There are still places where it’s possible to take 3 or more species in a single walk.

Its taken me a while to figure out that I’d rather have a chance at a multiple species hunt than filling bag limits each day on a single species. Many times I have had the opportunity to take the third species but I have flat out missed, didn’t buy the required license (fall turkey), or didn’t have the required nontoxic shot (snipe) to take the third species in a single walk.

In the north woods, I have taken sharptailed grouse, ruffed grouse, and snipe in a single walk. Out on the prairies, i have taken pheasant, sharptails, and a hun in a single walk.

Some close calls that I will always remember. Once in Kansas, I had a few bobwhites and a rooster in the bag. The WIHA I was walking looked like prairie chicken habitat. I criss crossed the grass praying for a chicken only to find hen pheasant after hen pheasant. Then once back at the rig, gun unloaded and cased, dogs kenneled. As I looked out the windshield as I climbed in the truck a flock of 20 or so chickens flew directly over and landed on private just to rub a bit more salt in the wound. Last season I had an amazing walk, I had 2 roosters and 3 sharptails in the bag when I got back to the truck. But what has made my wife think Im crazy the last few months by my spontaneous shaking of the head an a few chuckles. Is that on that same walk the dogs and I moved 2 coveys of Huns. The first covey my wirehair had locked down but as I just crossed into gun range she decided to take one step and busted the covey. I marked were they flew to and headed that direction. On the way, another covey flushed out of range but close enough to where I marked the original covey land that I thought I just had missed marked the original covey. I walked to my mark anyway, there was no good way to approach with out being detected and from my mark the original covey flushed out of range.