Home Forums Birds & Dogs Upland Game First time eating chukar. Why?

Nothing like that to be had around here unfortunately.
Used to be bobwhite years ago before fire ants and
during the fur boom, but nothing any more.
Lots of dove in some areas.
There's a good many scattered put & take HF
places with different quail and some partridge
and assorted items.
The quail I know of for sure. We got to hunt
one of the put & take places during dove
season one year because the doves were
eating all the quail feed and the owner didn't have
any quail hunts scheduled. If it wasn't a classic
pointy doggy style field and stream worthy type
hunt, he abhorred it. Doves were the same as
bluejays and grackles to him

It would be nice to be able to pop a couple of
bobwhite for supper again.

I grew up hunting bobwhites in NW Missouri back in the 70's. Didn't see any pheasants until I hunted on my brother in laws farm in north central Kansas from 1986 to 2001. There are few quail and no pheasants where I live now in SE Kansas so I hunt chukars on preserve hunts to train my brittany. I do like eating them better than quail for sure. Did a Good Friday hunt last week to finish the preserve season and made some chukar an' dumplins for my Easter dinner.

It's basically them saying "chuk you"

Yep!

Was hunting chukars on the east side of Hell's Canyon of the Snake River in Idaho around 20 years ago, during one of those great-hatch years. Found and shot quite a few--but could hear plenty of coveys saying "chuk you" all the way across the river....

Growing up us kids were the "chukar dogs" over on 12-mile canyon where they flourished. Both up and down the hill we'd go keeping them in action for the grownups to shoot.

It was worth it because boy, are they good eating!

We used to hunt chuckars during the mid-day hours of our rifle mule deer hunts on the Deschutes River in Oregon, we used to raft in and pretty much had the place to ourselves. One year 7 rafts of chuckar hunters and their dogs came in and pretty much messed up the deer hunting.

After that, we went deer hunting a week earlier because chuckar season was closed. Boy, I missed those days! Tough choice for mid-day activity, chuckar hunting or trout and steelhead fishing!