I'm back from my 2nd Chuckar hunt

Iron Worker

Iron Worker

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I'm a hiker, and I work out in the gym. I am hunting Chuckars in the High Desert Mountains of Northern Nevada. We're talking about an ultra-rugged terrain with large and small boulders everywhere (while climbing up a steep hill), which has no trails to walk on. That's where they are; I watched where to step and occasionally looked at the dogs. A once false step and you'll fall, break, or twist something; regardless, it was fun and a tremendous workout. I'm ready to go back.
 
Iron Worker said:
I'm a hiker, and I work out in the gym. I am hunting Chuckars in the High Desert Mountains of Northern Nevada. We're talking about an ultra-rugged terrain with large and small boulders everywhere (while climbing up a steep hill), which has no trails to walk on. That's where they are; I watched where to step and occasionally looked at the dogs. A once false step and you'll fall, break, or twist something; regardless, it was fun and a tremendous workout. I'm ready to go back.
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I may have missed it on your other thread but which choke did you decide on and was it the correct choice? Secondly how many flushes or points did the dogs get?
I haven't hunted wild birds in their natural habitat only pen raised that we released and I'm a bit jealous.
 
birddog 68 said:
I may have missed it on your other thread but which choke did you decide on and was it the correct choice? Secondly how many flushes or points did the dogs get?
I haven't hunted wild birds in their natural habitat only pen raised that we released and I'm a bit jealous.
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Just to let you know, Modified choke. The dogs had several points, but my partner said they were on sents. Only a couple of flushes, my partner said, the area must have been heavily hunted before us. Also, his dogs weren't behaving as he wanted; next up for his dogs were shock collars.
 
That's surprising. Beretta A400 is known as one of the softest recoiling guns out there. I see your model is a 3.5 inch. That's more of a waterfowl model. What load are you using for chuckar?
 
Typical chukar terrain. We used to locate them, then circle around to pop over a small ridge within 10 or 20 yards. Hit them with a 12 ga. 2-3/4 and down they went. Lots easier to kill than pheasant. Sorta like quail hunting, except when they flush they fly about a mile across the canyon. Very tasty.
 
Iron Worker said:
I'm a hiker, and I work out in the gym. I am hunting Chuckars in the High Desert Mountains of Northern Nevada. We're talking about an ultra-rugged terrain with large and small boulders everywhere (while climbing up a steep hill), which has no trails to walk on. That's where they are; I watched where to step and occasionally looked at the dogs. A once false step and you'll fall, break, or twist something; regardless, it was fun and a tremendous workout. I'm ready to go back.
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Such a fun bird to hunt but tough to get in their neighborhood. When I lived in Vegas we hunted north of town around Boulder Spring and Big Lime Mtn. and saw plenty of birds, killed a few. Also hunted NE of Vegas in an area called Whitney Pocket and shot gambel's quail, blue quail and chukar on the same trip several times!
 

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