New Mexico Scaled Quail and Mexican Food!
 

Spent last week in southern New Mexico...one of my favorite trips of the year. Birds were down in the area we hunt but no matters we had a riot and ate Mexican food every night! Can’t wait for next year to come.

quail hunting in the great SW
 

Great fun, several years ago I shot bobwhite, gambel's, scaled, and mearns, in one season in Colorado and Arizona.

Shawn: I have a Jones four place Schutzhund trailer that you would enjoy.

Glad you got out their, hadn't seen many posts or pictures this year. Was that your GH 16?

Shawn, Thanks for posting these photos of your hunt. Those are really beautiful birds.

Coming from Newfoundland you can well imagine my culinary experience with mexican food was limited to say the least - salt codfish and caribou being what it is ....I will never forget my first true mexican meal with Phil and the great little spot on the way to mearns country ,especially the one cooked by his sister in law!

Bird hunting in southern New Mexico in January is hard to beat. Birds were down this year.

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Shawn and Mike, Do you find you need to boot your dogs where you are hunting?

The sand burrs can be bad in places so in some places boots are a must.

Boots
 

Garry, I'm from Ohio on my first quail hunt. I am ignorant of sand burrs. She didn't seem to be chewing at the bottoms of her feet afterwards, so I guess I got lucky.
Mike

We run into sand spurs in NW Kansas, but have nevr had to "boot up".
Mike, what part of Ohio are you from? I was born and raised in Belmont County, and still own a farm and work there. Grew up with tremendous grouse hunting in our area, sadly barely any here now.

Harold, I live in Pickaway county and we bought a place in Gallia county a couple years ago. I haven't seen a grouse for 20 years in Ohio.
Mike

Used to be very good grouse hunting in Gallia county, sad situation. I head north for 2 weeks a year now to try and satisfy that "grouse itch'

Great picture, sir.

I do miss the old South Carolina plates. Looks like a fun trip.

Shawn, those are beautiful birds! Did you ever have any mounted? A pair of each species of quail would look fantastic.

Here’s a couple I’ve had mounted. I sent a few gambles and mearns to the same guy that mounted these and never heard from him again. :banghead:

Thanks Shawn, very nice mounts. Sorry the other birds went MIA. That seems to be a recurring theme among taxidermists.

Scaled quail are great. I spent a week and a half camping in New Mexico this winter. Things have gotten crazy busy on my old stomping grounds. The oil field traffic was...um...monumental. That aside, I sure enjoyed the birds, the hunting, and when they showed up, the friends.
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Those are wonderful pictures. It appears you were in the right places at precisely the right times! Thank you for sharing them!

I just moved to NM From AR and have never been a big bird hunter. Curious what part of NM that is. I inherited a 12 ga. Hammer from my grandfather and would like take it out. Live in Rio Rancho.

Scaled quail
 

Those Cotton tops in that first picture are definitely mountable.

Whoa, I was typing my taxidermist name out and caught myself........:rotf:

I've hunted from Ft. Sumner to Hobbs for scaled quail