Bobwhite Quail Hunting
This is a overview of the wild Bobwhite Quail hunting we offer and a short description of how we operate. Have a good read of this page and the links to detailed information at the page bottom and then call us directly for a specific discussion of your hunt plans.
Bobwhite Quail hunting is on wild birds over existing natural terrain within the agricultural regions of Iowa, Missouri and Kansas.
What the quail Hunter will enjoy most is the ability to step from his truck onto a different spot, each day of each hunting trip and never have to cross his own tracks the entire season. This ability to see different ground provides the additional enjoyment of discovery and through the season and years of hunts to come. Marking all found coveys on the land maps will soon collect more covey spots than time to hunt in a season. That allows the quail hunter the next time he has a first season dog to get that dog on more quail coveys and singles in a shorter period of time than most quail hunters had the opportunity for with past dogs.
Our agricultural region is within the grain farming areas of south central Iowa, north Missouri and the watershed country of Kansas. The quail cover is mostly linear composed of edge cover along the many wet and dry drainage's cutting through farm fields connecting small patches of woods, grass and brush. This cover goes on for miles.
Quail hunters and their dogs are separated from others. For the most part no one mixes dogs with others, crosses boot prints or feels the need to beat the other guy. Our quail hunters if not at the start of the quail hunting career with us soon become conservative in their quail hunts knowing not to hunt any covey to extinction. After the first couple of trips and finding coveys on the same farms from year to year that same hunter will soon begin to expand out to different regions in any one state as well as hunt any of our three states if for no other reason than to experience habitat differences. Through the years this effort at expanding out to different areas pays off when any one area has a bad reproduction cycle we are large enough with our over 200,000 acres to always have a good quail hunting locality somewhere.
The self Guided aspect of our wild Bobwhite Quail hunting starts with a telephone conversation long before the hunt with either John Wenzel or Jon Nee, both of whom train and hunt their own bird dogs. Being pheasant and quail hunters and being out on the land throughout the year on their lease land coverage gives them plenty of opportunity to observe the better upland bird populations. That ability to see the area as well as operating as a business and not a hunting club brings a motivation and wherewithal to give recommendation of where to quail hunt based on bird densities, habitat preferences, driving route and if wanting to combine a pheasant hunt on the same trip.
From that first conversation the quail hunter will develop a plan 'A' and 'B' of where to hunt his first trip or several. The plan 'A' will be our recommendation based on his hunt plans and our knowledge where the birds are with plan 'B' being a good alternative should the weather conditions change from planning time to the actual hunt.
That hunter for his first several trips will be encouraged to develop a couple of regions of land knowledge as he will find one region of habitat or bird density between quail and pheasant more to his liking, hunting style and dog power. That region will most likely become his favorite for the start of return trips and then expansion out to other areas preventing the boredom that comes with hunting the same farms too often.