2022/2023 PHEASANT Hunting Videos

A5, Golden & NDPheasant - all great videos!

It is all about anticipation and reading your dog. I known when my dogs are tracking and getting birdy and the anticipation of a point or flush gets my heart racing. It is always great when the dog is running the prairie and hits that scent cone and freezes on a dime with a point. Always great when I do my job of connecting with the shot.

Golden - did you not have more than one shell in the gun on that 3rd rooster missed?!?

Again great videos guys like i'm right there with you!
 
Miforester said:
A5, Golden & NDPheasant - all great videos!

It is all about anticipation and reading your dog. I known when my dogs are tracking and getting birdy and the anticipation of a point or flush gets my heart racing. It is always great when the dog is running the prairie and hits that scent cone and freezes on a dime with a point. Always great when I do my job of connecting with the shot.

Golden - did you not have more than one shell in the gun on that 3rd rooster missed?!?

Again great videos guys like i'm right there with you!
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Thank you! The gun was loaded, just had a "click". Not sure why. Could've been a number of things, but it wasn't that cold and everything cycled like it's supposed to on the three shots I took moments earlier. I had a few of those this year. But, as I alluded to, it shouldn't have come to a second shot and Sage will make sure we find another one!
 
Miforester said:
A5, Golden & NDPheasant - all great videos!

It is all about anticipation and reading your dog. I known when my dogs are tracking and getting birdy and the anticipation of a point or flush gets my heart racing. It is always great when the dog is running the prairie and hits that scent cone and freezes on a dime with a point. Always great when I do my job of connecting with the shot.

Golden - did you not have more than one shell in the gun on that 3rd rooster missed?!?

Again great videos guys like i'm right there with you!
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You talk about reading the dog... my favorite is when Whisky is on point and he is locked in, but every once in a while he looks up at me like to say "Dad, can you hurry it up, there is a bird right here!" LoL.
 
LC Smith said:
You talk about reading the dog... my favorite is when Whisky is on point and he is locked in, but every once in a while he looks up at me like to say "Dad, can you hurry it up, there is a bird right here!" LoL.
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That is the epitome, at least in my humble opinion. To have your dog, your best friend, KNOW that you are his/her teammate and that they aren't simply out hunting for their own pleasure, but are bonded to you and to have the intellectual capacity to know that without you, the hunt and the harvest doesn't happen. I could riff on this forever, but in those moments when the dog is frantically pursuing a bird, that they would actually stop, locate you and then go back to business is something most people will never have the supreme joy of experiencing.
 
LC Smith said:
You talk about reading the dog... my favorite is when Whisky is on point and he is locked in, but every once in a while he looks up at me like to say "Dad, can you hurry it up, there is a bird right here!" LoL.
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Yes know that look all to well and love it!
 
Golden Hour said:
That is the epitome, at least in my humble opinion. To have your dog, your best friend, KNOW that you are his/her teammate and that they aren't simply out hunting for their own pleasure, but are bonded to you and to have the intellectual capacity to know that without you, the hunt and the harvest doesn't happen. I could riff on this forever, but in those moments when the dog is frantically pursuing a bird, that they would actually stop, locate you and then go back to business is something most people will never have the supreme joy of experiencing.
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The bond is special and hard to explain. Ellie hunts this way for me. I believe she knows exactly what I am thinking sometimes before I know what I am thinking. She stands on her hind legs in the tall cover like cattails to see where I am at. I once thought that Ellie was all about hunting but realized that it wasn't about that at all. It makes no difference what we are doing. She just wants to go with me. It could be a walk, fishing, fetching tennis balls or just going for a car ride. She just wants my attention and to hang with me. Willow is my other dog. She is a bird finding machine that hunts more for herself and the love of bird hunting. She is obsessed with birds. Great to hunt with but definitely a different type of bond.
 
Golden Hour said:
That is the epitome, at least in my humble opinion. To have your dog, your best friend, KNOW that you are his/her teammate and that they aren't simply out hunting for their own pleasure, but are bonded to you and to have the intellectual capacity to know that without you, the hunt and the harvest doesn't happen. I could riff on this forever, but in those moments when the dog is frantically pursuing a bird, that they would actually stop, locate you and then go back to business is something most people will never have the supreme joy of experiencing.
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You could riff forever but it would never get old. It brings to mind two scenes I filmed this year. The first Skye was running so fast on a rooster she left me in the dust. Really the fault was on me, we were in light grass, and she clearly hit a trail of rooster scent that was off the charts. I should have huffed and puffed and trailed her closer. My slight skepticism was met with a rooster that flushed off her nose out of my range. I shot two shells mainly because after seeing her work I felt I needed to; a teaching moment for me, I will do better. In fact the very next time she got hot on scent and ran, I kept up and was rewarded with a nice Iowa rooster. The second instance your quote reminds me of, was last week of season in MN, we pinned a rooster in a thick cattail ditch, and Skye jumped in front of me, slashing through the THICK and snow crusted cattails, she looks back at me, then hears a furious set of wingbeats and buries her head under a tunnel of frozen cattails. I cannot tell a lie, she flushed that bird and I missed him dead to rights🤢. One reason I love her so much, she puts up with that. Luckily🤞I managed to hit two other roosters that day and she had a great retrieve on both. I love you guys posting all these stories, the offseason is tough!!!😒
 
Golden Hour said:
Thank you! The gun was loaded, just had a "click". Not sure why. Could've been a number of things, but it wasn't that cold and everything cycled like it's supposed to on the three shots I took moments earlier. I had a few of those this year. But, as I alluded to, it shouldn't have come to a second shot and Sage will make sure we find another one!
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G. Hour:

I don't recall reading about how you trained Sage. She's an amazing dog,intense, but seems to look at you while in hot pursuit. If you could, tell us about the training that Sage went through...or perhaps Sage just a natural! Thanks!
 
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jonnyB said:
G. Hour:

I don't recall reading about how you trained Sage. She's an amazing dog,intense, but seems to look at you while in hot pursuit. If you could, tell us about the training that Sage went through...or perhaps Ssage just a natural! Thanks!
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I could make it long story or a shorter one. Let me know and I can share my journey with Sage and our style.
 
LC Smith said:
Lucas, you already know we want the details!
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Haha, I'll get it arranged and put up some where on here. I've got most of it documented (somewhere on the handful of external hardrives with all my pheasant videos/pics/stories), probably just have to add a few details.
 
NDPheasant said:
I am starting to download some of my hunting footage off my SD cards. I put together this from an October hunt.

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Nice video ND, thanks for sharing!
 
I just watched a pile of pheasant videos just to see what's out there. :)🥳😏😬😵. Boy they really run the gamut. Here's my quick takeaways.

Cons:
Wind noise(I know, tough to avoid in the uplands)
Hacking at the dog
shakey cameras (I know it's hunting uneven ground, but there's definitely a wide array on this issue)
guy wearing a chest mount and you can never even see what he's shooting at. WTH?
incessant blabbering in the field
poor editing(I mean it doesn't need to be professional, but just a little time in cleaning up clips helps)
People who don't seem very respectful of the game (really rare, but still saw a little of it)
muzzle control(or lack thereof)
A couple party hunts with members screaming at the top of their lungs every time they see a bird of either gender

Pros:
good editing
good audio
lack of irrelevant talking, screaming etc.
Good dog handling and communication
Good camera placement
Wild bird hunts
Public or private I don't care, but it's nice when it's noted in the video which type they're hunting
intro/outro dialogue explaining the hunt
bonus clips of other neat things seen while out hunting
dog footage

None of the videos I watched were from this thread, they were just whatever the algorithm popped up when I typed MN pheasant hunting
 
Bob Peters said:
I just watched a pile of pheasant videos just to see what's out there. :)🥳😏😬😵. Boy they really run the gamut. Here's my quick takeaways.

Cons:
Wind noise(I know, tough to avoid in the uplands)
Hacking at the dog
shakey cameras (I know it's hunting uneven ground, but there's definitely a wide array on this issue)
guy wearing a chest mount and you can never even see what he's shooting at. WTH?
incessant blabbering in the field
poor editing(I mean it doesn't need to be professional, but just a little time in cleaning up clips helps)
People who don't seem very respectful of the game (really rare, but still saw a little of it)
muzzle control(or lack thereof)
A couple party hunts with members screaming at the top of their lungs every time they see a bird of either gender

Pros:
good editing
good audio
lack of irrelevant talking, screaming etc.
Good dog handling and communication
Good camera placement
Wild bird hunts
Public or private I don't care, but it's nice when it's noted in the video which type they're hunting
intro/outro dialogue explaining the hunt
bonus clips of other neat things seen while out hunting
dog footage

None of the videos I watched were from this thread, they were just whatever the algorithm popped up when I typed MN pheasant hunting
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You forgot to mention the heavy breather/Darth Vadar guy. I know a guy..... :ROFLMAO:
 
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