![]() If you ever have to hunt 2 legged species then that is more my area :flag: I knew you would take the joshing. I am sure you are very good at your craft no doubt you know what you are talking about. You said you would hold the bet pot right lol. No pizzing contest here brother just trying to make us some hunting money lol. We can leave the skills test for another day.lol.Ĭome the tail end of August, I will be scouting morning and evening and on September 1st, you can pretty much bet that I will be in a layout blind somewhere. If you are bird hunting, use a bird gun and for most folks-that means a scatter gun. 4022 Pheasant Run, Holt, MI is a single family home that contains 3,057 sq ft and was built in 2002. Some are wild, most are the results of private stocking. Get registrations Event Women Learn to Pheasant Hunt Weekend Workshop. Pheasant hunting has lots of different facets early season, late season, wild birds and released birds. 22 is off limits, on the wing or ground pounding.Ībout all I have to offer is the advice that years of experience have shown me and that is pretty simple. Small numbers of ringneck pheasant occur in the Champlain Valley. View events for Pheasants Forever in South Dakota and purchase tickets online. 22 for hunting any more is not even in this state.Īnd my small game hunting is pretty much limited to waterfowling and, as such that. I never claimed to be much of a wing shot with a. I love pheasant too this one was a nice reminder just how tasty they are it only had body showing as its head was obscured by leaves and twigs of a bush but i think it was spying on me as i was just getting ready to pack up then i spotted it and raised the gun, but its body and chest was in full view as it was streching up tall i only ever take head shots on everything but as i had no clear view of where to place the pellet i decided on a chest shot and the way it went down it did the business there and then it never ran just fell sidewards flapped a few times then nothing, if i had taken a neck shot im sure it would of past clean through and made it run and die slowly in my opinion neck shots are a lot more risky than a heart shot and on gutting it i could see the heart had been grazed badly but not quite pierced as i wanted, but i was,nt far off and the damage it did do dropped it instantly.if i had to do again it would probably be very difficult to pull off twice admitted but if you have time to study them you can work out if you will maybe be sucessfull or not, but as they don,t give you time to study them it was a slight risk, but think a neck shot would of resulted in it running in woods and me losing it as i had no dog to run it down,i have been pheasant shooting a long time ago and have had a brace given to me for for myself as me and my uncle where just the beaters, only to find the shotgun had only put 2 tiny shot into one of the birds that was not into any vital organs only just under the top layer of muscle, i think the minute it was hit it panicked and fell to the ground which in my view would of done more damage than the pellets due to the height it fell from and the thump it made on inpact. on picking it up i noticed blood from the beak indicating a heart and lung area shot and by the way it went down would,nt be surprised if the heart had been pierced right through, i was quite chuffed and looking forward to it as have not had pheasant for years ![]() ![]() a puff of feathers and sideways it fell, it flapped wings a few times then became still. its head looked tiny through scope even on full mag plus there were twigs in the way i decided to go for a chest shot and looked through scope for which seemed like 5 mins but was less than 30 secs in reality i worked out where i thought the heart was and pulled trigger. the landowner did say they have lots of pheasnts about and if one obliges i can shoot the odd couple the only one that was close enough was a hen pheasant and was approx 25 -30yards away, it had stopped and was staring over to where i were as they are very warey birds. went to shoot some bunnies today but after a long wait not one showed so just thinking about packing up as light was fading, when i saw lots of pheasants walking a hedge line close to where i was sat, they were obviously going to the woods i was next to which is where they roost. A Game Bird Permit is required to hunt ring-neck pheasant and bobwhite quail. Season dates Where to hunt Pheasant management. Not sure if pheasants are too much for air rifles as you see lists of airgun quarry and although they are not listed once plucked they are not that much bigger than a fat woodie, they even say hares are too big for an air rifle don,t see why yes they are taller and long legged but the head in my opinion is very simlar sized to a rabbit although i have never shot one lots of people do. The ring-necked pheasant was introduced as a game bird to Wisconsin as early as the late 1800s. ![]()
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