pheanants hunting

[notime2smile]

who here loves pheasant hunting, my cousin decided to take a trip from wisconsion to hunt the pheasant capital of the world, south dakota, so i had to show him how it is done. we slamed em, and let me tell you the coolest thing i could see was his dog working the heavy cattails and flushing a big rooster, and BAM dropping a trophy rooster, in heavy brush, thick, 8 foot tall, he slamed into it, got the bird, perfect retrieve man i've never seen anything like it. don't think i'm a big old red neck but watching a bit rooster get up and bam, folding with the shot of my twelve gage shot gun and watching a finily tuned athlete make a perfect retrieve, life just doesn't get any better than that, and it sure tastes good in the crock pot with a can of cream of mushroom soop.

[pb4jc]

MAN I MISS IT!

I love pheasant hunting! but im away at college and i missed it this year. I agree though there is NOTHING like watching a dog make an awesome retrieve. Well maybe bunkerin someone is a little better but not much.


pb4jc

[OfficerGoat]

Now if we could teach the dog to bunker someone life would be grand....or not... at least if you were the bunkeree

[RiddalinJunkie08]

Me and my dad go pheasnt hunting once a week. He wants to do one of those hunts out in SD when he retires. For now, we hunt on a pheasnt farm where we pay them to plant birds and then we go out and hunt them.
-Mark-

[mcveighr]

Pheasant with a 12 gauge? Was that really necassary? 4/10 woulda done it.

[cphilip]

They beautiful birds. Non native to America you know? But they adapted very well and certainly thrive in the grain growing areas of the country. I suspect your reffering to the Ring Necked Pheasant. Almost all of the Pheasant Species are Asian derived except the Guinea Fowl which is an African member of the Pheasant Family. Good eating too! All of them!

(can you tell one of my areas of study was Poultry Science?)

[mcveighr]

I should major in that.

[FactsOfLife]

Used to hunt ringnecks out in the back 40 growing up. Now there isn't a pheasant within a hundred miles of here.

I belong to a local bird club, but it isn't the same by a long shot.

Still planning a trip to SD sometime soon with my dad.

Picked up a nice Winchester 101 in 20ga for it.

[Bad_Dog]

Cool!

I live about 0.34 miles from a pheasant farm here in wisconsin. The birds are everywhere, at the end of the season all of the extra birds are released... kinda freaks you out when you wake up and theres like 8 of them under your bird feeder....

Another bird that we have alot of is the chuckers (sp?), a smaller faster game bird that the farm raises... they look like large morning doves but when they sit by the side of the road they just look like bowling balls...

[adam68c]

If you can use a 410 to drop pheasants you must be pretty good. I still use one but thats only cause I started when I was like 12 and needed a small gun. Never got around to getting a bigger gun but I cant count how many times my dog has flushed a bird and seeing only feathers drop and the bird flying away.I definatly need to upgrade. Their extremly fast birds for their size. I wish I had a dog that actually knew what it was doing though. Oh and Ive never heard them called roosters. I thought chickens were roosters. We call um Cocks. Maybe its a regional thing.

[beam]

A lot of guys around here can limit out in the first half hour of opening day.

So that's TWO good things about living in Iowa.



...but I can't remember the first....so maybe there is only one. hmmm