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Post by 45MAN on Feb 13, 2024 12:17:56 GMT -5
LOW QUAIL NUMBERS THROUOUT SOUTH TEXAS, APPARRENTLY THE EXTREME HEAT DURING THE SUMMER KILLED THE EGGS
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Post by Fowler on Feb 13, 2024 12:20:33 GMT -5
LOW QUAIL NUMBERS THROUOUT SOUTH TEXAS, APPARRENTLY THE EXTREME HEAT DURING THE SUMMER KILLED THE EGGS Seems every year has some catastrophe that hammers quail, drought, hail, pigs eating all of the eggs, too many predators, what not else. Life is hard for quail, too bad they are a great bird... |
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Post by sixshot on Feb 13, 2024 13:03:10 GMT -5
Rey, if I had wine & tamales for lunch I wouldn't know a quail from a turkey & my first shot would go straight in the air, I'd be laying flat on my back for sure. The one year my wife & I wintered down in south Texas I was hog hunting with some guys & we stopped in a little cafe, I think in Dixon, Texas for some lunch & they went through enough hot sauce & jalapeno's to kill a large hog. They would bite into a burger & shake their head & say "man that's good". Not for me!
Dick
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Post by 45MAN on Feb 13, 2024 16:05:48 GMT -5
LEST SOME OF YOU THINK I AM A "HIGH ROLLER" QUAIL HUNTER, I AM NOT, A GOOD FRIEND HAD AN INVITEE CANCEL SO HE INVITED ME TO TAG ALONG, 'twas MY FIRST "HIGH ROLLER" QUAIL HUNT.
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Post by sixshot on Feb 13, 2024 16:51:27 GMT -5
Oops, I think the town was Nixon, believe it was east of San Antonio!
Dick
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Post by hunter01 on Feb 13, 2024 17:30:46 GMT -5
LEST SOME OF YOU THINK I AM A "HIGH ROLLER" QUAIL HUNTER, I AM NOT, A GOOD FRIEND HAD AN INVITEE CANCEL SO HE INVITED ME TO TAG ALONG, 'twas MY FIRST "HIGH ROLLER" QUAIL HUNT. Nothing wrong with being a "HIGH ROLLER" lest you act like one!😁 |
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Post by Big Bore on Feb 13, 2024 18:21:03 GMT -5
Oops, I think the town was Nixon, believe it was east of San Antonio! Dick Nixon is in fact east of SA. In the Gonzales, Stockdale area. I’ve played several gigs in Nixon. |
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Post by 45MAN on Feb 17, 2024 14:14:11 GMT -5
WENT TO PDM WEDNESDAY (2/14/24) AND LEFT THIS MORNING (SATURDAY 2/17/24) AFTER A MID-MORNING BREAKFAST. WAS LOOKING FOR A SPIKE BUCK (NEVER SAW ONE), HOGS (SAW A SOUNDER YESTERDAY BUT A KILL ELUDED US) AND COW NILGAI. WEDNESDAY WAS OVERCAST, WINDY AND SLOW. THURSDAY WAS ALSO SLOW. WAS DRIZZLY AND WET ALL DAY YESTERDAY AND COLDER AND STILL DRIZZLY THIS MORNING. THE NILGAI WERE NOT OUT AND ABOUT IN WET WEATHER. WTH, NO HARM IN DRIVING AROUND AND LOOKING, SO OUT WE WENT DRIVING AROUND THIS MORNING, ME, MY COUSIN BOB, MY Compadre OSCAR AND MY FELLOW LESSEE JAIME, OSCAR WAS LOOKING FOR A COW NILGAI AND I WAS ARMED AND DANGEROUS WITH A SAVAGE 99 IN 22 SAVAGE HP LOOKING FOR A SPIKE. WE HEADED EAST AND ON THE NORTH FENCE LINE ARE A BULL AND COW NILGAI, YOUNG BUT NOT BABIES, LOOKING AT US. ME AND JAIME ID THE COW AS A COW NILGAI AND TELL OSCAR TO GET OUT AND SHOOT. THE 270 GERMAN WEATHERBY MAG DID ITS JOB, THE COW STRUGGLED INTO THE BRUSH AND DROPPED DEAD WITHIN 40 YARDS OR SO OF THE POI. MY Compadre MAY HAVE COST THAT YOUNG BULL HIS FIRST PIECE OF ... LIVE WEIGHT ON THE COW WAS 212.4lbs, OUGHT TO BE MIGHTY FINE VENISON. PULLED HER OUT OF THE BRUSH WITH A ROPE AND MY TRUCK. SEE PICTURES: 
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Post by bigbrowndog on Feb 17, 2024 18:14:33 GMT -5
Are the ribs as fatty and good looking as the ones on the addax?? Congrats to Oscar.
Trapr
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Post by Big Bore on Feb 17, 2024 19:36:14 GMT -5
Nice! Nilgai are very high on my list. Never killed one.
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Post by 45MAN on Feb 17, 2024 20:25:24 GMT -5
Are the ribs as fatty and good looking as the ones on the addax?? Congrats to Oscar. Trapr WILL SEE NEXT WEEK WHEN I GO BACK TO PDM (LETTING HER HANG & AGE IN THE COOLER). |
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Post by Burnston on Feb 20, 2024 9:34:03 GMT -5
LOW QUAIL NUMBERS THROUOUT SOUTH TEXAS, APPARRENTLY THE EXTREME HEAT DURING THE SUMMER KILLED THE EGGS We’ve started addressing this on our Missouri spread. At the risk of sounding like a shameless flower child, it is indisputable, even to a generational cattleman like me that the restoration and maintenance of old native grasses will directly impact and increase quail, turkey, cotton tail, and even deer populations. It’s a years long process but will eventually destroy our dependence on hay, even in the winter, increase the quality of our beef and, my favorite part, restore the quail populations. I’m hoping to have a good lead on this effort by the time my son is old enough to wield a 12 gauge. |
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Post by bula on Feb 20, 2024 12:08:18 GMT -5
Here in far N.E. Ohio, a couple of artic like winters in the 70's wiped out our quail. Have hunted them in Va.. YUM..
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Post by 45MAN on Feb 20, 2024 21:45:05 GMT -5
CAME TO PDM TODAY, TRYING TO FILL MY SPIKE BUCK TAG USING A SAVAGE 99 IN 22 SAVAGE HIGH POWER. GLASSED A LOT OF DOES TODAY, DID NOT SEE ANY SPIKES.
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Post by 45MAN on Feb 21, 2024 21:04:48 GMT -5
2/21/24 @ 8:00 p.m. CST: DENVER CAME IN THIS MORNING, NO HOG NOR SPIKE SIGHTINGS. WILL TRY AGAIN FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS IN THE MORNING AND THEN I NEED TO HEAD HOME.
ALTHOUGH THE SEASON ENDS ON 2/29/24 TOMORROW MAY BE MY LAST HUNT AS I HAVE OTHER MATTERS TO TEND TO.
FOR SUPPER WE HAD THE TENDERLOINS OFF THE COW NILGAI MY Compadre OSCAR KILLED LAST SATURDAY. COOKED MEDIUM OVER MESQUITE COALS, EXCELLENT.
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