Back from Iowa

[carbonhunter]

Just got back a couple of hours ago, from my first Iowa trip of the year.
It was a great weekend, a bit warm as the temp. hit 76 on saturday.

All in all we saw 13 roosters, and 16 hens. The numbers may be down but i could tell. Its kinda funny it always seems that when the IDNR says the numbers are down we see more birds than usuall, when they say the numbers are up is seems we see less
more good news comes in the form of little blurry rockets, the quail numbers seem to be coming back up, several years ago a farmer took out a brushy fence row that borders my uncles property and hid, he had no right to do so but what is done is done, the fence row was the home af two large coveys of quail, after that we hardly ever saw any of the coveys, two years ago we started to see a small covey 8-12 birds that moved into a huge draw on the property, well the covey seems to be doing great and another bevey has joined them we ended up seeing about 30 of the little rockets taking home 4 of them, they still arnt to the leve; of hunting singles but as long as old man winter holds off all will be back to normal. Also saw a real nice 13 point about 30 yards away following a doe out of a draw as we took a break friday afternoon. looking forward to being back next weekend and hoefully some cooler temps.

here are some pics of dad and the dogs with there bounty.

[Tominator]

great story

great pics Aaron. that's some beautiful land out there.

good job on the birds. i notice you don't say who got the birds. you or dad?

nice dogs.

[Nut]

Great pics and thanks for sharing

[huntn4bucks]

Nice pics! One of my hunting buddies is in Iowa pheasant hunting right now.

[Jeramie]

Man I would love to bird hunt. The quail are thin around here and pheasants are non-existent. There are some farther north on the Kansas line but not anywhere around here....

Great pics!

[wyohunter]

nice pics, sounds like you had a great hunt even if the bird numbers are down