The Four Weeks That Decide October: Quail Prep While Dove Is Still Open
The dove split closes on the 15th and quail is a month out. That gap is the most useful four weeks on the California upland calendar and the easiest to waste. What we are actually doing with ours.
Reading California's Upland Harvest: A County Map of Where the Birds Were Taken in 2023–24
We built a county-by-county map of California's ten huntable upland species from CDFW's 2023–24 harvest survey — where doves, quail, chukar and pheasant were actually taken, what the numbers do and don't tell you, and how to read them for your own scouting.
Planning a First Trip to Owens Valley Chukar Country: What We Found, and What We'll Find Out in October
We haven't been there yet.
What we have done is spend the better part of a winter evening going deep on the Owens Valley — topo maps pulled up on one screen, CDFW regulations on another, a half-dozen trip reports from forums we trust enough to read critically.