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Partridge

by ugly dogs , Posted to Fishing Buddy on 09/12/2009 8:42 PM | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Location: ND
What is the best kind of cover to find partridge?
Re: Partridge
by deerhuntersj on 09/12/2009 10:33 PM | Reply #1 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Joined: 03/22/2005
Location: ND
anything you just need to start walking in like fence lines, slough bottoms in fields that farmers have not combined, by this i mean the field is combined just not the slough bottoms that are full of weeds and grass. Not that its a good thing to be a ROADY but in the mornings it's good to drive until you see a covey and go blast them.
Re: Partridge
by MossyMO on 09/12/2009 10:47 PM | Reply #2 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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I do not road hunt partridge, but I will say on my way to work in the mornings while it is still dark, the partridge are sitting on the gravel roads. It is a method to spot where they are, where they fly to and then use a hawk call as you approach them so they will hunker down  for you to get with in shooting distance.

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Re: Partridge
by Horsager on 09/12/2009 11:01 PM | Reply #3 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Joined: 08/12/2003
Location: ND
Tree rows with wheat stubble have always been consistant producers for me.
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Re: Partridge
by deerhuntersj on 09/13/2009 00:14 AM | Reply #4 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Location: ND
i didn't say that i road hunt only for them. You are telling me that you have never seen a covey and watched them land and go out to shoot them. BS
Re: Partridge
by Geothermal on 09/13/2009 00:27 AM | Reply #5 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Joined: 07/14/2009
Location: ND
MossyMO Said:
 and then use a hawk call as you approach them so they will hunker down  for you to get with in shooting distance.
I learn something new every day on here , I should have joined years ago.

Re: Partridge
by MossyMO on 09/13/2009 00:35 AM | Reply #6 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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deerhuntersj
I was not implying that you road hunt for them only; if you took it that way I apologize.

Why I replied to this post was to give an idea of spotting and taking the birds which would be legal and also advantageous.

As for your BS question - every chance I can, and I have time.
I find this scenario too many times in the morning; I am either trying to be to work on time, meeting another vehicle or things are not just lining up just right. But every now and then I gain a few birds during the dawn. It is not uncommon for me to have breasted birds in my lunchbox !!!

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Re: Partridge
by murdock1978 on 09/13/2009 05:37 AM | Reply #7 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Location: ND
Can i ask a stupid Question??whats aHawk Call??
Re: Partridge
by Jiffy on 09/13/2009 07:29 AM | Reply #8 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Location: ND

They are tastey little critters!  To be rather honest, I've killed most of mine while hunting for other things.  They do scare the hell out of you when they get up if you're not expecting it.  Not quite as bad as quail but it gets the heart pumping.

Best cover I've found for them are pear trees......

Actually any cover in or around stubble is usually good.  Most places you find grouse, you're apt to find Huns. 

If you can find them huddled together during a snow storm, whip out the 8 shot and you can ground pound damn near all of them with one shot. 

(disclaimer for the slow ones....that was a joke, very true, but a joke.)
Re: Partridge
by Jiffy on 09/13/2009 07:32 AM | Reply #9 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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murdock1978 Said:
Can i ask a stupid Question??whats aHawk Call??

Although I've never used one a hawk call is just as it sounds.  A call you blow that sounds like a hawk.  Although I always thought it was supposed to make them flush.  Could be wrong on that.....
Re: Partridge
by bobkat on 09/13/2009 08:01 AM | Reply #10 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Joined: 12/16/2001
Location: ND
I used to see hawk calls (presumably the scream of a redtail) advertised but haven't seen them lately.  That has to be one call I've never owned or used!
Are they supposed to flush game like Jiffy said, or make them hold tighter so you can get up to them?  
Re: Partridge
by bobkat on 09/13/2009 08:03 AM | Reply #11 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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A redtail can't catch them in the air but sure can get em on the ground, so to me it might make more sense that it  might make them flush like Jiffy said. 
A falcon type call might make them sit tighter..??...  Falcons nail em in the air so their call might make them sit tighter?? 
Re: Partridge
by riverview on 09/13/2009 08:11 AM | Reply #12 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Joined: 12/25/2008
Location: ND
I love hunting huns, It is the only upland bird that lives in the seed everything work it 6 times in the fall black desert i live in. And yes jiffy i have seen whole coveys in a 10 in circle.  i have had good lick hunting huns in the n/w corner of the state. great fun when you get in a drainage and there are 6 coveys within 2 miles.  last year i slow cooked 6 plucked huns in my brinkman smoker very good eats.
Re: Partridge
by murdock1978 on 09/13/2009 10:17 AM | Reply #13 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Just got done ordering my hawk call.It's called a Screamer hawk call
Re: Partridge
by Geothermal on 09/13/2009 10:27 AM | Reply #14 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Joined: 07/14/2009
Location: ND
murdock1978 Said:

Just got done ordering my hawk call.It's called a Screamer hawk call

I hope this isn't a good prank they are playing on us murdock,  That call just might  make them run and scatter and hide in gopher holes.

Re: Partridge
by Lord Tom Tom Incarnate on 09/13/2009 10:48 AM | Reply #15 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Location: ND
Partridge:
I believe that Hungarian partridge either enjoy or need to be around cattle. I always seem to find them either near a pasture (in a thick bush along the roadside, on the road getting grit (sunrise/sunset) or actually sitting in the pasture).   Next time someone finds a covey look around for a farm or cattle I guarantee there will be cattle around (within a mile or closer). I am not sure if it is because the mother partridge needs to have access to bugs to feed her chicks (partridge can’t be raised domestically because a mother is necessary to regurgitate bugs – I think) and there is easy picking around manure.  Maybe they just stay close to where they were raised as chicks. 
To answer your question:
1.       Gravel road
2.       Cattle/farmstead
3.       Thick bushes
If you find these variables, start looking for partridge. When you find them and they flush, watch them land and go after them.
This is just my theory, but it has paid off in the past.
Hawk Call:
I own one along with every other hunting gadget that exists. I don’t care how bad the economy is. Hunters will always find a way buy the latest and greatest thing to give them an advantage in the field. I have used the hawk call to freeze running wounded pheasants. A few years ago, I made a long shot and dropped a rooster in a stubble field. He hit the ground running. I watched him bolting down a stubble row. I pulled the hawk call out and gave it a cry “key-eye…key-eye” and that fat pheasant just froze. I walked right over to him and picked him up.


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Re: Partridge
by beedoggs1 on 09/13/2009 11:01 AM | Reply #16 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Joined: 12/11/2008
Location: ND
i use a hawk screamer during late december to keep wild flushing pheasants on the ground. I personally have seen two hawks hold a whole covey of pheasants to the ground for hours. It definitely works, and works for me. I have never tried it on partridge though, I jump them once, and watch where they go, and then never really have a problem on the second go round. They seem to sit pretty tight then.
Re: Partridge
by Jiffy on 09/13/2009 1:34 PM | Reply #17 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Location: ND
Intresting..
Re: Partridge
by thorson on 09/13/2009 4:22 PM | Reply #18 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Joined: 02/25/2005
Location: NE
Works on grouse and prairie chickens in Nebraska too!!
Re: Partridge
by Jiffy on 09/14/2009 07:08 AM | Reply #19 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Joined: 01/08/2002
Location: ND
murdock1978 Said:

Just got done ordering my hawk call.It's called a Screamer hawk call

That looks more like a "Jenna Jameson Call".....
Re: Partridge
by marksman on 09/14/2009 2:43 PM | Reply #20 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Location: ND
Jiffy:

They do not scare a person near as bad as me on a horse and just minding your own business and then the horse steps in the covey. It really does test your ability to stay in the saddle  with a 3ry old horse..

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