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Yeah, so westerners, this won't interest you too much...

Back in the day, I used to muskrat trap with my dad. It was 4 weeks, from mid March to mid April, of getting up before school, checking the traps, picking up old ones, setting new ones, and of course, collecting rats, then doing the same thing again in the afternoon. It was back then - mid 80's - that I remember seeing the last of the Hungarian partridge in this area. They'd scare the crap out of me while I was walking the drainage ditches, flushing within 20 feet, chuckling at my recoil. Today, on the way back from picking up meds for geriatric GSP, I saw these guys - less than half a click from my front door:

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Not the greatest pic, but that's not the point - I'm super stoked about seeing these guys again.
 
Used to be lots of Huns in Alberta. Still run into a bunch once in while out in the hay fields and the crop land. I never could hit one of them. I raise pheasants and Chukars here just so I can eat one as I never did manage to shoot one of them either.
 
I still get excited when I see huns, doesn't matter if they are "common" here! Our farmland upland game birds are under extreme pressure of habitat loss, some bad winters, rainy nesting conditions, field sprayers, predators, etc. etc.
However, I had sharptails nest on my little 100 acre patch of native prairie for the first time in my life this past spring. I'm sure I was as excited as you to see the young ones in August. Left them all for seed, maybe we'll have a local huntable population in a couple years.
Our S. Sask. huns have had several bad years in a row. This year I only shot one. As recently as 8-10 years ago it was not unusual to take a limit of 10 huns a day. So congratulations! take good care of those birds. Hope you get to enjoy respectfully hunting a few in the future!
 
I didn't realize they were all that rare. There is a small flock of them at our trucking terminal inside Regina city limits. Granted there is a grain processing place right next door, and they drop a lot of grain and chaff all over the parking lot. Free food!
Between the huns and the rabbits, I'm surprised that there is anything left on the ground, but that place spills a lot!
Maybe 4 or 5 this time of year, but there was a dozen or more earlier in the fall...
 
Hey I love bird hunting and was thinking of heading out to Saskatchewan for some hun hunting. Can anyone tell me a general area that would be a good bet. Any help would be appreciated as I will be coming from Ontario. Also when does the season start.
 
nice... I also enjoy seeing huns and sharp-tails at ANY time. When I was a kid in NB, I used to stare for hours at that page in my bird book that had all the upland birds and I dreamt of shooting huns. They had all died out from NB by then, having been relatively common in the 50's & 60's. Looks like they're fading out of Nova Scotia too, but PEI still has decent numbers. A few decades later my dream came tue in eastern Alberta when I got a double on the first flock I ever flushed. I managed to bag a few more over the years - but they're still fairly scarce in northern Alberta - more common in the south. I think they'd do well here in the Peace area of BC, but there would have to be a release program to get them started. Unlikely to happen, as I imagine the gov't would want to avoid any potential impact to the native sharp-tails.
 
Raton57 said:
Used to be lots of Huns in Alberta. Still run into a bunch once in while out in the hay fields and the crop land. I never could hit one of them. I raise pheasants and Chukars here just so I can eat one as I never did manage to shoot one of them either.
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Saw a flock of Huns in north east Calgary, just off Barlow trail, yesterday. Bit of a surprise.:)

Grizz
 
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