HolyMoses
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I will have to try that if I get lucky and find a bird. I got sick of the tendons so I just started breasting most of them.
Close flushing rooster
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I will have to try that if I get lucky and find a bird. I got sick of the tendons so I just started breasting most of them.
Toad
Active member
I call this man machine gun Eddy. He always seems to fire off a shot before anyone else can.
I would have a talk with machine gun eddy.
First of all, to me it is just a common courtesy that you should have had first shot. Second, repeatedly blowing up birds is not an acceptable habit...
We've all blown up a bird before by shooting it too close, but learned from our mistakes. Machine gun eddy can learn too.:thumbsup:
I have one buddy who has a bad habit of shooting birds out from under me and others. More than once our guns have gone off simultaneously on "my" bird. Just a simple reminder over your pre-hunt coffee is all it takes. "You can take a clean-up shot if somebody else misses, but the guy who flushes the bird has the first shot."
That close shot from the side, or a simultaneous double shot absolutely ruins birds.
BrownDogsCan2
Well-known member
I blew one up last year that I kicked out of the ditch and rushed to shoot before he got over the road. Normally I shoot them at 20-25 without much damage.
When I was starting out. Someone told me, when they get up at your feet like that, say to yourself; look..their..goes..a.. rooster. Then pull the trigger.
But usually I'll wet myself, and fumble with the safety.
When I was starting out. Someone told me, when they get up at your feet like that, say to yourself; look..their..goes..a.. rooster. Then pull the trigger.
But usually I'll wet myself, and fumble with the safety.
Dog Gun Time
Member
I am a poor to mediocre shot at best so don't know how useful this is but for what it's worth, I shoot an ounce and a quarter of copper plated #4, chokes are skeet and modified. It's not easy for me to wait for a bird to get out to the 25 yard range, especially when you are keyed up and when you go a long time between bird contacts. If I can make myself wait to mount the gun I have a chance, if I mount the gun as soon as the bird flushes and try to ride it out forget it.
mustistuff
Banned
thinking
the more you think the more you miss, pretty common, the answer to that is to do your thinking before you mount your gun, thinking with a mounted gun will get you to aiming, aiming will get you to missing, keep your gun down till you actually want to shoot.
cheers
the more you think the more you miss, pretty common, the answer to that is to do your thinking before you mount your gun, thinking with a mounted gun will get you to aiming, aiming will get you to missing, keep your gun down till you actually want to shoot.
cheers
goldenboy
Well-known member
I know this may sound conceited but please don't crucify me. When a bird is close I shot at the head! If I miss it is usually in front of the bird and a clean miss, the second shot then is usually out a bit farther and I try to just kill the bird. One day in the field the birds were holding tightly and my first two birds were head shot. My buddy said after #2, are you trying to shoot the head off those birds and I said yes because I like to eat them. Of course I missed the third one and had to eat my words but especially at the game farm, shoot the head. Most of my buddies at the game farm are eager as well and there isn't much time to wait for a bird to get out there a bit.
AtTheMurph
Well-known member
I call this man machine gun Eddy. He always seems to fire off a shot before anyone else can.
We call them Goose Stepping Game Hogs.
mustistuff
Banned
hog
i'd call him left behind from now on. mistakes are always made on hunts as to who's bird it is but ought to be a mistake and not a regular thing. a bird flushed on point should never be a mistake, it's greed, pure and simple
cheers
i'd call him left behind from now on. mistakes are always made on hunts as to who's bird it is but ought to be a mistake and not a regular thing. a bird flushed on point should never be a mistake, it's greed, pure and simple
cheers
Madison COunty
New member
His girlfriend that was with us could have shot it if he let her. I rather watch a cock fly away than to BLAST it!
Toad
Active member
Ive only seen one bird blasted to the point that nothing was salvageable. Pin raised bird with a rookie Pheasant hunter. He dang near stuck it up its tail feathers.
Op I let them fly out to 20 t0 25 yards. I think with 5's or 4's you let them go out a little farther. I use 6's in early season and 5's and 4's in the later parts of the season. As the birds become more educated.
This Question is a little on the subjective side as no one can tell if the bird got up with a strong wind and is headed out of the county, at mach 9.
Op I let them fly out to 20 t0 25 yards. I think with 5's or 4's you let them go out a little farther. I use 6's in early season and 5's and 4's in the later parts of the season. As the birds become more educated.
This Question is a little on the subjective side as no one can tell if the bird got up with a strong wind and is headed out of the county, at mach 9.
only a pointer
Banned
im with you moses whats your address I am sending all the meat to you
nothing better than eating some darn good pheasant tendons boiled off to make soup wow! thank god for price chopper!! I just breast them to moses I am not that hungryIt's funny how common methods get lost over time. Butchers used to have a small U shaped metal clip that was screwed into the wall about head high in their shops. People bought their chickens whole and either cut them up themselves or had the butcher do it. Styrofoam trays and shrink wrap? What language are you speaking? My fiancee's daughter has a biology degree and doesn't know how to cut up a chicken.
For those who didn't want the tendons in their chicken legs, the butchers would hook the joint knob on the foot end of the drumstick in that U shaped piece after cutting just the skin at the knob. He'd bend it from side to side one time to break the knob off and pull down on the chicken and pull the tendons out of the leg. In my experience you've got to cut the skin on pheasants because they have more and tougher tendons but it still works.
Good job quail hound for bringing that old method up.
One thing every bird hunter should have is a pressure cooker. You can make all of the slow cooked recipes in a fraction of the time and if you're camping, the pot makes a secure storage container that won't leak (very much anyway) if it falls on the floor on a bumpy trip into a hunting spot. Ready to reheat at the start of a burner. Duck and goose legs and thighs are transformed in a pressure cooker into something that makes you think twice about sharing with anyone it's so good.
As far as shooting too close, this is one of the side effects of hunting in groups. I hunt by myself with one dog and every bird is a trophy that is mine to shoot close, far away, blow up or miss completely. I'd suggest you all try hunting as a single sometime. There's no rush to shoot the bird and blowing it up yourself before "Blow 'em Up Bob" destroys the animal. Groups of friends are for splitting trip costs, card games, telling lies to after the hunt and beer drinking.
mnbirdchaser
Member
If it's a pointer, I blast away. I hate to wait and then miss if the dog dig its job. I will wait a little if the dog is a flusher.
mustistuff
Banned
bird dogs
you kidding me, if it's a flusher it is already so far away the pellets won't reach it in time to hurt it. while i use a small bore gun, shoot mostly all 7.5's with open chokes, it is rare for me to have a damaged breast on a pheasant and in fact i often wonder as i am cleaning them, what killed the bird as no shot is in the breast. probably ought to start using a bigger gun so i wouldn't have to eat so many birds, just blow em' up.
cheers
you kidding me, if it's a flusher it is already so far away the pellets won't reach it in time to hurt it. while i use a small bore gun, shoot mostly all 7.5's with open chokes, it is rare for me to have a damaged breast on a pheasant and in fact i often wonder as i am cleaning them, what killed the bird as no shot is in the breast. probably ought to start using a bigger gun so i wouldn't have to eat so many birds, just blow em' up.
cheers
519vx
Member
I kind of wondered the same thing...If you're hunting with both flushers and pointers, wouldn't you be inclined to "blast away" right away on a flusher putting a bird up which is probably further out, then a pointer where you walk up on the dog/bird and release it much closer?
small munsterlander owner
Banned
im with you moses whats your address I am sending all the meat to you
the folks here gave & showed some good tips on removing the tendons very EZ if they are not shot up & the meat on the legs is salvageable why would you only want to breast them??? there is states wear that is want & waste??? i agree 100% why shoot the bird if ur going to waste meat off it???
it sounds really really bad to say i dont eat the legs im not that hungry??? like 519 say the legs make great soup... im going to make wild rice & pheasant soup once i get back from SD with all the legs from the birds got to at least try to use all the bird if its not shot up in the legs??? kinda lazy to not even try???
each to there own i know im going to try them legs & make soup we will give them away to my grandma or my dads buddy they like the legs??? i do cook them when we have them & i agree tendons are no fun or good to eat...
HolyMoses
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im with you moses whats your address I am sending all the meat to you
when I have a wife in the house that i need to trick into thinking she is eating store bought chicken, i cannot risk the tendons showing up
i didn't get a chance to try this last weekend. the only birds I personally got were taken at the game farm where I just exchanged them for already cleaned birds since i was in a hurry, and the other birds we found were shot by others. the one bird i was going to try it on was a black pheasant and the owner decided to have it mounted instead and didn't think it would look good without its feet :thumbsup:
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Montefeltrocockkiller
Banned
I seem to shoot much sooner if there are not many birds around, and I will wait for the rooster to get further out if there are a lot of birds around. Human nature I suppose? I also seem to pass up lots of difficult shots if I'm hunting in an area that has lots of birds, and sometimes catch myself taking near impossible shots if bird numbers are low.
I probably need to concentrate on hunting the same way no matter what the bird numbers are. Never really put much thought into it until I read this post.
I probably need to concentrate on hunting the same way no matter what the bird numbers are. Never really put much thought into it until I read this post.