a cut milo field. We met the farmer by chance, and he let us hunt his field as well. That drainage ditch was a great roosting area, and we jumped several birds out of it.
All the quail that we saw were bob white. Surprisingly, we didn’t see any blue quail. Good luck with the doe antelope hunt! I assume that you’re going to be pretty far west out in the panhandle. I have a little land out around Felt, OK. I’ve seen antelope on it, but I have never seen any pheasant.
The vast majority of my permissions are west of Boise City. A lot are right around Felt. There’s definitely birds around there, but I almost always see more antelope than pheasants. I don’t know how much land youve got around there, but you oughta enter the landowner antelope drawing if you can meet the minimum acreage requirement (I THINK it’s 160 acres).
I'll reach out to a few friends. I'm 0 for 3 on expensive pups into bird dogs. The ones that were amazing just showed up on the porch or we found at the pound.
I have an undivided interest of 8 acres in a total of 160 acres of family land. It’s land that has been passed down through the generations starting with my great great grandparents. It’s a long story, but I need to make time and go visit with the family member that has the majority control.
The last ex was born and raised around Clayton, NM. Her grand parents lived there until they passed and a couple of uncles & aunts live there still. They had several thousand acres up north of town across and around Rabbit Ears. One of the aunts taught in Felt.
I told you that story so I could tell you this one, I've driven thru Felt more times than I care to remember. Ain't a hellofalot there. I never saw much except pronghorn west of Boise City. Well, geese and cranes by the 1000's at about flight level 25, but mostly the goats. I never saw any chickens in the bar ditches, but I also never bird hunted out there. Just the goats. Pretty damn desolate out there. Good place to drive thru at night.
Grand dad didn't have any birds on him at all, but it was a long way to the closest crop field. He had the pronghorn and a small herd of elk that would winter there by the cattle pens. Oh, and porcupine. Saw a few porcupines down in the canyon, but we always gave them a pretty wide birth.
I told you that story so I could tell you this one, I've driven thru Felt more times than I care to remember. Ain't a hellofalot there. I never saw much except pronghorn west of Boise City. Well, geese and cranes by the 1000's at about flight level 25, but mostly the goats. I never saw any chickens in the bar ditches, but I also never bird hunted out there. Just the goats. Pretty damn desolate out there. Good place to drive thru at night.
Grand dad didn't have any birds on him at all, but it was a long way to the closest crop field. He had the pronghorn and a small herd of elk that would winter there by the cattle pens. Oh, and porcupine. Saw a few porcupines down in the canyon, but we always gave them a pretty wide birth.
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