My best bud and great as a chukar dog. He would always wait like he did with pheasants then he would bust them up. Good all around dog.

 

My new lab does awesome at 8 months and our labs in the past have done okay. It's mostly about training IMO, get them to work close and trust their nose. We don't have many pheasants around here so we hit quail and chukar mostly.

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I started over 25 years ago with a lab. Had a couple of them I took into the hillls. Def can be done and can be successful. Go for it. Once you are hooked then you can get a pointing dog and then your success will really explode.


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I started over 25 years ago with a lab. Had a couple of them I took into the hillls. Def can be done and can be successful. Go for it. Once you are hooked then you can get a pointing dog and then your success will really explode.


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My son has a Drahthaar Puppy coming from Utah in about 6 weeks. So we are jumping in to upland hunting now pretty heavy. Just don't really know where to start on chucker but it seams like a fun bird to chase.

 

Have hunted for years with 1 of my boys labs with my Brittney's .His first lab was a pointing lab , neat to see a lab backing up a brittney . His current lab is a non pointer but stays real close , has a great nose , well not back my brittney but is no problem on the flush . The one thing with chukars is finding them after you knock them down , labs are very good for that retrieve and finding cripples .The chocolate could go thro a set of booties in a 1/2 day .

 

"fun bird to chase." We call 'em "devil birds" for a reason.


Keep an eye on your dog's feet. Pack a lot of water.

 

You will spend the first few years hunting them for fun and the rest of your life hunting them for revenge

 

I respectfully disagree. You hunt them for fun on the first DAY, then the rest of your life for revenge! I have over 50 years of revenge now, still looking to get even........

 

If he hunts close to you, you will be fine. If he runs crazy and flushes birds out of gun range, then good luck. Try to keep him close, when he gets birdie.

 

It depends on the lab. A big boned heavy lab will have trouble holding up all day. I am sure there are exceptions. Probably more important is the country your hunting, and if your lucky enough to have a boat to pick you up at the bottom. If you could tell your dog to slow down and pace it self, that would help. A GSP or Vizsla, seem to be built better, for the chucker hunting I did in my youth.

 

I had a big burly 90lb lab that ran ahead of our downhill mountain bikes for 15 miles from timberline lodge to the dairy queen. He also skijored me to the top of ski bowl in deep snow. He was a cliff jumping, Deschutes swimming, Devils canyon scaling beast. May he rest in peace. I have two great labs now on the smaller side.(wife insisted on a smaller lab so I got two) They are better hunters but they cant hold up anything like my last big boned lab and neither do I. :twocents:

 

Finding birds that will hold long enough for both you and the dog to get in range will be a big challenge. This is where pointers have the advantage. I don't know how well your dog can locate birds at extended ranges (like a couple hundred yards) and then work in on them but that's how Chukars are hunted. A dog should have the ability to use the wind for locating birds. Tracking birds on the ground is marginally effective.

 

I agree. In my experience most of the birds my lab would find in range would have flushed anyway. And my lab flushed a lot of birds far out of range that might have held a bit longer if the dog wasn’t there. But a lab that will heel reliably can be a great asset. If he will stay at heel and then work close and then come back to heel you can use them to great effect. Sail a chucker off into a gulch a hundred yards below you and that lab is worth it’s weight in gold.

 

Go for it. Regardless of the breed it will take your dog several bird contacts to figure out what he/she is after. The same will go for you.

I’ve hunted chukars with flushers and pointers. You just adjust accordingly to your dog’s hunting style.

Many a chukar has met his demise in the jaws of a labrador.

 

Well pretty simple answer for me. Pheasant's and ducks are both birds. So are chukars! All that will change some is the look of the country! Take him chukar hunting.

 

If both you and your lab are in great shape you will get birds. If not, it will be a challenge but you will enjoy the exercise and maybe harvest a bird or two.

 

Round is a shape right ??? LOL