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going to take my kids pheasant hunting

cowdoccowdoc Member Posts: 5,847 ✭✭✭
edited October 2004 in General Discussion
Cant do a freaking thing here ..rained again last night and the sun is kinda peaking out so will take my kids and see if we can wack a pheasant or two.[:D]
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  • cowdoccowdoc Member Posts: 5,847 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    well we got two rosters should have gotten a couple sharp tails they got up just as we was pulling up the corner of some wheat stubble to start walking
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  • TRAP55TRAP55 Member Posts: 8,292 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Good for you! Dogs seem to pick up the scent better after a rain.

    "Aim small...Miss small"
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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    this is where all that trap shooting pays off. good luck!
    Retired Naval Aviation
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    MO, CT, VA.
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  • cowdoccowdoc Member Posts: 5,847 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    trapp, was just me and the kids,I dont have a dog wished i did.
    getting ready to take one up to my grand parents grandpa asked if i would get him and grandma a pheasant to eat. would take both up but the one caught a pretty good blast.....need to wait just a tad bit longer.[:)]

    then gonna head to pierre to get some groceries and maybe look over a rifle or two, cant aford one now but guess it doesnt cost anything to look[:D]
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  • Salvage33Salvage33 Member Posts: 1,182 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Cowdoc...were the sharptails in the wheat stubble at the southeast corner by the stop sign? Glad to hear that you got a couple of roosters...guess that means that we didn't get them all! LOL

    Will send pics in an email...

    John


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  • cowdoccowdoc Member Posts: 5,847 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    John, no they was in a 1/4 of wheat stubble about 1/2 mile SW of that one we never made it there while you was here did see about 20 p chickens get up in the pasture by the dam south of the house, wasnt ready for them either, me and the kids was getting ready to jump the dam fill to see if we could get a duck when the chickens flew off the top of the hill east of the dam.
    Did you guys find any dry ice for them birds for the trip home?
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  • Salvage33Salvage33 Member Posts: 1,182 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Nope..but kept enough ice on them to keep them frozen solid. Left Pierre in the rain about 6:45 that Wednesday morning and pulled into Shreveport at 1:15 then next morning. 1176 miles. Let's just say my bony butt was sore!!! But we had a great time. Gonna cook up a couple tomorrow for Sunday dinner. Don't guess you got your winter wheat in yet.

    John


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  • JustCJustC Member Posts: 16,056 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    sounds positively sweet. Can't wait to take my boy out.

    why chase the game when the bullet can get em from here?....
    Got Balistics?
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  • plains scoutplains scout Member Posts: 4,563
    edited November -1
    cowdoc

    I have my Heidi dog. Let me know sometime and I will bring her down. I love to hunt those roosters, but I can leave my shotgun in the truck and work the dog. She is very sad that we don't have a good population this year and she is not getting to do her thing that she loves to do.



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  • cowdoccowdoc Member Posts: 5,847 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    John got most of the winter wheat in, would have liked to plant a couple more 1/4's but was getting late and too wet still have'nt harvest any corn or sunflowers gonna have to wait till ground freezes up looks like and hope we dont get buried in snow. we for sure needed the moisture but sure could use some warm sunny days, think i can say for sure the drought has broke and thats good [:)]
    Tell Brad hi for me.

    Plains, now why would you want to leave your shotgun in the pickup? [:D] our numbers are down also, i sure thought they looked like they was going to be pretty good from what i thought i seen earlier but there are a lot of unharvested crops still standing, so maybe there are more here than what we have seen sofar i do know we have a racoon problem and me and good friend of mine was talking about pheasant population he mentioned that when we had very high populations, the racoon population got thined real hard with distemper or something after he mentioned that i remember i had shot a lot of sick * them years.

    JustC its a lot of fun taking your kids hunting, mine really enjoy it
    even though they like to fight with each other once in a while [:D]
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  • plains scoutplains scout Member Posts: 4,563
    edited November -1
    Hey cowdoc

    I know how everyone likes to invite themselves along. A guy I know has a coule that is full of pheasants that I would love to hunt. He told me he reserves it for old people and kids. I said cool. I told him I would try and find a kid or two and bring them out but my shotgun will stay in the pickup.

    Know what you mean about *. Racoons, skunks, fox and coyotes take a lot of eggs and newly hatched - regardless of what the "biologists" say.


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  • TRAP55TRAP55 Member Posts: 8,292 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Know what you mean about *. Racoons, skunks, fox and coyotes take a lot of eggs and newly hatched - regardless of what the "biologists" say.

    Plains, That's the bottom line too! Every place I once hunted that was thick with pheasant and quail, are now thick with the above predators. Both game clubs I hunt now offer a bounty on all of them! A couple of #4 buck rounds always sit in my vest pocket now!

    "Aim small...Miss small"
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  • plains scoutplains scout Member Posts: 4,563
    edited November -1
    No one traps anymore and predator hunting for skunks is out. I have been thinking of setting traps this fall/winter where I hunt and see how many * and skunks I can take.

    the other thing that burns my craw is the federal bird of prey laws. Predators without fear soon become over populated and decimate game. Hawks and eagles and owls, all of which I think are great birds are so numerous that they take game birds in large numbers.



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