Re: 4 hard days bird hunting
[Re: tomahawker]
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12/12/19 01:08 PM
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Neat stuff. Pheasant hunting is, along with squirrel hunting, one of the earliest memories I have with my biological father, who died when I was a pup. I can remember playing the part of the flusher/retriever dog while chasing roosters when I was likely only 3-4 years old. There were pheasants up the ying AND the yang back in those days. During the war (before my time) my brother would slowly drive the car around the section for our father.....who sat in the passenger seat with the .22 rifle poked out the window. They'd go around the section and my dad would shoot a good mess of birds for Sunday dinner. Meat was rationed and all those roosters cost was a little gas and a small number of .22 shells. I still own that rifle. They were still thick until my memories were formed in the late 50's. There aren't many birds nowadays. I once had an uncle drive to our place, from an upstate area without pheasants, so he could get some birds to eat. He loved wild rooster meat. My father had to work and couldn't hunt with him that day, so he lined up a friend to take my uncle hunting. They stomped around and both men filled their 2 bird limits. My uncle was given all 4 birds to take back north. Well it was about dusk when he left. As he was leaving my father told him he'd taken the .22 to work and went hunting on his way home afterwards, and would my uncle like his birds too. Uncle was thrilled to have them. The Old Man went to the barn and grabbed a gunny sack that was "filled with skinned pheasants". My father put them in the back seat and told my uncle that he wanted pheasant meat, and he now had some! During the heyday of Michigan pheasant hunting, it was as if there were so many birds they were like locusts to some farmers. That all ended by the 70's.
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Re: 4 hard days bird hunting
[Re: tomahawker]
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12/12/19 01:47 PM
12/12/19 01:47 PM
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jk
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Woodcock, extinct I think along with grouse. Gone for a while I hope they return. When I was a kid in NJ we had LOTS of pheasants, even in towns we saw them. Not stocked......jk
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Re: 4 hard days bird hunting
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12/12/19 02:12 PM
12/12/19 02:12 PM
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Woodcock, extinct I think along with grouse. Gone for a while I hope they return. When I was a kid in NJ we had LOTS of pheasants, even in towns we saw them. Not stocked......jk We still get a few coming down! Not like it was in the early 80’s. Or season starts December 18 and ends January 31. Or daily limit is 3. We had a lab flush one and he caught it in mid air, that was cool to see. I had a buddy of mine, had one fly up in his coat. Now, that was funny, but, he didn’t think so.
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Re: 4 hard days bird hunting
[Re: tomahawker]
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12/12/19 02:24 PM
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Just curious. Is that a Havelock setter?? She looks like a twin of the best hunting dog I’ve owned. Bell was her name. Lost her about 3 years ago.
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Re: 4 hard days bird hunting
[Re: tomahawker]
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12/12/19 02:29 PM
12/12/19 02:29 PM
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She’s 2.5 years old. I bought her started out of North Dakota a week before thanksgiving. She stays in the house and is calm as could be. But get in the fields and her switch is flipped. She minds well but wants to chase everything from sparrows to deer. We’re hunting together pretty well. Although today I lost her and screamed my head off, hitting the shock collar only to find her on point 20 yards away. Cockbird at that! I felt 6 inches tall Don’t fell to bad you are in good company. I had the same thing happen!! Spent about a week apologizing to the dog. Learned my lesson and have ran beeper collars ever since.
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Re: 4 hard days bird hunting
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12/12/19 02:29 PM
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She’s 2.5 years old. I bought her started out of North Dakota a week before thanksgiving. She stays in the house and is calm as could be. But get in the fields and her switch is flipped. She minds well but wants to chase everything from sparrows to deer. We’re hunting together pretty well. Although today I lost her and screamed my head off, hitting the shock collar only to find her on point 20 yards away. Cockbird at that! I felt 6 inches tall Get a beeper collar. They are a life saver in the tall grass.
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Re: 4 hard days bird hunting
[Re: tomahawker]
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12/12/19 02:58 PM
12/12/19 02:58 PM
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Nice bird and a gorgeous hunting dog!
I get spoiled, if we cant limit out in 4 hrs in Kansas we would get ticked and go to So Dakota. Those guys have calving yards full of them!
“What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.” Captain Gus McCrae- Texas Rangers
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Re: 4 hard days bird hunting
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12/12/19 04:06 PM
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Get a beeper collar. They are a life saver in the tall grass. And a bell. I ran both on my dogs. I hunted grouse and woodcock with the occasional stocked pheasant tossed it.
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