Parker Gun Collectors Association Forums  

Go Back   Parker Gun Collectors Association Forums Parker Forums Hunting with Parkers

Notices

Reply
Thread Tools Display Modes
Unread 12-11-2018, 03:18 PM   #21
Member
Bill Murphy
PGCA Lifetime
Member Since
Second Grade

Member Info
 
Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 15,521
Thanks: 6,118
Thanked 8,780 Times in 4,716 Posts

Default

This is quite the gig. Hunt out of season, shoot over the limit on a bird that is not normally a game bird, and no one there to check to see if you really released any birds. Tom Flanigan knows the game. We hunted quail in Maryland under a similar system. A $5.00 training license and you can shoot out of season, over the limit, and on Sunday, all on the assumption that you brought your own birds, with no one to check on you. We did not abuse the system, but I'm sure others did.
Bill Murphy is offline   Reply With Quote
Unread 12-11-2018, 03:56 PM   #22
Member
Wilmurt
PGCA Lifetime
Member
 
Tom Jay's Avatar

Member Info
 
Join Date: Sep 2013
Posts: 517
Thanks: 314
Thanked 806 Times in 190 Posts

Default

A kicker to what Bill just mentioned is you could also be from out of state to benefit. Just need your own state license and buy the $5 Maryland dog training permit online and your in.
Tom Jay is offline   Reply With Quote
Unread 12-11-2018, 04:56 PM   #23
Member
Tom Flanigan
PGCA Lifetime
Member
 
Tom Flanigan's Avatar

Member Info
 
Join Date: Mar 2018
Posts: 865
Thanks: 284
Thanked 1,253 Times in 425 Posts

Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill Murphy View Post
This is quite the gig. Hunt out of season, shoot over the limit on a bird that is not normally a game bird, and no one there to check to see if you really released any birds. Tom Flanigan knows the game. We hunted quail in Maryland under a similar system. A $5.00 training license and you can shoot out of season, over the limit, and on Sunday, all on the assumption that you brought your own birds, with no one to check on you. We did not abuse the system, but I'm sure others did.
Bill is right. I never abused the privilege. I imposed a personal limit of four birds on myself. That was enough. There were areas on that state land where most people didn't go and I knew where the coveys were likely to be. Most of the pressure, if you could call it that, was on the first few fields. I hunted them a lot too.
Attached Images
File Type: jpg stoney quail.jpg (137.6 KB, 109 views)
Tom Flanigan is offline   Reply With Quote
The Following 4 Users Say Thank You to Tom Flanigan For Your Post:
Unread 12-11-2018, 09:26 PM   #24
Member
Steve Hodges
PGCA Member
 
Stephen Hodges's Avatar

Member Info
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 1,915
Thanks: 6,106
Thanked 3,195 Times in 891 Posts

Default

I for one applaud our sister state to the south, something I seldom do but I think in this instance that the State of Massachusetts is doing a great thing for sportsman of there state. You can work your dogs late into the winter for not a lot of money. Massachusetts is not exactly know as the king of Quail State and I imagine that in the end there will be more quail there when the season started due to the released birds. Have fun Allen.
__________________
Daniel Webster once said ""Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoemakers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but in the mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men."
Stephen Hodges is offline   Reply With Quote
Unread 12-11-2018, 09:34 PM   #25
Member
Big D
PGCA Member
 
John Dallas's Avatar

Member Info
 
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 4,284
Thanks: 461
Thanked 3,597 Times in 1,550 Posts

Default

Know nothing about released quail, but in my years of gunning Springer field trials, the accepted knowledge was that released phez wouldn't last more than several days, between hawks, and not knowing how to forage for food
__________________
"Striving to become the man my dog thinks I am"
John Dallas is offline   Reply With Quote
The Following User Says Thank You to John Dallas For Your Post:
Unread 12-15-2018, 02:10 PM   #26
Member
Bill Murphy
PGCA Lifetime
Member Since
Second Grade

Member Info
 
Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 15,521
Thanks: 6,118
Thanked 8,780 Times in 4,716 Posts

Default

Tom will remember flushing enormous coveys of apparent field trial quail that somehow survived long enough to form these large coveys. We didn't see them in the large coveys often, but often enough to know that they had been on the loose for a good period of time.
Bill Murphy is offline   Reply With Quote
Unread 12-16-2018, 09:23 AM   #27
Member
BRDHNTR
PGCA Lifetime
Member

Member Info
 
Join Date: Nov 2012
Posts: 3,745
Thanks: 7,172
Thanked 2,695 Times in 1,233 Posts

Default

Turns out that the local bird breeder that Fish and Wildlife told me to get the birds from is out of any birds until next September. I've contacted 2 or 3 others in the state who advertise quail and they're out too. So, it looks like if I want any birds they will come out of Pennsylvania. He ships. Could get pricey so we'll see. Best laid plans......

Oh, and on Jan 14 I go in for carpal tunnel surgery on my left hand, my thumb and trigger finger are f#$%#% up. Doc says I can shoot in 2 weeks following. Now if the snow will hold off for Feb, maybe we can put up some quail...
allen newell is offline   Reply With Quote
Unread 12-16-2018, 01:44 PM   #28
Member
Wilmurt
PGCA Lifetime
Member
 
Tom Jay's Avatar

Member Info
 
Join Date: Sep 2013
Posts: 517
Thanks: 314
Thanked 806 Times in 190 Posts

Default

Sorry Allen. I got the last of the quail for dog training from your MA Fish/Wildlife contact.
Tom Jay is offline   Reply With Quote
Unread 12-16-2018, 06:40 PM   #29
Member
Tom Flanigan
PGCA Lifetime
Member
 
Tom Flanigan's Avatar

Member Info
 
Join Date: Mar 2018
Posts: 865
Thanks: 284
Thanked 1,253 Times in 425 Posts

Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill Murphy View Post
Tom will remember flushing enormous coveys of apparent field trial quail that somehow survived long enough to form these large coveys. We didn't see them in the large coveys often, but often enough to know that they had been on the loose for a good period of time.

Bill, I'm not sure the coveys were field trial quail. Our buddy Jeff M. shot at the field trials and he told me they used chukers. They may have used quail also but he didn't mention quail when I asked him what birds they used. I think most of the quail that were released were for dog training, but I could be wrong. There was a game warden that came by from time to time and he usually stopped and talked for a while. Nice guy. I mentioned my theory on natural reproduction and he nodded his head in agreement. He told me he shot every cat he saw on that property on sight. I imagine he killed quite a few of them over the years.
Tom Flanigan is offline   Reply With Quote
Unread 12-16-2018, 07:11 PM   #30
Member
Bill Murphy
PGCA Lifetime
Member Since
Second Grade

Member Info
 
Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 15,521
Thanks: 6,118
Thanked 8,780 Times in 4,716 Posts

Default

Tom, the "game warden" that used to hang out around the parking area seemed to be the kind of guy who would keep the cats in check. One day, I met him out on the road and stopped to chat. I had left the tailgate up on my truck while I hunted around the road. We were about 200 yards from the truck, chatting, and I quietly said "kennel" to Eva. She ran to the truck and jumped in. I could have blown that guy away with a breath. In the seventies, my brother in law and I hunted that property and found four or six big covies a day. The pressure was very light because the cover was very thick. My brother in law lived in an enormous old farmhouse on the river on Schiffeley Mill Road, so was only three or four miles from the property. His duck boat was moored at his back gate and we hunted ducks on the river before work as many days a week as we chose. Hurricane Agnes ran him out of that great property, but he was relocated across River Road by the Feds to a very nice home about a half mile from the river.
Bill Murphy is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 08:09 AM.

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright © 1998 - 2023, Parkerguns.org
Copyright © 2004 Design par Megatekno
- 2008 style update 3.7 avec l'autorisation de son auteur par Stradfred.