Steve,
I googled Mearns Quail and read some older postings about hunts around Patagonia, AZ. I drove forest roads and paid attention to parked trucks with dog kennels. I later went to those locations and only bumped a single covey at each. I think the quail are pressured by guides and out of...
As a resident, I do not have a problem with increasing the fees for my hunting licenses and or tags.
What I don't think is fair, is the archery hunters. If they do not harvest during archery season, they hunt again during general season with a rifle. End that - make them chose their weapon...
I see turkeys on private land in MT. The landowners say they don't like them, yet they don't allow non family members to hunt turkeys on their land.
If you get more hunting locations then you can hunt, send me a PM.
After wanting to hunt these quail the last couple of years, I went this year and found a few. Found them without a dog. Once I located their habitat, finding them was not too difficult. The road trip there and back was excellent, no snow on the roads either way.
I have hunted 700 for many years. I saw a nice average buck the first day. Did not see antelope many places where we normally see them. The bands we saw were small compared to years past, when we would see 12+ in a band. We were seeing bands of 6-9 does without bucks. On the fourth day I decided...
I sold 5 guns on GB. I gave them my bank account so they could deposit 0.02 cents into it to see if I was legit. They removed the 0.02 cents later to verify I was legit.
They asked for my CC info, which is where they took their fees out of the guns sold. One person was a non-paying bidder, and...