A couple of us are planning to open the season in early September hunting sage grouse and sharptails along the Montana highline, then Nebraska sandhills sharptails and prairie chickens in late Sept. Ruffed grouse in northern Minnesota in Oct, pheasants in South Dakota in Nov, then more quail and pheasants in Kansas in Dec. Around Meriden , Kansas. Then close the season in Jan and Feb for quail in Arizona.
For those who think Meriden is in Conn, there is another in Kansas in wild quail country.
Some years back, I was hunting quail in Feb by Wheeler, Texas in the sandhills and thorn thickets. My buddy was a retired cardiologist, since gone, who hunted with a fine Purdey and a single pointer. We ran into a fellow from St Ansgar Iowa who had opened the season in Montana and worked his way south ahead of the snow, ending in southern Arizona. He had started with three 28ga Parker reproductions and had one remaining operable, the other two out with broken stocks. He had five Brittanies in a dog trailer, of them four were lamed up and he had one dog remaining. He was headed home to recuperate for next year.
I had remembered that plus a book written by Jim Fergus about a hunter's season long travels and thought it would be a fun thing to do. However, when I'm out for a week, its always nice to get back home.
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