Bobwhite | This series of snap shots from one half section, or 320 acres, that held two Bobwhite Quail coveys.
These during season habitat pictures may appear to be bleak in terms of cover compared to the earlier summer time picture, however this is a good quail farm in terms of longevity and dog work. If the hunter that hunts this farm will be satisfied with taking one quail from each covey for his two dogs and hunt this farm twice a season then that hunter could hunt these coveys for years to come. With two coveys on this farm and a good, meaning warm and dry spring, hatch and brood these two coveys should expand to three. Conversely, these coveys probably would reduce to one during a bad, meaning cold wet spring. Limited hunting pressure even during the bad brood years will still allow for good hunts. Having conservation minded hunters have allowed the same coveys to replenish themselves for many years to come. A hunter that bags 8 quail from these two coveys on one hunt alone can hunt each to extinction that one season. At the time of these pictures this lease was three years under Mid-America Hunting Association control and has had quail coveys ranging from one to three each of those years. |
