Grouse Drumming Survey

[mobirdhunter]

Although I'm not in favor of returning to the old days of "shoot every hawk you see," I do think that some killing of hawks might be in order. I know that predator populations are dependent upon prey levels, but I think we have come too far to assume that humans don't factor into the equation. Why not harvest some avian predators? I know the reason...we have created a mindset among the non-hunting public to not kill any apex prey species. It makes no biological sense to me. That's my opinion...probably not humble enough.

[Stan Hillis]

Originally Posted by Garry L Gordon

Although I'm not in favor of returning to the old days of "shoot every hawk you see," I do think that some killing of hawks might be in order. I know that predator populations are dependent upon prey levels, but I think we have come too far to assume that humans don't factor into the equation. Why not harvest some avian predators? I know the reason...we have created a mindset among the non-hunting public to not kill any apex prey species. It makes no biological sense to me. That's my opinion...probably not humble enough.

You nailed it, Garry. I could not have expressed it that well.

[Keith Doty]

Any good hawk recipes? They hammer our quail in South Texas.

[Mike of the Mountain]

Originally Posted by Keith Doty

Any good hawk recipes? They hammer our quail in South Texas.

Use a barred owl recipe, they taste very similar. Just sayin', for a friend.

[Keith Doty]

I hunted with a dog handler a few years ago that carried a boomerang. When the Blue Quail want to run in front of a point, he'd whip the boomerang over them and, not always, but frequently they would freeze in cover.