Tommorow is the opener for Quail, dove, blue and ruffed grouse here in western Oregon. I am have loaded my camping equipment, and will depart tonight. My Springer and Lab know its time, and are chomping at the bit. I thought I might spend less time this year upland bird hunting in Sep. because I have an Elk bow tag good through the month. Yesterday was the first time I ever bow hunted anything, and I just took up shooting bows about 6 weeks ago. At 11am yesterday morning I pulled my Bowtech Blackhawk back and sent a 100 grain thunderhead into the lungs of a 5 by 5 bull. So I guess the only other thing to do is go bird hunting. Good luck to you all. I will report my sucess on Tues. Feel free to chime in with your own hunts.

Tomorrow is the opener for dove here in PA. This will be my second year hunting, and my first year for dove. Good luck hunting!

tomorrow is the opener for doves in kansas (as well as most of the u.s.). it' s been raining the last 3 days, about 8inches and rising. oh well, i don' t have to worry about getting hot or carrying in water for the dogs.

tomorrow is the dove opener here in ILL also big lead sounds like your season is of to a good start sorry to hear your out of an elk tag congrats

Tomorrow Grouse season opens here in Idaho. Dog and I are ready. Heck, we were born ready.
Good luck and happy hunting to all,

Michael

Had a good day today. I limited on grouse. The quail are still a little small so I will not hunt them unless I find a covey of mature birds. My Springer really showed her stuff. She flushed all kinds of grouse and quail. To bad I could not shoot as well on the bigger quail. We limited by 9 this morning on Grouse and I spent the rest of the day trying to find some quail that wern' t so small.

2 1/2 hrs. 3 grouse. One short of a limit but it got too hot too soon. It' s a long season here, no big rush.
Good hunting,

Michael

Congrats on the bull Ryan .
We hunted the Cascades today and did pretty good on Ruff grouse ,one short of three limits . Most of the birds were in the heavy timber .

I went out yesterday afternoon and got 5 grouse, and 3 mountain quail. The dogs got a couple of good cripples that almost gave us the slip. Got a couple more quail today.

We got out today and limited on ruff ' s again , but as BL said the mountain quail are to small to shoot . We did get into about six coveys of quail so later in the season we will be back.