Great pictures, thanks for sharing
Today's challenge.
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That was a good day...... sometimes my world flips completely upside down!
Mike in FL
50 Cal.
And I thought Florida was flat.
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What a wonderful hunt, day and countryside you have there!!! Always loved your hunting threads like your geese and now your pheasants. We used to have them but disappeared in the early eighties this was in Maryland USA. Now live in Florida USA and we do have loads of doves bobwhite quail and snipes! Again Great hunt and love your poochi dog!
Thats a beautiful place
Old Timer 48
58 Cal.
A good day. Nice birds. Good to see Jess with you. I enjoy your posts very much. Thank you for sharing.
Brokennock
Cannon
Good show Nathan.
What's with the "Vaseline" instead of your normally advocated animal or vegetable fat lube?
What's with the "Vaseline" instead of your normally advocated animal or vegetable fat lube?
Congrats Brits on another fine hunt and well told story..
I’m sure those pheasants present a challenge with that .45 smoothbore..
Looks like it’s time too put those pigeons in their place!
I’m sure those pheasants present a challenge with that .45 smoothbore..
Looks like it’s time too put those pigeons in their place!
I do believe that Barbour is well suited to the style of a country gentleman.
Since my Bellstaff is now well done I will look into a Barbour.
Well done Sir.
Since my Bellstaff is now well done I will look into a Barbour.
Well done Sir.
Lol, I was looking for something week's ago and noticed it buried deep in the junk draw so I grabbed it and threw it in my bag. When it's gone I'll use the tin for my lube, I may just add mine to it anyway even
Pheasants disappeared here in the mid 70's. The Game Commission rambles on about habitat loss and farming practices. I don't buy it. Those would erode the population over some period of time. But the birds here vanished virtually from one year to the next.
So what I'm wondering is how did you cook up that bird and what did you pair it with?
Inquiring foodies wish to know!!
Inquiring foodies wish to know!!
Your success with the little 45 smoothy is definitely convincing me to get the barrel reamed on my 50 cal flintlock rifleWas to be a pheasant or two with a muzzloader.
A challenge in its own right but it had been ages since I last used my .45 smoothbore.
Weirdly I used #5 shot today also. I normally don't go larger than #6 and favour #7.
I tipped about 50gn of 4f powder, a thin card, two more thin cards with a scoop of vasaline, rammed them down and tipped 3/4oz of shot filled by another card and set off for a cock pheasant. I left the hens alone today.
Actually the first shot was a squirrel but the second shot was a rising pheasant that came down stone dead but landed in a flash of water.
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Then it went downhill.
I missed the next three! And a partridge.
Finally I got one more chance and with a frantic retrieve we got my second bird.View attachment 269983
I had a good old time this morning and the pigeons, wow, a thousand birds easily.View attachment 269984
If I had to choose just one muzzloader I'd really struggle to not choose this little .45" smoothbore.
Skychief
69 Cal.
I've heavily considered having a smooth bore 45 caliber built for my hunting. This doesn't help Britsmoothy!!
I think it would be ideal for a lot of the game which I pursue.....
All the best, Skychief.
I think it would be ideal for a lot of the game which I pursue.....
All the best, Skychief.
They suffer from predation alot.
Buzzards take the young. Fox's take the sitting hens and so on.
I'm constantly hunting foxes to give them and other ground birds a chance.
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Atta boy Nathan
Indeed. But they don't explain the weird "overnight" disappearance of the birds here.
THAT is a big fox!
Sorry I do not follow you? I was just asking about how you cooked the pheasant and what you cooked with it.
The link takes you to another post of mine.
If you scroll down to #38 comment it's mine on how I cook the birds.
Sorry if I confused you.
Here you go...
