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Farted like a mule when he mounted his gun. Lmao.
JR

I don't know if those were planted or wild birds, but I do know they can hide under a blade of grass or so it seems. A number of years ago, my dad and I and a couple of his brothers hunted pheasants on opening day near York, PA. We were on my cousin's dairy farm and the group of 4-5 of us were walking through a harvested corn field that had been cut for silage, which leaves very little residue on the ground. Someone had a setter and it pointed, a bird rose, and was knocked down. Then the dog came back and pointed again, in almost the same spot. Dad told me to walk in and kick the bird out. I told him the dog was pointing where the bird had been. He said, No there's a bird there so I started kicking at what little cover there was. No bird. Then he said, You had him on your foot. So I kicked again and a bird rose. That was two invisible birds in one spot. I think they can hide on a golf green.

I remember several years ago I was hunting at an area where they released pheasants. I had hunted for several hours with no luck so I decided to go home. I walked back to the car, took my jacket off, put my gun in it's pouch and stuck it in the trunk of the car. When I walked around the car to get inside, as soon as I opened the door I looked up and here comes a pheasant walking right past the front of my car. I ran back around the car, got my gun out and started looking for that bird. Never saw it again. Last fall, I was hunting in the same area. Got tired and headed home. On the road about a 1/4 mile from where I had been hunting I looked over on the side of the road and here was this bird with a bright orange neck standing on the side of the road in the ditch. I turned into the lot across the road, grabbed my gun from the trunk, ran back and looked all over where I saw that bird standing. No luck AGAIN!! 🙄

Many years ago I was standing opposite my father as he handed me my gun (broken and empty) across a fence. A cock pheasant got up and flew off from between our four feet.

That could have been a running bird, that you unknowingly pushed in front of you.

When a dog points a pheasant in thin cover, and someone has a good idea where the bird is, you can often see a beady little eye looking just a tiny bit out of place. On a still dewy morning, sometimes a flash of blue rooster feathers, looks bright at seventy yards, in scattered knee high bush. It not the worst thing in the world, just being out, hopefully though, it's not five planted birds.