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I think for most meats, a dry brine is best. A simple dry brine of 1/2 salt, with 1/2 brown sugar and some black pepper works very well. Rub the mixture on the meat and place in the refrigerator overnight. The meat absorbs the salt and sugar. The pepper deposits on the surface. The next...

I have had these now for two seasons. I have hearing loss and significant tinnitus. I am trying to preserve what hearing I have. I have tried several electronic ear muffs. While they seem to work fine in a duck blind. The wind noise on the prairie is awful. The only hearing protection that...

Could it be one of the birds you shot and did not retrieve this past season?

The following is from the article linked in post #23. It is well worth a full read. Anatomical Challenges Necropsies of pheasants taken in the test discovered that the back end of a pheasant presents two obstacles a charge of shot must overcome to produce a clean kill. Inside the body...

In my experience that 40 yards is a very long shot in most pheasant covers. A going away shot at a rooster at that distance or greater is often the mechanism for a lost bird At distances less to 35 yards and change, both steel and bismuth (properly sized and choked as stated by others above)...

I must admit that it is very difficult to argue with that kind of logic... because it is not logic.

That is the popular myth.

Some pheasants in South Dakota do ingest spent lead shot. That has been established. Sport Lead Free's statement on this matter is not a false statement. https://www.thepublicopinion.com/story/news/local/2012/06/09/gfp-study-reveals-game-birds-ingest-lead-pellets-shot-by-hunters/46389525/...

Thank you for the reply. I have my doubts that spent lead shot is significant factor in most game bird mortality. The fact you have not found any shot in the crops of the birds that you have cleaned is not surprising or even significant. When the studies were conducted on waterfowl...

What is the point of your argument here?

Knowing that lead is a neurotoxin and choosing not to use it to harvest the game that I eat and feed my family is not hypocrisy. I have been treated for pernicious anemia and have been diagnosed will elevated blood lead levels. I have both under control now, and want to keep it that way...

I have been using nontoxic shot both steel and bismuth now for several years. It makes no sense to me to inject a known neurotoxin into the food that I eat and feed to my family when a nontoxic alternative is readily available. That point was reinforced recently when grinding pheasant meat...

Many of us were probably told the myth that swinging a gun can elongate a shot string.

This video reinforces what some are saying on this thread. Note that you can see at about 1 minute that the shot at the tail end of the shot string (slower shot) is the shot at the outer edge of a pattern. Two observations: 1. Your pattern is much more important than the shot string. 2...

The Hevi Shot was clearly defective. Hevi Shot requested that I return the remaining ammo last year. The sent me fair financial compensation. I suspect the issue this year was the cold affecting the mechanical functioning of the Browning Auto-5 along with the cold affecting propellant...

I think some stone dead pheasants can be difficult to find in certain covers. Two observations on shooting pheasants. 1. I think many going away birds are shot through a wing. Our eyes are naturally drawn to the fastest moving object in our field of view. A bird with a broken wing but...

Last season, 16 gauge Hevi Shot bismuth caused several bloopers and squibs (wad stuck in the barrel) during a late season hunt in 5 degree weather. Those shells were kept inside a house the night before. Two weekends ago, another hunter using 16 gauge Kent bismuth failed to cycle a Browning...

I lost 4 birds this season over my dog. 48 birds were bagged over her this year. I would probably lose 50 percent without her. I know some hunters who, without a dog, admit that they lose more pheasants than they bring to bag.

I commonly hunt pheasants with two guns. My 12 gauge is a Winchester Model 59 (1960s vintage) with a factory modified choke. I shoot 1 1/16 oz hand loads of #4 or #3 and #2 steel. My other gun is a 16 gauge Stevens 5100. (Probably older than the Winchester.). It is choked modified and...

Check out this image of the old Winchester Duck and Pheasant loads. These sold for $5.90 in 1989. These shells were considered bargain basement ammunition at the time. Back then, I could barely afford to purchase a few boxes at the end of each season. $5.90 in 1989 calculates as over...