First quail hunt of the year

[slabstacker]

Got out this morning for the first quail hunt of the year. Never had or trained a bird dog before but decided to pick up a Brittany pup last December. She found and pointed a nice 20 plus bird covey right out the gate and I was able to pick one off of it. Followed up a couple singles over the next hour from the first covey and killed them. 3 birds in and hour and a half wasn’t bad for her first go around especially on public land.

[Phil Lilley]

Kansas or Missouri?

[ness]

2 hours ago, slabstacker said:

Got out this morning for the first quail hunt of the year. Never had or trained a bird dog before but decided to pick up a Brittany pup last December. She found and pointed a nice 20 plus bird covey right out the gate and I was able to pick one off of it. Followed up a couple singles over the next hour from the first covey and killed them. 3 birds in and hour and a half wasn’t bad for her first go around especially on public land.

Nice report! It’s so cool when a new pup figures things out. Congrats. 
 

Citori? 12 or 20?

[ness]

18 minutes ago, Phil Lilley said:

Kansas or Missouri?

KS is next weekend. 

[slabstacker]

It was Missouri, we where at bois de arc conservation area

[snagged in outlet 3]

A 20 bird covey is awesome!   Especially on public ground.  Nice dog!

[Quillback]

That's great you got some birds.  I have stomped around at Bois Darc with the dog and we didn't see nuthin.

[Johnsfolly]

Congrats @slabstacker on a successful hunt with you self trained pup. Great looking dog! 

I haven't seen a good covey of quail on public lands in well over a decade. Used bump a few while small game hunting Natl forest lands around Columbia.

[Ketchup]

@slabstacker hows the pup doing? 

[slabstacker]

She is good! We hunted opening day and she did great. We had 3 covey flushes in just a couple hours up at Bois De Arc. Shooting wasn't to great I only killed 4 but it was still a great time. Went back out that following Friday and got one big covey up and killed a few out of it. The day after that she got sick and took a couple weeks to get over. She is all good now and back to normal, we are going to go it tomorrow afternoon and give it a go. Probably going to run out to talbot and try out there. I have never seen so many people out that first week as I did this year. Every parking lot had trucks with dog boxes in them. I think with bois de arc being so close to Springfield it gets hunted a bunch. Here is a pick from opening morning. Anyone else been out hunting this season and having any success finding some birds?