Mike Pritchard, owner and guide, has been hunting the area since 1970.
Mike's passion and love for the outdoors, as well as his expertise of the land enables him to provide a top quality hunting experience. 

Our quail have been stocked on several area ranches. 
They fly fast and far.  (See article below)
Available now  -  Call Mike Pritchard 325-348-8234

“Liberated quail are always abundant and seldom flush beyond shotgun range.”

Excerpt from Dallas Morning News article by Ray Sasser on Sunday, February 22, 2009
SANTA ANNA, Tx.—
....It was a marathon walk for my wife, Emilie, and a stark contrast to the previous afternoon when we hunted pen-raised birds with Mike Pritchard. Coleman County, three hours southwest of Dallas, is one of the state’s unsung game counties.

Pritchard is a big, friendly bear of a man with a shaggy beard and a black cowboy hat. He’s a lifelong resident of Santa Anna. He and his wife, Mary, raise and train Brittany bird dogs.

In one of his bird fields west of town, Pritchard released his two favorite dogs, Larry and Sam. The veterans worked like a well-oiled machine, crisscrossing the rolling fields until Sam locked up hard on the afternoon’s first point. In a wet year, Pritchard still finds plenty of wild birds in Coleman County but this hasn’t been a wet season.

His sideline business is raising quail in huge flight pens segregated from people. Pritchard raised about 20,000 birds this year, selling the vast majority. He’s released about 4,000 quail for his own hunting service.

Emilie walked up behind the rock solid dogs and made a good shot on her first flushing quail of the day. Within minutes, the dogs had another point and the action stayed constant for the next two hours. The birds mostly flushed in small numbers but we had as many as six or seven birds in the air at one time.

A lifelong wild bird hunter himself, Pritchard works hard to make his hunt as close as possible to the real deal. Many of the birds Emilie shot had been released weeks ago and had gathered into small coveys.

The birds flew well and many of them flushed when the hunter got close. Pritchard’s dogs will flush on command, however, and they put to wing quail that are reluctant to fly.

Pen-raised quail are not as fast as wild bobs, either on the wing or afoot, but breeders are getting better at producing quality game birds. Unlike their wild cousins, pen-raised birds are always abundant, whether it rains or not. While walking about two miles at a leisurely pace, Emilie put 15 in the bag.

Pritchard’s friends, Paul and Gay Martin, run a very comfortable hunting lodge on the outskirts of Santa Anna. It’s called M-Bar-H Lodge and is on the internet at www.mbarh.com  or call 325-348-8255 or 325-348-3391. The Martins handle the lodging and meals and Pritchard handles the guiding for any game that’s available in Coleman County.