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Hoof,
On stocked lands like that, do you shoot hens too? I'm wondering if there is any effort or hope of natural reproduction and if not, why not?

You have a couple good looking kids and good looking dog too. Keep at 'em.


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September 2017 Hatcher Pass Alaska



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Dennis, I would like to see these photos...I lived in Palmer for a few years. Can I help you post them?

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I thought the pheasant stamp would limit the number of other hunters I saw and result in more bird contact for me, I was wrong on both accounts. I am glad the program exists or there would be no birds to hunt in my area. I haven't seen a grouse in years.
Some areas allow the shooting of hens, and some do not. Everything that I have heard and read has suggested that stocked birds rarely reproduce in the wild. PA is starting to import wild birds from out west in some areas. There is no hunting allowed in these "pheasant recovery areas" and from what I have seen they do flushing surveys in the spring and have been seeing increasing bird numbers.

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Dennis, nice looking F. Britts and shotgun. Merkel? We don't see a lot of ptarmigan around these parts. wink Gil

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Originally Posted By: Hoof
I thought the pheasant stamp would limit the number of other hunters I saw and result in more bird contact for me, I was wrong on both accounts.



You sure got that right. I hate to use this terminology, but I do seem to see less "slob hunter trash" in the fields. You know...the guys who get on a line 10 men deep and when a single bird gets up they all empty their magazine (and the bird still manages to fly off usually).

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The dogs said 'thank you' and the gun is a 1941 16 gauge Merkel.

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Originally Posted By: Hoof
I thought the pheasant stamp would limit the number of other hunters I saw and result in more bird contact for me, I was wrong on both accounts.



You sure got that right. I hate to use this terminology, but I do seem to see less "slob hunter trash" in the fields. You know...the guys who get on a line 10 men deep and when a single bird gets up they all empty their magazine (and the bird still manages to fly off usually).


While I partly agree with the need for the pheasant tag due to very low populations, I am not in full agreement with the part about the line of so-called "slob hunter trash" on a line of 10 men deep...

I believe that a couple hunters with good dogs can do a much more efficient job of cleaning out bird populations to near extinction than a line of hunters who don't shoot well ever could. I personally know guys who simply could not restrain themselves from returning to the same farms over and over, shooting every bird they could, including the hens (or breeders) until the areas were shot out. They then repeated the process on other farms, and then actually bragged about feeding freezer burned birds to the dogs because they shot more than they wished to eat. The same guys were whining about the lack of native birds, and being reduced to hunting stocked birds, on over-hunted State Game Lands just a few years later.

Recovery of pheasant populations in Pennsylvania will likely never happen until the Game Commission can admit making the mistake of allowing the harvesting of hens, and until predator populations are brought in check.


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Ahhh....Hatcher's Pass. One of my fav places on earth! Thanks for posting that Dennis.

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