A state small game manager advised the Arizona Game and Fish Commission to restrict the upcoming quail hunt because of ongoing drought. Dry conditions have hampered quail reproduction across parts of ...

America’s legion of devout bird hunters spends much of the year training and working gun dogs, so many of them are forever chasing open seasons from the prairies of the Dakotas where sharptails, ...

The quail falls, leaving feathers drifting in the still air beneath the trees. I vaguely hear a couple of other shots from my friends, but I am lost, watching Gila retrieve my first-ever Mearns quail, ...

If someone were to choose a word to describe the upland game bird season in Southern Nevada, that word would be disappointing. During the past few weeks I've visited with numerous hunters who, despite ...

The quail outlook for much of Arizona may be less than optimal this year, but there is a bright spot — southeastern Arizona. “In fact, the populations for all three quail species in southeastern ...

Skip McMichael rarely carries a gun when hunting anymore. He leaves the shooting to his friend and hunting partner, Paul Hill, while he focuses on his prized hunting dogs, part of a breeding and ...

The Arizona border is home to three species of quail: Mearns, Gambels and Scaled. Submitted photo I’ve been flirting with upland bird hunting most of my life. As a teenager, I had a weimaraner named ...