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Here in ND, we have Prairie Chickens in really limited numbers, but they are huntable if you draw a tag. I could not believe how intelligent these birds are! You couldn't get within 100 yards without them flushing-and they have like zero hunting pressure. The season is only 8 days and only 50 tags are issued. I only saw one other hunter the 4 days I hunted.    Trophies are not dead animals...they are living memories. | ||
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Thanks for the great report!!! and good pics too! | |||
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what a beautiful bird.. I have been wanting to do a PC hunt for a long time now.. Got to do it one of these days.. congrats.. | |||
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Nice chicken! Just shot one this Am. Dog and I were working across the wind to loop around and hunt the terrain into the wind twords the truck. Dog cast out about 150 yards turned down wind and after about 50 more yards flipped into the wind and came back at me working scent. Locked on point about 50 yards away pointed directly at me. I walked in and a flock of 6 jumped between us. The 16 barked and the dog brought the nice mature male chicken to hand. Finished working the quarter section as we were out to rep for pheasant opener this sat. We found 3 pheasants and a covey of quail on the place. A good morning! | |||
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So far the best Prairie Chicken hunting I have found is in between Elgin, NE and Chambers, NE. They are on the western edge of the corn and are especially good eating. You're right they can be a bugger to shoot and they love to just hover over the grass and glide forever "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit"--Aristotle (384BC-322BC) | |||
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This was my first time ever seeing them. I have hunted Sharptails all my life-and I was amazed at how much they resemble each other. In the Eastern part of ND they closed the Sharptail season so no one accidentally shoots a Chicken, but you can shoot them if you have a tag for Chickens.  Trophies are not dead animals...they are living memories. | |||
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They make slightly diffent sounds and to me and most I know, sharpies look yellow/tan and chickens white/tan when they jump. | |||
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they look yum,yum.that looks like good small game country | |||
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It is GREAT small game country. We shot pheasants, Hungarian Partridge, Sharptails and Prairie Chickens on this hunt. Also had the chance at geese and ducks-just didn't have steel shot on us at the time! Trophies are not dead animals...they are living memories. | |||
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Here is a photo of the finished mount of my prairie chicken from last Fall.  Trophies are not dead animals...they are living memories. | |||
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Those are beautiful uplands, thanks for posting. Are you going to have anymore of them mounted? I recently saw a 3 bird habitat mount with two cocks strutting around 1 hen. It was super and well done. What is the limit? Good hunting, David Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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very very nice ... I shot a chicken when I was a kid back in Oklahoma .. we had it for dinner! Graybird "Make no mistake, it's not revenge he's after ... it's the reckoning." | |||
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Nomcry, Do you have any photo's of the hungarian partridge? I have a hunch they are the same as the grey partridge we have here in the UK. Congrats on the Chucks!! FB | |||
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Yes the Gray and Hungarian partridge is the same bird. http://www.iowadnr.com/wildlife/files/hungarianpartridge.html | |||
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Both the chickens I shot are mounted-one went to a local sporting goods store. I did draw two tags again this year-there are only fifty recipients for these tags in this unit, so the chicken numbers are not that great, but they are sure fun to hunt! I would really like to get a big male mounted in the Spring booming phase position, but there are usually too many pin feathers this time of year for that. I will see how it goes in a couple weeks when the season opens! Trophies are not dead animals...they are living memories. | |||
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Well guys...I got lucky and ended up in the right place at the right time again. I shot this one in the pouring rain as he was coming to feed in a bean field this morning.  Trophies are not dead animals...they are living memories. | |||
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