The last few years? We use to hunt the shart out of them in the 80’s. Are they still around or did the go the way of quail? Timberdoodles for you Yankees
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They still have reasonably healthy populations. Not a bird I’ve ever hunted. Have been flushing more quail recently than in years past.
Is it anything like a snipe? You ever been snipe hunting?
Interesting you brought this up. Mossy oak had a podcast this last year on them. It was very interesting.
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My ex-wife hunts cockwoods i hear
We used to shoot them while quail hunting, but at least in the areas I hunt in Oktibbeha County, they are as rare as wild quail and honest politicians these days.
I see one from time to time right at day break and right before dark when I’m deer and duck hunting. There was one day I was deer hunting in the delta a few years ago and jumped 8 or so separate birds. Most I’ve ever seen.
It is similar to a snipe or a rail. Small bird with a long thin beak. I actually have hunted the real snipe around here. Whenever it snows here you can find them around open water creeks.
Used to see them all the time when hunting in the Tombigbee River bottoms. Most of the time we kicked them up around the cane thickets. Haven hunted there in many years now and never see them on my place in Eastern Noxubee County.
I shot one about 25 years ago in south MS on an afternoon wood duck hunt. That was the last one I have seen in MS.
I know some people that hunt them in NJ and PA but they may shoot a hand full every year.
I know some people that hunt them in NJ and PA but they may shoot a hand full every year.