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#620818 10/16/22 06:32 PM
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Anyone on our illustrious forum ever hunted Chachalaca?


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Tough to get access to. South Texas is almost universally private.
In my travels chachalaca and elegant quail have eluded me.

If you make enough calls, and pay enough, the barriers could be mitigated.


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How about Mexico, or further south?


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Going to need to cross the river have a friend that has a ranch in old Mexico if interested .

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Can’t say.
I focus my specimen collecting on those native to the US, excluding the exotics running around Hawaii as well.

Going after Harlequin ducks, Barrows Goldeneye, and Aleutian teal, this week as a matter-of-fact.


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I hadn't heard or thought about the chachalaca in long time. One of my cousins is a bird hunter in Southeast Texas. I found this from Texas Parks and Wildlife site :https://tpwd.texas.gov/landwater/land/habitats/southtx_plain/upland_birds/chachalaca.phtml

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Thanks!
Gives me another critter to chase.


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A while back, I gave them a good go, the Rio Grande was visible, maybe a couple hundred yards away. I saw a few, but came up empty, for me it was very brief glimses. I hunted clumps of nasty, thick brush, basically impossible for any sort of decent dog work, for the areas I was in. Mesquite, great for wood charcoal, but much of it was thorny brush, it was no fun. It was just some very limited experiences, I'm sure other have had much better, but I don't know if I would be over tickled being in isolated brush that far south nowadays. Go get 'em Stan, maybe you can also pick up a whitewing if you haven't gotten one of those before. Best of luck.

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I don't plan on trying to hunt them with the border situation as bad as it is now, illegals and all. My curiosity was piqued about them when I saw a short clip on a hunting channel on television yesterday afternoon. I had never heard of them and immediately looked them up and read about them. Not that they look alike but they remind me somewhat of a capercaillie in size, and habit. Every picture I saw of them showed them in a tree. Interesting bird.


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Stan-- isn't this area you detailed in SW Texas much the same as shown in the Cormac McCarthy novel (and later-movie) "No Country For Old Men"?? RWTF?


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