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Busted some pheasants at Timber Rock, right outside of Poplar Bluff, it's was a blast, literally, I'd never done it before, a guy climbs up in a 40 ft tower and starts chunkin birds out, they immediately climb to 60 ft and 30 mph, and fly away while you waste shells! We managed to knock down enough for dinner!
Wow nice.That should make dinner.
Looks like it was a blast.
something about this does not seem
Thank you BeagleQuote:
Originally Posted by beagle man
Are those cage raised birds? I went to Kansas and walked 10 miles and got 2. They were wild birds and there was not many this year, last year there was a lot more birds.
ah the great white hunters........
Made our annual trip to South Dakota the end of Oct. 10 of us limited out every day in both of the daily hunts. Glad you had fun. I like wild birds myself. At the shooting perserve up here the cost is $18.50 per Pheasant killed. I can't affor that kind of huntin.
umm good eating I used to go out to bellville KS alot with a buddies family, them birds are getting thin out that way now though I hear. Try slipping some apple slices under the skin when you bake em good stuff.
yeah know what ya mean went avon sd years ago three nights motel three knights drinkin gas up and back bout 80.00 per bird its all funQuote:
Originally Posted by hunter7711
Wow. I would say that should be enough for a few dinners.
let me explain, I write the outdoor column for most of the newspapers in Southeast MO and Northwest TN, around 27 on any given week (which pays very little!), and various magazines that are hard up for material ;), a guy approached me at the shop and told me he was starting a pheasant and quail preserve and wondered what it would take to get in the column, my old man has shown me pictures of him with pheasants in the bootheel of MO back when we had them, we don't anymore, I've never killed one, I told him just have me out and let me bring someone and I'll write the story and take a bunch of pictures, this was pop's Christmas present, we took turns shooting and filming, altogether there were 12 of us and we killed 50 birds, they fed us a great meal, and cleaned everyones birds, except ours because pop's said he'd rather do it himself! A trip to the Dakota's or paying for something like this is way out of my budget, so this is what we did. It turned out to be a lot less expensive on the other guys than I thought, $16 a bird, divided by 11 was around 90 bucks, and the meal was easily worth 15! It was also set in a valley between two ridges that was very picturesque, and the dogs they had working were great to watch. I hope I can generate them enough business that he'll have us back and let us bust some quail! Timber Rock pheasant and quail hunting, just west of Poplar Bluff MO, Brian Miller at 573-718-5833, tell him Josh sent ya!!!
Not about the money for me, it's about the sport......to each his own?
I would still rather hobble arround on my crutches and fall down a time or two and get lost never will I stand and let a person toss a bird in the air and let me shoot at it.
I'm not trying to be a smart guy or anything here, but isn't that pretty much the same as skeet shooting? Pheasant is awesome though!!
Ain't nothing like hunting wild pheasants , but they are hard to come by in Mo. I used to hunt them in Mi. back in the late 70's when they were plentiful .
Whatever floats your boat, we eat plenty of chicken, cow, and pig that are raised to die, over 50% of the pheasants made it to the woods, at least they have a chance, coyotes an hawks will eat good, I eat more real wildlife in a month than most folks do in a year, probably not you beagle, but most folks, and i have no qualms bustin these home grown birds and will certainly have no issues with fryin em up!
no problem here, just my opinion. after all I use every means abailable to track,catch and eat crappie.
Like you said each to their own and a day with your dad is priceless, so whatever you do to enjoy that time is great.
Have always wanted to try one of the european shoots, I have heard it will test you and your shotgun. Raised in SD. I know all about shooting wild birds and some of the places I have hunted since moving away will test those wild birds, granted some wont but looks like it was a blast to me and not very far away. Will have to look into it.
All I know is some pheasant nuggets sure do sound good...mmmm I have been on a few hunts where they will set out birds the night before and we used our dogs to find them, I just had never heard of this method...hope you didn't take my previous post wrong!!!
You can take a pen raised bird, but his head under his wing and sit him by a weed clump and he won't move. He don't know what to do.
No worries guys!! They throw em from 45 ft and they fly like hell, tough to hit way up there, however once they hit the ground they don't move, the retrievers retrieved at least 2 birds that hadn't been hit at all.