Hungarian Partridge in Ohio...

[hunterforlife]

Check this link out...I found it to be very interesting...Does anyone ever see these anymore,,, or are they completely gone...

Its about six pages of reading...but its worth it...



https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/1811/4333/1/V56N02_065.pdf

[antiqucycle]

I got lucky finding the 72 and 73 hunting regs. 72 was the last legal seaon. In 73 pheasants and chukar partridge were legal. not sure when they axed the chukars from the rules. they are probably long gone unless some field trial uses them.
I would bet most people on the forum also forgot or never knew there was a South Pheasant zone in the rules.

[hunterforlife]

antiqucycle--what was the difference btw the south pheasant zone and the north...

[antiqucycle]

The regular season on cocks, private land ended Dec 9 but on public areas and the South pheasant zone the season ended jan 27th. The south zone stretched along the ohio river from Stuebenville along Rt 22 to Zanesville past Chillicothe, to mount orab and Ripley on private land. must have been more pheasants down there.

Resident license was $4, non resident $20, deer and turkey tags, $5 each.(1972)
you can tell i have been at it a long time..

[DougG]

i have not seen any wild, but a few years ago with some people at work we bought 5 dozen and let them out in a large field and hunted them. we harvested probably four dozen the remaining stayed in the field. the guy that owned the field said he still saw some the next year so it looks like they can survive...would be nice to see them...they were a neat covey bird to shoot.

[Lance]

That's pretty cool, I would have never guessed it. My mother-in-law had a chucker walk through her yard a couple month back. It would be interesting to know if there are some running around wild by her now or if there is a neighbor in the area buying them this past fall to train on. :) The closest place to her that I know of that sells them is probably colose to 10 miles away.

[antiqucycle]

My memory tells me that at one time, some Reeves and Golden Pheasants were around but I dont think you were allowed to shoot them according to the rule book. I hate to thru all the old hunting reg books to find some mention of them.

With all the coyotes, hawks and eagles, peregrine falcons, its hard to believe any pheasants survive let alone Hungarian or Chuckers.

[hunterforlife]

From where you guys are located I know your not in prime pheasant country...In NW Ohio there are definately wild Pheasants, despite what people say...Yesterday I was doing some more reading about the Hungarian Partridge, one thing that confuses me is the fact that they actually need less cover than pheasants to live...So if my area has pheasants,,,why wouldn't the Hungarian partridge be able to adapt and live...I've never hunted them, but my father has at a preserve, which he said there basically bigger sized quail...