Don't put undue confidence in your Game and Fish department when it comes to setting limits in the interest of the game birds. These guys are bureaucrats with other motives burning them too. AZ quail hunters had to raise a real stink to get Game and Fish to drop the bag limit on Mearn's Quail to 8 from 15 when it became apparent the drought and the hunting pressure were just too much together. Game and Fish didn't want to drop the limit from 15 because they thought it was a draw to out of state hunters to be able to come and be able to shoot 15 birds a day assisted by guides with trailer loads of dogs in a mild climate during the late season from Nov through Mid Feb - a plus for the tourism dollar. Mearns are a very tight holding bird which makes them especially vulnerable to good dogs. Game and Fish sells out on elk too if the cattlemen raise too much stink about elk taking too much of the public land graze.
Last edited by Jerry V Lape; 01/27/07 01:10 AM.
