Wild Quail Hunts

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Of Interest

Self Guided

DIY Upland

Administrative

Wild Bobwhite Quail hunts is all we offer and providing a concise definition of what that means seems to be far more required now considering the increasing number of bird hunters that travel to hunt.

Who is it that sends in pictures as member contributions to the website fall into a couple of groups. The first is the hunter that recognizes it takes more than money to make MAHA work, greatly enjoys the land access and seeks our continued good business life and his hunting. This hunter is typically the more mature individual that agrees with what we do.

Another that sends in pictures does so as he simply takes a lot of his own. His pictures are of favored dogs, special days and are for additions to the album or to hang on the wall. Many of these hunters have at least one dog on point picture for every dog they have hunted with over the last decade or so on their wall. The missing dog pictures are typically the early dogs in a bird hunter's career before learning the value that pictures bring later in life.

The short answer about our wild quail hunts is they are on naturally propagated birds on existing habitat.

The longer answer is first based on habitat and region and second on dog power.

Habitat and region means that we lease a lot of land in three states and in some very specific regions in each of those states. Not all leased land is for wild quail hunting in terms of habitat quality even though it may be in the right region. Our regional differences range from higher to lower quail densities. What we do is get the hunter to the region and habitat that will support a quail hunt. That is just one part of the problem.

Once in that region the difficulties arise as that hunter may not have his eye calibrated to the cover that is productive to that which is not. This now distinguishes the type of hunter organization that we are. We are a do it yourself hunter organization and not a hunter training organization.

For those that may find our wild quail hunts a tough business we encourage them to trust our recommendations will put them in the right habitat in the right region. Once there, that hunter must pay the price of boots on the ground time and spend his time hunting.

The second aspect about dog power is a frequent theme throughout our quail hunting section. That dog power is defined by one that will range, hunts downwind side edge cover and dives into target cover, is very reliable to point and that can hunt coveys as well as singles in cold and warm weather, windy and calm as well as wet and dry conditions. This is a tall order for many dogs to accomplish. Those that have such dogs frequently send in limit pictures and many dog on point pictures. Those that do not have that quality of dog spend more time pheasant hunting or on less enjoyable quail hunts.

The issue is that wild quail hunts are tough hunts and all the more so when traveling from a grouse region for example with uniform habitat and short running dogs. For anyone that wants to be good at wild quail hunting is not to expect good hunts until a few seasons of experience have passed. That is the best part of the definition of our wild quail hunts. The rest is self explanatory and easily accomplished. To get started use the link below.

This is Kevin and PJ. We have seen them both throughout the website. Far more with point pictures than harvest, however still with plenty of harvest pictures. Kevin hunts for the dog work, notice the dog has a jacket to sit on for the picture rather than the icy ground. This picture, as all do, has far more story behind it than is apparent and that story is for Kevin to remember.

Have a look at lease land maps where self guided quail hunts are available in Kansas, Missouri and Iowa

Read a discussion about wild pheasant hunts