Originally Posted by
Saltydog235
On many occasions I have had birds that not only survived a release but coveyed up and thrived. There’s 3 coveys I know of on our club in Gtown that were started on release birds. Does it always happen, nope but occasionally it does.
My dad and I use to work our dogs on a place in Grey Court when I lived in the upstate. Use to get Wisconsin giants IIRC from a guy up there. I’d work the dogs and let my dad shoot but as he got older, he wasn’t a very good shot so he missed a lot. Those missed birds coveyed up too. One day we pulled the truck up and Ike my male GSP jumped out of the truck and flipped around in mid air, I swear that dog locked up on point in mid air because when he landed he was frozen. My female Abby was locked up standing on the back seat. My dad went to step out of the truck and about 15 birds blew up at his feet. He couldn’t shoot, he didn’t even have a gun. I’ll never forget the look Ike gave him. It was like look dad, that was some acrobatic shit I did locking up on point in mid air and sticking the landing, least you could do is shoot.
That was a generalization on my part. There are most certainly instances where released birds survive and breed. But in my decade of managing wildlife and time spent in the woods those instances a far less common than finding quail feathers where a hawk or some ground predator has had a snack.
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