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Conditions & Cover
Weather
Cool, damp mornings after a front are the holding-cover days
Wind
Notorious wild flushers in wind, 60 yards and gone
Temp
Snow bunches coveys along shelterbelts and stubble
Cover
Wheat stubble, grass margins, gravel roadsides
The Daily Clock
How to hunt it, hour by hour
1
Morning Stubble Feed
First 3 hours
Coveys feed waste grain in stubble, edging along grass margins.
Run It
Work stubble-grass edges into the wind
Expect the flush at 30+ yards
2
Midday Grass Loaf
Midday
Loafs in grass draws and rock piles, the tightest they'll sit all day.
Run It
Follow the covey's landing mark
Re-flushes hold better each time
3
Evening Re-Feed
Last 2 hours
Back to the stubble, calling with a rusty-gate creak at dusk.
Run It
Listen at sunset to roost them
First covey of the morning starts here
Cross-Reference
Where this bird lives
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