Quail are hard to hit

19Dec09

Have you ever been quail hunting? Quail are hard to hit. I’m not very good at hunting quail. When I have a good dog and he points them out to me, I still have a hard time hitting them little boogers. You know that they are there and sometimes you can even see them running and then all of a sudden there they go. I barely get one shot off and then they are out of range. Most of the time they just fly a few yards from you and lite in a big bunch of grass or maybe some tall weeds. You think that you are sneaking up on them but lo and behold they scare the tar out of you because they come up quicker than you were ready for them. They come up quicker because the dog didn’t get the scent and failed to point them.I love to quail hunt just because it gets me ready for pheasant hunting. I think quail are quicker than pheasants so my confidence level is quite a bit higher when I go hunting for pheasants. I’m not saying I’m a better shot when shooting pheasants, I just got more confidence. Most of the time it takes me a couple of boxes of shells to get my limit on quail, whereas with pheasants it usually just takes a box. The moral of the story is when you go quail hunting, don’t. Go pheasant hunting instead because you use less ammo. Have a great day!