Needed meat...

[Britsmoothy]

...and the 45 was just the ticket.
Three shots and I had two roosters and one squirrel.
50gn of fine granulated black powder. 3/4oz of #7 shot.

 

[JeffG]

Good shooting!

 

[Des52]

Really nice, give Jess a pat on the head from me.

 

[Hatchet-Jack]

Good hunting and a beautiful bird!

 

[Dave Marsh]

Would love to have pheasants to shoot around here. I've seen three in 30 years here in NY I do believe. When I lived in Minnesota in the 70's we used to get our limit every weekend. Good shooting and enjoy the meat.

 

[user 31232]

Haha when stationed in Korea75-76 while on guard duty pheasants would flush and I'd follow their flight with my m-16 . brrrrrrrap

 

[ORBushman]

Fantastic day in the woods I'd say! Congrats on the harvests and great looking shooter!

 

[Spikebuck]

By the fairly contained wet slobber mark on the squirrel, it doesn't look like Jess worried it over too much!

Good shooting!

 

[Old Timer 48]

Good job! Nice to see Jess also!

 

[Daytime Smoker]

Nice pheasants!

 

[Britsmoothy]

By the fairly contained wet slobber mark on the squirrel, it doesn't look like Jess worried it over too much!

Good shooting!

It came charging through the oaks making for a hole in a tree. I waited for it to stop before it disappeared. It did stop.
As I fired it started to bolt again but it fell out of the tree. I was unsure how well I had shot it so fearing a charge I released my savage hound () to neutralise the threat!

 

[Dave Marsh]

Ahhh so you have attack squirrels in England too...LOL

 

[deermanok]

Good hunting!

 

[BigAl52]

Jess wants some tail feathers for his hunting hat. I sure wish I had some fresh pheasant to enjoy. Nice shooting

 

[SOLANCO]

This used to be pheasant heaven. In the mid '70s the population started to decline and then crashed. Plenty of reasons to point at but no one really knows. I feel the decline was too abrupt and too pronounced to blame on habitat, farming practices, chemicals and the other usual suspects. Raptors are back in force, but that was not the case in 1975. I know a retired state trooper who carried a personal shotgun in his cruiser to hunt pheasant on his lunch break. He said the mid 70's it was like the Lord just turned off the pheasant faucet.
They put out farmed birds now here and there. A farmed pheasant is a dumb bird with no survival instinct. The gun club gave me three to put out here. They sat on a tree limb and waited for the owl that ripped out their breast meat.

 

[sb 54 cal.]

Well Britt you made my day.

 

[Mtman725]

Fun and some good eats~

 

[Gold Grizzly]

This used to be pheasant heaven. In the mid '70s the population started to decline and then crashed. Plenty of reasons to point at but no one really knows. I feel the decline was too abrupt and too pronounced to blame on habitat, farming practices, chemicals and the other usual suspects. Raptors are back in force, but that was not the case in 1975. I know a retired state trooper who carried a personal shotgun in his cruiser to hunt pheasant on his lunch break. He said the mid 70's it was like the Lord just turned off the pheasant faucet.
They put out farmed birds now here and there. A farmed pheasant is a dumb bird with no survival instinct. The gun club gave me three to put out here. They sat on a tree limb and waited for the owl that ripped out their breast meat.

Pheasants were introduced in Oregone years ago and they released them in a small wetlands area. I would almost hit them driving to work, they were pretty plentiful. Not sure if they are still there.

 

[Loja man]

It’s a good thing you had your attack dog to protect you!!

 

[Okie Hog]

Great shooting Britsmoothy.