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Golden hour Iowa bird from today. Made a long shot and then missed an easy one. (poor gun mount)
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Dave, what's that white stuff? A Jim Dandy grits truck overturn? Nice photos of bird, gun and pooch. Gil
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Dave, what's that white stuff? A Jim Dandy grits truck overturn? Nice photos of bird, gun and pooch. Gil Thanks, Gil. The part of Iowa I mostly hunt has been spared of snow the year, only an inch or two at most. It doesn't have the big bird numbers, but it's real pheasant hunting and you work for those shots. About 20 minutes after I got this one I had one explode behind me after I stopped to defog my glasses. Rattled me and after the bang-bang-damn I noticed slight throb of pain on my bicep where I mounted the gun. Grrr!
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Nice tail on the one you got, Dave.
I'm hoping to get out 3 more times before it is over.
_________ BrentD, (Professor - just for Stan)
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Brent, he was a big bird and only got one other his size this year in South Dakota. Im going ice fishing today, but I plan on at least one more Iowa day trip before it closes Sunday.
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Brent, he was a big bird and only got one other his size this year in South Dakota. Im going ice fishing today, but I plan on at least one more Iowa day trip before it closes Sunday. I shot a pair of older birds (>1 yr old) a few days ago and just reaching down to pick them up, I could tell that one was much larger in body size than the other - maybe by 50%. Both were perfectly healthy and well plumed. I was sort of surprised by that, but I guess golden retrievers and humans come in all sizes too. Why not pheasants? I killed a bird last week that was smaller and a very weak flier, but when I cleaned him, I found out why. He had been shot by someone else with a load of #4s. He was healing up, but had obviously been battling infection in his breast and one leg. I ended up tossing him, but I believe he may have survived had I missed him.
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I had read awhile ago that in South Dakota if you hunted on a pay basis that some of the farmers have, they had to keep a total of birds killed and then they had to supplement the wild birds with pen raised birds. I'm guessing this is the same now and wonder if other states that have a fair amount of wild birds if this is the case also.
I have seen some movie footage of guys hunting in a group and having a good time talking while hunting in South Dakota. When I was there years ago you didn't as much sneeze when walking. The dogs had bells on them, but that didn't seem to bother the birds. I had never seen that many pheasants and at the time Pennsylvania had a fair amount here in the eastern part of the state.....that was then.
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Never heard about the pay for birds part. News to me. I don't pay for access, personally.
We talk while we hunt. But I do like hunting alone with my dog. He usually wears a bell although I have trouble hearing it. I don't like yelling to him so I use a Captain's whistle (sparingly) and the vibrator/tone buttons on his collar coupled with body language.
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I have seen some movie footage of guys hunting in a group and having a good time talking while hunting in South Dakota. When I was there years ago you didn't as much sneeze when walking. The dogs had bells on them, but that didn't seem to bother the birds. I had never seen that many pheasants and at the time Pennsylvania had a fair amount here in the eastern part of the state.....that was then.
David: If you remember wild birds in Eastern Pennsylvania, you have to be in your sixties or older. I've lived in and around southeastern PA all of my life, except for a few years when the Army sent me to Alabama, and there haven't been wild birds anywhere around here since the 1980s. I miss them and put and take pheasant hunting is not the same by any means. Rem
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Looking good Gil. Looking to get on the Woodcock this weekend. I know they have missed me
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