Hunting Pheasants with a bow

sakorick · February 02, 2015, 07:37:23 AM

We were training dogs at the local bird farm about 6 years ago and John brought his bow. I told John to lead about 10 feet. Look carefully and you can see the arrow is about 5 feet behind the Pheasant. He only had this one shot. Close but no cigar. He was using his longbow that has a speed of around 200 '/sec. A shotgun is around 1200'/sec so he should have figured the shotgun lead and used a factor of X6. I would guess that bird is about 25 yards so my lead would have been around 2 body lengths or 2 feet. This should have been a 12 foot or so lead with the longbow. Nice try John. Picture taken with a Minolta 200SRT with a 200MM lens, then the print was taken with my Nikon digital.

j0e_bl0ggs (deceased) · February 02, 2015, 07:47:58 AM

Did you find the arrow?

gitano · February 02, 2015, 08:17:44 AM

I have always considered wing-shooting with a bow to be the ultimate archery hunting challenge. I've never been in a place to attempt it. Give John my enthusiastic encouragement!

Oh yeah, did you find the arrow?

Paul

sakorick · February 02, 2015, 02:45:32 PM

Oh yes, we found the arrow.....those big white fletchings were easy to find. It was exciting I can tell you that and I clicked the shutter at a perfect time. John could not believe he was that far behind the bird until the picture was developed. I found this lost picture while looking for something else!!!! I believe with some practice at the skeet range, John could do this......as you can see it was a dead bird with the proper lead. This is another THL first I believe as I have never seen anything like it elsewhere.

farmboy · February 02, 2015, 03:37:48 PM

Wow never even heard of anyone trying this anywhere close is impressive.

gitano · February 02, 2015, 05:07:24 PM

farmboy - Look up Fred Bear on YouTube. You will see a master at shooting pheasants with a bow. If it could be shot with a bow, Fred Bear did it.

Paul

Hunterbug · February 15, 2015, 07:40:41 PM

One of the ranges that we go to for tournaments actually has disc throwers for shooting arrows at. It's just like sheet shooting with your bow.

buckshot roberts · February 16, 2015, 10:41:01 AM

:grin:thanks for sharing, i like watching old Fred Bear video's......Ron

gitano · February 16, 2015, 03:41:12 PM

Quote from: buckshot roberts;137407:grin:thanks for sharing, i like watching old Fred Bear video's......Ron

Me too. I'm guessing here, but I'd guess he and P.O. Ackley were cut from the same bolt of cloth.

Paul

buckshot roberts · February 16, 2015, 06:29:06 PM

you maybe right Paul, i have been looking for some of the old Ed McGivern video's , can not find any...............Ron