1 rooster, 3 hen's

buckshot roberts · October 21, 2010, 12:59:24 PM

I took my old savage auto, some numbers #5' paper hulls and two friends( who have never done any bird hunting) out this morning to do some clean-up from a bird hunt wedesday hunt, my friends done ok for their first bird hunt, one got a hen the other a rooster, myself 3 hen's one rooster,

o' they were some missies...........I had a nice one fly by and I had forgottten to load a round in, my bad:grin:.........not a bad day........I had payed a guy to use his dog's, I do not have any that hunt.......... these ol' buy's are hooked now,

Were try'n to set up a good hunt when it get's just a little cooler............I'm going to take me a nap while these are marinating in zesty italin dressing

...............Ron

Paul Hoskins · October 21, 2010, 06:25:52 PM

Congrat's, Ron. Nice going. Where did you get them? There's none around here. Ringnecks won't stay where dirt sticks to their feet. ....Paul H

LvrLover · October 21, 2010, 10:26:26 PM

"I had a nice one fly by and I had forgottten to load a round in,

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I have done that as well as forgotten to take off the safety. Nothing beats a great day in the field with dogs that know what they are doing.

22hornet · October 23, 2010, 12:54:47 AM

Roosters and hens? I take it you are not hunting chickens? What are they?

davidlt89 · October 23, 2010, 03:00:19 AM

Quote"I had a nice one fly by and I had forgottten to load a round in,

I glassed a deer laying in the grass one morning and pulled up, took aim, and then realized I had not loaded the gun. by the time I got a shell in the gun the deer had managed to leave without me even seeing leave!

QuoteWhat are they?

Pheasants I believe! God bless.

Alboy · October 23, 2010, 03:14:48 AM

Gonna make for good chow after a great days hunt. If you boys like loading after you meet the quarry try capping a BP SxS while on a dead run ditch hunting those fancy chinese chickens.

Thanks for sharing Ron.

22hornet · October 23, 2010, 12:49:27 PM

Pheasants!

Thanks David.

buckshot roberts · October 23, 2010, 09:27:27 PM

Alboy I remember the post you did on that.........Ron

gitano · November 07, 2010, 11:53:08 AM

I got a good one to tell about turkey huntin' with an ol' Model 58 Topper.

There's not much better than a day spent hunting upland birds, and pheasants are difficult to be for upland birds. Congrats!

Paul

Brithunter · December 05, 2010, 08:26:33 AM

Quote from: Paul Hoskins;108549Congrat's, Ron. Nice going. Where did you get them? There's none around here. Ringnecks won't stay where dirt sticks to their feet. ....Paul H

Hmmm I wonder about this Paul as we have a lot of Pheasents around here and this is all arable farming lots of winter sown wheat and lots of bare plough yet we see Pheasents picking it over. I generally take a few off our small field each year.

Paul Hoskins · December 05, 2010, 10:43:23 AM

BH, all I know about them is pheasants don't stay where dirt sticks to their feet. We have lots of yellow sticky clay here. .....Paul H

gitano · December 05, 2010, 05:23:00 PM

There is a very interesting fact about the distribution of self-sustaining populations of pheasants in North America: They are not found south of the "Canadian Shield". (Look here http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry/CanadSh for information on the Canadian Shield.) There are certainly pheasants found south of the CS, but NOT self-sustaining populations.

I think the difference between the "arable land" in England, and the arable land of Kentucky is a matter of the amount of clay in the soil. The southern US has 'gobs' of it.

Paul

fire717 · January 07, 2011, 06:34:53 PM

Are those hen pheasants? You can shoot those??

gitano · January 07, 2011, 08:03:49 PM

Assuming you're not joking, "Yes". And more importantly, it's legal.

:)

Paul

davidlt89 · January 08, 2011, 04:54:12 AM

I don't know much about pheasants but I know they are not "self sustaining" here in Maine. It has been tried many times but the birds just starve during the winter. Too bad, I bet they are fun to hunt! I have thought about raising them one year and letting them go out back, may just do that sometime! God Bless.