A Couple BP Pheasants

[GreyWhiskers]

Had a great time today, hunting with my kids. I managed to take a couple birds with my 10ga. Also managed to miss three but nobody wants to hear about that. :grin: GW

 

[Britsmoothy]

Now thats great.
I missed one. Had a flash in the pan on another and then got a nice 30yd rooster. But forgot the camera!
How did you hunt? Dogs? How were the shots?

Your gun seems in the photo to have a very straight stock or is it the photo fooling me!

Brits.

 

[wattlebuster]

Congrats to you. I never have hunted or eaten pheasant before. They are not in hillbilly country :idunno:

 

[ncmtmike]

GW,congrats on the birds,,they don't grow them here :shake:

 

[Flintlock58]

2 for 5 is batting .400! Us old guys should be very happy with that ! Nice picture and good shooting!

 

[roundball]

Good work GW, congratulations !
:thumbsup:

 

[silly goose]

Of course we want to hear about the misses, that is something we can all relate to. :rotf:

Looks like some good eating, not many around here, but I like to eat them when I find them. Nice looking gear. Congratulations.

 

[dbutch]

Good shooting GW! :thumbsup:
Your batting .375 Outstanding.
Pheasant dinner ahead.
Sharing an afternoon with family and friends is living right.
Gotta just love shooting blackpowder pheasants. :grin:

 

[agill]

:hatsoff:

 

[Dave Rosenthal]

GREAT job GW! I wish I had the money to go for pheasant this season, but paying the oil bill trumps hunting.

Nice lookin birds. I think I have the same scattergun too!

Dave

 

[BillinOregon]

Whiskers, that is just sweet! Congratulations on a brace of fine game birds taken the "honest" way. Care to share load details?
I hope to get out soon with BP and my 10-gauge, although it is a Model 1889 Remington ...

 

[GreyWhiskers]

This is an annual planted bird hunt in my area. Wild birds were thick here when I was a kid but now they are scarce.

The Pedersoli is stocked a bit straight. I see a lot of barrel when it's shouldered.

No dog. Birds would sit tight until you stepped on em so it was perfect for my open choked scattergun. 1.5oz of #6 and the birds I hit were dead before they hit the ground. GW

 

[Spikebuck]

Nice shooting and good photo. :thumbsup:

Pheasant habitat around here is rapidly disappearing as row crops are taking over all the former set-aside acres, sloughs, fencerows, even virgin prairie grasslands. Populations are way down.

 

[GreyWhiskers]

Pheasants were so thick here when growing up, that many places had contests for the longest tail feather. I understand that there are multiple reasons for the decline of pheasants. Farming practices, pesticides, etc.

Young birds eat mostly insects rather than seeds. So shorter irrigation schedules and spraying cut down on the bugs.

And I used to hunt weed filled ditches, fencelines, etc. Now most fields are cleaned up.

At least the refuges have the pheasant habitat figured out and there is some good wild bird populations to hunt on them.

 

[TLanoy]

Some great shooting and good eatin's! :thumbsup:

 

[ny griz]

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: Congrats.Griz

 

[Stumpkiller]

Great job!

I haven't bagged a pheasant in 25 years and haven't seen one when hunting in 20.

Mostly because I'm up in the hills and the cornfields are on the low flats . . . I guess.

 

[jethro224]

:thumbsup: Nice pic. Looks like good eatin'!

 

[James Stella]

Nice