Guns, Bows, Shooting Sports, and Hunting First Pheasant

[kenny61]

it was amazing just to watch the dogs work

I hear you on that brother! It's amazing the intensity these dogs have when they get a scent. It's like a switch thats either in play or work mode

 

[Wooter]

Pheasants

Living in Michigan on our farm, I used to get my limit before I went to school in the morning (2 birds) - One exceptional day, 5 of us hunted a field that we had seeded to Sweet Clover and at time it was about knee high - within 20 minutes, we flushed 57 roosters and about 100 hens.

That aint no more!!



Now live in OH in an agricultural area, lots of cover - I have not seen one (1)

pheasant in four (4) years!!





The good old days - Good luck on your hunting journeys

 

[SRath]

Edit: I decided to move this to a separate thread. Kenny's first bird is what this one is about and it should stay that way. Hunting dogs are a passion with me and it got me started... This thread deserves to stand on it's own, but it has inspired me to start a new one! Congrats, Kenny and Leif!!

BTW, Kenny: Maybe you can take him to the next ACORN hunt if he still needs to kill something predatory. . ?

 

[kenny61]

With NY's pheasant population being non existent where I live and my last attempted journey to find wild grouse resulting in a crapped out alternator which ended my journey. I went to a pay to hunt place. Leif found every bird that was put out and I even managed to shoot each one that took flight. Being pen raised birds and wet at the end of the day the last 3 refused to take flight and my young pup could not handle watching me kick the birds repeatedly to only have the birds take 2 steps and sit back down

 

[kenny61]

I forgot to talk about the best part which happened after I got home. My daughter really caught me by suprise when she asked if she could help me clean the birds. we sat on the back porch for about a half hour cutting the breasts out, talking about hunting and talking about the different parts of the birds what you could eat in a survival situation etc. She was really interested and not squeamish at all. She even cut one up! Not bad for an 11 year old.

 

[2Rowdy]

All we ever eat is the breast.



They way we clean them is to spread their wings out and stand on them with head pionted to your backside, then grab the legs and pull up. All that's left on the ground is wings and breast. Then cut up the breast in strips and batter them in some spicy fish fry and have pheasant strips.

 

[KIKER]

A dear friend of mine passed away July 29th this year and I was asked by his widow if I could take his place on a pheasant hunt he had booked for him and his two sons in S. Dakota. I was very honored to be asked to do that, and very grateful that I was able to take the time off to go with the boys, aged 25 and 27. It was a wonderful 5 day hunt at Buffalo Butte ranch in Gregory, SD. I was afraid that it might be a sad, somber affair, but we enjoyed it, as I know Jack would have. We had little trouble bagging our daily limit of 3 birds the 5 days we hunted and still had plenty of time for me to tell some stories of Jack that they hadn't heard.
May you rest in peace, Jack.

 

[kenny61]

Sorry to hear about your friend, I'm glad you were able to have a good time. I find bird hunting enjoyable no matter what the situation which is something I can not say about deer hunting. It was raining when I went and I had taken my rain gear out of the truck when I cleaned it up the day before, regardless of being soaking wet I still enjoyed myself. To me there is something about watching a dog work that just fascinates me.

 

[kenny61]

All we ever eat is the breast.



They way we clean them is to spread their wings out and stand on them with head pionted to your backside, then grab the legs and pull up. All that's left on the ground is wings and breast. Then cut up the breast in strips and batter them in some spicy fish fry and have pheasant strips.

I saw that trick on youtube and tried it on my last bird. Im gonna try it on my first next time...

 

[kenny61]

First one of 2010...







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