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When you see a flushing dog in a video you can bet your sweet azz they are not shooting wild quail.

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Originally Posted by HomelessjOe
When you see a flushing dog in a video you can bet your sweet azz they are not shooting wild quail.

Back in the day I had a hunting buddy in Va who hunted wild quail with his Springer and they flat out destroyed them. I'm talking 20 plus years ago. Once that Springer put up the Covey she was hell on wheels with the singles. This was in the Shenandoah Valley not far from Harrisonburg Va.


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Stan's grand pappy ground swatted coveys "back in the day"....

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I have shot quite a few wild Bobs over my Springers, as well as many other species so called experts tell you that pointy dogs are required for.


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Those are Labrador retrievers, not Labrador flushers. The pointing dogs are on the ground and the retrievers ride in the wagon and are released once the birds hit the ground.

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A brood from a couple of days ago…. Was convenient to have a flushing dog.


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Yea yea yea...every quail hunter needed a lab....give us a break Gil.

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My late friend had an English Cocker that he used to retrieve downed quail. It rode on his jeep while his big EPs pointed the birds. We got behind his pointers and flushed the coveys, not his EC. His big pointers were steady to wing and shot and he used the Cocker to retrieve the birds that we downed. Some folks use Labs that also double as duck dogs. No one needs retrievers to hunt quail, nor do they need horses, dog handlers, nor mule drawn wagons, nor jeeps, but that's the way they want to do it. It really shouldn't give anyone else a problem how they prefer to hunt quail especially from those who draw their opinions based upon a vast pool of ignorance.

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After the demise of the wild quail people have hunted released birds with all kinds of dogs....(I've hunted released quail with my Boykin).

Back in the day quail hunters used Pointers and Setters they were both very capable of finding any downed birds... never saw one that couldn't.

Pointers and Setters stalked the birds and pushed them into a covey then held point over the birds keeping them in a covey until the hunter arrived...this is only possible because a wild quails defense system makes them get in a covey.

A flushing dog is not capable of doing this.

Why I waste my time explaining this to an ignorant internet nimrod is beyond me.

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I Just let us learn on our own, or in my case continue to plod along in my ignorance.
My piddling experience on wild quail spans 62 years and Yes, continues today. I continue to put down Pointers and Setters multiple days a week for a 3 month season every late fall and winter.
I shoot Wild birds, by the way.

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