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  • jtb81100

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    May 28, 2012
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    I'm seriously considering doing a guided pheasant, quail, and chukar hunt this year. I'd also like to try to get my granddad to go as well. He used to bird hunt a lot before I was born and we never got around to hunting together before he started having health problems. No clue if he would be interested, but if I have an answer for some of his possible objections/worried before talking to him I have a better chance to get him to go. It is one of those things I'd love to have memories of when he isn't around anymore. He is not able to walk for long distances or on uneven ground very well so he would need to hunt from some type of vehicle. I already have the link for those permits and the rules.

    Does anybody know for sure of any outfitters that do or don't accomodate hunters who can shoot from a vehicle?

    Obviously a car or truck is a possibility, but does anybody know of a company that does day rentals of a mobility cart/scooter or side by side atv that would be appropriate (assuming an outfitter doesn't have one of their own).

    Has anybody either hunted this way or with somebody who has? If so any tips or things to be aware of or think about?
     

    John from MD

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    May 12, 2005
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    I suggest that you contact the DNR and ask about outfitters that have hunts for people with disabilities. You can also try the county Commission on Disabilities if they have one.
     

    JamesDong

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    Aug 13, 2020
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    It is legal for disabled to hunt from a vehicle and there are some places set up for it. I can't see hunting pheasant like that unless it's totally canned.
     

    MaxVO2

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    I'm seriously considering doing a guided pheasant, quail, and chukar hunt this year. I'd also like to try to get my granddad to go as well. He used to bird hunt a lot before I was born and we never got around to hunting together before he started having health problems. No clue if he would be interested, but if I have an answer for some of his possible objections/worried before talking to him I have a better chance to get him to go. It is one of those things I'd love to have memories of when he isn't around anymore. He is not able to walk for long distances or on uneven ground very well so he would need to hunt from some type of vehicle. I already have the link for those permits and the rules.

    Does anybody know for sure of any outfitters that do or don't accomodate hunters who can shoot from a vehicle?

    Obviously a car or truck is a possibility, but does anybody know of a company that does day rentals of a mobility cart/scooter or side by side atv that would be appropriate (assuming an outfitter doesn't have one of their own).

    Has anybody either hunted this way or with somebody who has? If so any tips or things to be aware of or think about?

    *****It's doable., When I went to Botswana and Zambia, there were a number of folks who were a bit frail, or perhaps not in the best of shape to go traditional hunting who were put on an ATV with a guide and their guns, and that's how they got around once in the designated hunting areas. I also saw a few pickup trucks with some cool rifle rests and a seat (basically a bench rest bolted down in a pickup truck bed.. ), and people would shoot game from that position - it had wheelchair mounting rails with some kind of locking mechanism. I've never seen this setup in the USA, but there ARE managed hunts for folks with varying disabilities. A link for deer is below - no doubt there are others for pheasants or other game as well, in other parts of the country - perhaps closer to us here.

    I'm familiar with several of the wildlife conservation centers listed mentioned as options below, and know they do accommodate folks with disabilities, etc..

    https://huntfish.mdc.mo.gov/hunting...aged-hunts/managed-hunts-hunters-disabilities

    Good luck, and I hope you can spend some quality time with your grand dad like that. You would both remember it forever.
     

    jtb81100

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    May 28, 2012
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    It is legal for disabled to hunt from a vehicle and there are some places set up for it. I can't see hunting pheasant like that unless it's totally canned.

    Wild pheasant in MD is pretty rare these days. At the places I've been pricing, you "buy" a number of birds that they release before you go hunting (no clue how long before). Then either they take you with their dogs or you rent the field to hunt with yours.
     

    Uncle Duke

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    I've heard of them doing this out in pheasant country. They will position hunters with disabilities stationary at the ends of fields, or at the breaks in field sections. Then they will have others walk the fields.

    Back when pheasant were available in Maryland, you were always wise to really pay attention when you get to the end of a field. Pheasant will sometimes tend to hold tight, and will oftentimes run undetected until they are pushed out of available cover. Then they will flush. I've never seen a disabled hunt, but because of this tendency that I remember well , I can see this exact method working for pheasant for disabled folks.

    I hope you can get a hunt with your granddad!
     

    Biggfoot44

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    Aug 2, 2009
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    My Uncle ( disabled in industrial accident ) hunters elk and mulie from vehicle ( local to him ) .

    Didn't need a guide or outfitter . Drove his own '55 Chevy 4 x 4 , but had a friend or relative with him for dragging and field dressing .
     

    JamesDong

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    Wild pheasant in MD is pretty rare these days. At the places I've been pricing, you "buy" a number of birds that they release before you go hunting (no clue how long before). Then either they take you with their dogs or you rent the field to hunt with yours.

    Interesting, wonder how much per bird? Not sure I'd really like that but it is interesting... go skeet shooting then marinade the fragmented clays. Shame, in the 70's Westminster and surrounding area was pheasant country. Seems the experts all have a different blame as to what happened to them.
     

    jtb81100

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    May 28, 2012
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    Western HoCo
    Interesting, wonder how much per bird? Not sure I'd really like that but it is interesting... go skeet shooting then marinade the fragmented clays. Shame, in the 70's Westminster and surrounding area was pheasant country. Seems the experts all have a different blame as to what happened to them.

    It is a combination of over development, poor game managment in the 70s and 80s, and an increase in the number of predators. My granddad used to hunt in Carroll from the 50s through the 70s. He has pictures of him at what is now Liberty Reservoir (had to have been taken in the early 50s). That project destroyed a lot of habitat (the shoreline is around 80 miles long). I live in Howard close to Carroll and I've seen one pheasant in 38 years. From the way it was flying I'm pretty sure it had gotten away from a seeded hunt or somebody training gun dogs. At some point I do want to go out west for a real pheasant hunt, but if I want to stay in MD or take him it pretty much has to be a release hunt. As for pricing, the first place I'm planning to contact costs 140 for a half day or 250 for a full day (guided with dogs supplied) plus the cost of birds. Bird prices: quail 8, chukar 15, pheasant 25 with packages (either 1 type or a mix of birds) ranging from 325-500. I'm figuring on a half day hunt with the basic mixed bird package which would run 465.
     

    JamesDong

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    It is a combination of over development, poor game managment in the 70s and 80s, and an increase in the number of predators. My granddad used to hunt in Carroll from the 50s through the 70s. He has pictures of him at what is now Liberty Reservoir (had to have been taken in the early 50s). That project destroyed a lot of habitat (the shoreline is around 80 miles long). I live in Howard close to Carroll and I've seen one pheasant in 38 years. From the way it was flying I'm pretty sure it had gotten away from a seeded hunt or somebody training gun dogs. At some point I do want to go out west for a real pheasant hunt, but if I want to stay in MD or take him it pretty much has to be a release hunt. As for pricing, the first place I'm planning to contact costs 140 for a half day or 250 for a full day (guided with dogs supplied) plus the cost of birds. Bird prices: quail 8, chukar 15, pheasant 25 with packages (either 1 type or a mix of birds) ranging from 325-500. I'm figuring on a half day hunt with the basic mixed bird package which would run 465.
    That's a shame, lot of money for what I did with standard consolidated hunting license in the 70's which was maybe 25 dollars. 3 or 4 of us went with dog and we would all get 2 or 3 cocks with a rabbit or two thrown in. :sad20: I heard most of it was because of way farmers did something with their harvest, I don't know the truth on that.
     

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