lookin for a hunter

[cudexter]

Originally posted by skrimp:
I remember seeing a study done by one of the N.C. colleges that showed how bad the depredation from house cats was on quail. It blew my mind. If you want to do something good for the quail, kill every cat you see.

I worked at a quail plantation and the number of house cats we killed was triple the number of yotes.

[ndbrown213]

We have 2 coveys on our place with about 12-13 birds apiece. I killed 4 of them this season, it was by far my best hunt of the year. We hadnt killed quail on this property in several years. I plan on laying into the predators hard this year. What can you plant to give quail food and cover?

[Aucs18]

bi-color lespedeza for food..think thats how you spell it..my granddaddy lives by it..he says you will find a covey near a patch of it just about everytime..if you have some pine trees thin them out and do some prescribed burning..

[deep]

My buddy and I used to plant lezpedeeza by hand every summer on the new clear cuts and logging circles on wma land in our county, we could always find the birds in it once it got cold...it works

[rp]

bicolor is a great cover and some food. add ragweed to that and you have a sald for quail

[Fat Lab]

we raised them on our farm about 4 years ago and turned about 300 out and the past couple years have yet to see but about 10???? turnt pheasant out too and havent seen them either....