Pheasant hunting? What tips?

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Re: Pheasant hunting? What tips?

#21 Post by Captainkirk »

Sounds like a ton of fun, Clay!
I've hunted birds with a shottie but never a bow. And quail are fast little buggers! If you hit even one you have my respect!
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Re: Pheasant hunting? What tips?

#22 Post by Longtrad »

I really cant take any credit for the one I hit, it was actually on my second shot so it's not like I was practiced up. Just somehow or another the bird and the arrow ended up at about the same place at the same time, pretty lucky really, but it sure made me excited.


I can see where a good dog that doesnt run too far in front of you would be very handy for spooking up birds, and for retreating them of course. There were only 3 of us so I'm sure there were a lot of birds we just walked past and didnt get spooked up.

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Re: Pheasant hunting? What tips?

#23 Post by Longtrad »

The bow was a lot of fun for me and I will do it again but just for fun really. It is hard, I didnt get very many birds that played nice and gave me good shots. Maybe a different hunting strategy would help and be better for bowhunting. Like I said we did a lot of running and gunning, I guess to force the quail to fly so they wouldnt just keep running away from us.

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Re: Pheasant hunting? What tips?

#24 Post by Shadowhntr »

Longtrad wrote:Just somehow or another the bird and the arrow ended up at about the same place at the same time, pretty lucky really


Bro, thats the name of the game. Its not luck. You shot the arrow for the bird to fly into. Its the exact same with shotgun, they gotta fly into your string of shot....with the exception being dead away or dead on.
The element of surprise can never be replaced by persistence.

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