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Hello-
Will be in Tucson in the next couple weeks and wanted to find a quail guide in the area to hunt with one day while I am out there.
Any recommendations?
Thanks for any help!
Cory
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Try Dave Brown. His website is Dave Brown Outfitters. Dave operates out of Patagonia, near Tucson. Dave is an excellent guide and has really fine dogs who will make the best of a tough season for quail in Arizona.
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I plan to be in Tucson in a couple weeks, too, visiting my eldest son and his family. He has me hooked up with a quail hunting member of his church who also said for me not to get my hopes up, as it was a bad year for the quail.
What kind of quail might we expect to get into around Tucson besides Gambel's, Rich? Any scaled or Mearn's?
SRH
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Stan,
All the above quail, but you'll need to drive quite a bit to get them.
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Stan,
We hunted between Patagonia and the Tombstone area for four days last month. We flushed scaled quail and Gambel's, and bagged a few scalies and a bunch of dove, which were in season at the time and very plentiful. We also hunted in Mearns habitat for two days, but couldn't locate any coveys. Based on our limited sample, I would say that the Mearns population was the scarcest and most affected by the drought. The countryside is so beautiful that with good friends, good dogs and spectacular scenery, the hunting is worthwhile, no matter how hard the quail are to find.
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It's really ironic that we're literally tripping over Gambels Quail in the subdivisions in the Phoenix area. Naturally these are off limits to hunting.
Jim
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Heading to AZ next week to hunt scalies and gambels. They are a lot of fun. I agree, Mearns country is beautiful.
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Cory,
Send me an email at couse3pt@cox.net I will give you the name of a really great guide with that runs some of the best English Pointers around. If he has an opening he will show you some good bird hunting.
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You guys that run dogs in Arizona, how do you keep the cactus off them and out of their paws? I was in Tucson last year and my dogs only lasted abut an hour. Coryreb, don't mean to highjack your thread.
Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
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In the high desert around Tombstone and in the Coronado National Forest Mearns habitat, we were at 4-5000 ft. above sea level. Cactus were much less of a factor. I don't recall any of the dogs we were with having a problem. We definitely saw more cactus and more varieties of cactus as the altitude dropped down to sea level, heading back to Phoenix.
Rich
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