craziest thing you have seen a pheasant do

PHEZZYBOY FROID said:
A buddy and I were driving by a parking area for some Block Management.
We saw these two fellows walking down a hedgerow, they might have been 1/4 to 1/2 mile out.
Right beside their vehicle (6 feet away) in the parking lot were three roosters and a hen just walking around. Not scared on this strange truck or us just sitting there watching them

I really wish that I had one of the old polaroid camera's.... I would have loved to have taken a photo of the birds beside their truck and then place the picture on their windshield with the caption reading : WISH YOU WERE HERE"
This still makes me laugh.
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:D:D Now that is just plain funny
 
Saturday I was hunting in South Dakota. I was about 50 yards from a clump of taller pine trees and a hawk came flying out from behind the trees. He saw me and flared hard. The sudden direction change caused him to drop his prey, which turned out to be a rooster. The rooster dropped about 5 feet towards the ground before he started flying. I missed all four shots on about a 40 yard crossing shot.

That is one lucky rooster!
 
lol so i finally got one good enough to post about!

i went out this last weekend to a free military sponsored hunt at one of those charge per hunt places...anyway we had been walking around for a few hours and had got a few roosters and a few chuckars. when this hen pops up (they allowed ppl to shoot hens at this place, i didnt like it cuz it makes a bad habbit so i didnt shoot) and flys to the right of the line, i was on the left end so away from me. the other 4-5 guys take a shot. the bird was close, only about 20-30ft away and one of them hits it and i saw feathers come off. but instead of dropping it stopped mid flight and turned into the 20-30mph wind, which in turn stopped the bird and made the bird fly straight up as they were just shooting away...it just kept on going up and up she musta climbed 30ft all while they were shooting at it with their semiautos and once it got high enough it just turned with the wind and was gone to never be seen.

i felt bad, cuz it was all their first bird hunts but it made me think of this thread and i was just laughing and laughing
 
The story was more of the "hunter error" variety. It dates back about 20 years in Indiana on opening day. Traditionally we get to our field before sunrise and let the dogs run off all the piss and vinegar while we load the guns and have a few sips of coffee. We get into the field and within a few steps the first rooster gets up. My cousin who is a VERY good shot with his O/U let's both shots go and watches this rooster sail into the ditch very much alive. After a long tirade that would have made even the drunkest of sailors blush, he breaks open the gun to reload and sees 2 empty casings fly out.......SLUGS.......it was dark when we loaded up and he never knew it......20 years later and we still have to ask before we hit the field what shells he's shooting.....we get great milage from the story.........
 
Two stories come to mind:

1. I once saw a rooster trying to hide behind a rolling tumbleweed! It was rolling across the winter wheat and he was staying behind it!

2. My golden retriever once went almost completely into a hole of some kind of critter to pull out a winged rooster she had been chasing. I had to help her out of the hole by pulling on her back legs.

3. One more: I dropped a bird on some winter wheat last year only to watch it fly out of my labs mouth leaving her with only a mouth full of tail feathers!

Good thread
 
I had a cripple lead my older dog (now deceased) on a cat and mouse chase that included the pheasant entering a culvert and busting through the other side that was drifted in with snow. I saw a small hole where he exited with some tiny blotches of blood leading away and down a tree line. Dog made a 20 minute track through the deep snow and returned with bird in mouth. He was mighty proud of that one.

It was rather hilarious seeing my old timer pointing into a culvert... I said to myself as I approached, "what in tarnation is he doing" ?
 
Last year, my dog and I had just finished walking a public area and were walking the road back to my truck. The dog got birdy at something in the ditch and a large rooster flew out and across the road straight at a power pole less than 40 feet away. Just before hitting the pole, the bird turned on what seemed like afterburners and went vertical along the pole for about 30 feet before looping back up over my head and into the field we just left. My two shots weren't even close to catching up to him.
 
Oh @#$#

My friend and I were out bird hunting years ago and saw several birds fly over the road into some decent cover. Stopped at the farmer's house--he is shit-faced drunk and insists we can hunt the cover if he comes along and blocks the end. We agreed. Guy pulls in behind us in a brand new F150. He has the windows down-it's early in the season.

We head to the far end and enjoy some good shooting. As we approach him, a rooster takes flight and flies right at the pickup. He goes right into the passenger side window and out the drivers window. The drunk shit fires two shots at the bird.

When we get to the end we notice the mirror off of the passenger side on the ground and a nice pattern across the back and roof of the truck. He is just staring at it. We offered him two birds, walked back to our truck without saying a word. It was 5 minutes later when we both started laughing uncontrollably. Wonder what the hell he ever said to his insurance company on that one.:)
 
KBell said:
We head to the far end and enjoy some good shooting. As we approach him, a rooster takes flight and flies right at the pickup. He goes right into the passenger side window and out the drivers window. The drunk shit fires two shots at the bird.
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Man, KBell, reading through your story I'm thanking God the guy didn't kill anyone (including himself) ;)
 
We were walking next to a small ditch probably 2 feet deep and 3 feet across with very sparse cover and a few very sparce small berry patches on our way to a few acres of grass in a rice patty when our dogs surround a little patch of berries in the ditch. Not enough cover for a pheasant so I drop a 7.5 in ready for some quail when I hear a rooster crow from the berries. My dogs had both the exits blocked and the rooster repeatedly tried to flush through the berries to no avail, crowing up a storm the whole time. Finally the female left her post at the exit to go bark at this rooster. It was hilarious, my dog barking up a storm and the rooster crowing. Finally the rooster ran out the end the female left un attended and flushed but this scene carried on for at least 3 or 4 minutes first.
 
A couple of years back in SD I was on the wing and some guys and the dogs were driving a field. Suddenly a rooster got up and headed straight for me. He was only three or four feet off the ground and coming my way fast. I just stood stock still and let him come. I was in the wide open spaces and wearing plenty of orange, but he came right at me. He passed so close I stuck out my gun barrel and just missed striking him with it. He was about two feet from me when he realized I was standing there. Talk about going into a panic. He tried to fly four different ways at once, but ended up going past me. I was laughing so hard I just let him go.
 
This happened this year. Walked a crp field to a big draw which had only 2 inches of green grass in the bottom! Obviously from heavy rains washing all cover 30 yds wide! Just stood there for a few and watched one of the pups fly by me at mach 7 !! Then, explosion of a old Rooster at my feet right where the dog just blew over!!!! Zero cover and you would expect to see a mouse move!!!Surprised to say the least!!!! Thank god for 2 barrels !!!!!!:cheers:
 
Since we dont have Pheasants down here in SW MO I'll have to add a quail story. This is an old one that my Grandpa was involved in. Anyway, my grandpa was out hunting with my dad, uncle and a family friend when they walked up towards a farmhouse to talk the the owner whom they all knew. An older man who walked with a cane. Anyway, he was outside tending to his cows and as my dad and others walked up towards him to say hello, they flushed a covey. Well the older man with the cane raised it just like a shotgun and pretended to shoot. Much to his and everyone elses' amazement, the quail crumpled and fell to the ground. Seems the bird had flown into a low slung phone line and snapped its neck!! Needless to say they all got a great laugh out of that one.:cheers::cheers:
 
Years ago I went out by my self ,no dog with 12" fresh snow. I was walking trough some cattails and one big rooter got up I took a shot with my dads old single shot but it kept flying it flew towards another patch of cattails about a 1/8 mile away so I just headed in that direction hoping to jump him again. after walking a ways I saw one drop of blood in the fresh snow. I started loking for more and about every 20 yards there would be another drop so I followed the trail I was almost to the cattails when I found a perfect circle in the fresh snow I reached in and pulled out a stone dead rooster with one bb in the eye. He is mounted in a glass end table in my basement.
 
Rooster vs. young hunter!

This one happened a few years ago in SE SD!
We were hunting a ravine that had good cover and an unpicked corn field on one side. A rooster flushed about 100 yards out and flew off to the left and landed in a rather narrow fence row. I told the two young guys (one was my son) that they might as well head that direction and walk that fence row out. Didn't really believe that rooster would be hanging around...but worth a shot.
The young bucks thought they were just out for a walk. They were about 10 feet from the spot where the rooster had flown and the bird gets up and flies right at my son's buddy and hits him in the chest. They are both so flustered they fire off a couple shots each and the bird keeps flying. These young bucks were both pretty good shots...but were totally surprised! Rooster flies about 300 yards over the unpicked corn and drops like a rock! Sad part of story...no dog....and just could not come up with that rooster! Had a good laugh over that one!!:):):)
 
Happened about ten years ago in Iowa.Just finished hunting and was loading the birds in the truck when one, obviously not quite dead, just exploded out of the vest trying to fly. My son and I looked pretty foolish scurrying trying to grab this bird as he runs in to the culvert across the road. We looked at each other dumb-founded wondering how we are going to get this bird out. I had both dogs on point at one end of the culvert, then my younger one disappeared. As she crawled in, my older one ran to the other end. I'm panicking thinking my dog is going to get stuck and I'll have to call someone to dig this thing out. What seemed like an eternity, but probably only a minute, was the time it took for my dog to emerge from the culvert with the bird in mouth. Nothing better than a happy ending! God bless you, Angel!:cheers:
 
I once saw a rooster jump just high enough above the thigh high crp field we were hunting to take a peek at us. He was probably 60 yards ahead of us hunters and 30 yards ahead of the dogs. He ended up flushing at a dirt road about 5 minutes after he took a peek at us. Three of us took some long prayer shots at him to no avail..... Smart bird!
 
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three hens were on the ground- one you can just barely see- one rooster flew and landed- the other landed in the tree- seems showing off would be a good way to descride it
 
nrhpilot said:
I once saw a rooster jump just high enough above the thigh high crp field we were hunting to take a peek at us. He was probably 60 yards ahead of us hunters and 30 yards ahead of the dogs. He ended up flushing at a dirt road about 5 minutes after he took a peek at us. Three of us took some long prayer shots at him to no avail..... Smart bird!
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This kind of reminds me of my days of road hunting in SD. The pen birds would always stick their heads up out of the grass to check out what was coming down the road.

They always gave the wild birds (that were in the group) away by doing this. The wild birds are too smart to be popping their heads up exposing themselves.

Many times too, the pen birds would cackle away as a group came into roost. We wouldn't have known the wild birds had come in otherwise if it weren't for those noise makers. :)

(not saying you situation wasn't a wild bird);)
 
nrhpilot said:
I once saw a rooster jump just high enough above the thigh high crp field we were hunting to take a peek at us. He was probably 60 yards ahead of us hunters and 30 yards ahead of the dogs. He ended up flushing at a dirt road about 5 minutes after he took a peek at us. Three of us took some long prayer shots at him to no avail..... Smart bird!
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One year we pushed some cattle through a pasture. As they cut a swath the birds were jumping up and looking back at us....hilarious!

Last year I saw some tail feathers sticking out of a clump of grass. I walked over to pick it up, we had lost a cripple in that field that morning. Just kinda assumed it was the same bird, about dropped my gun when it flushed.
A few years ago lost a bird that high tailed it down some railroad tracks. The dogs picked it up almost 3/4 mile away in the next quarter, on the tracks.

And my favorite of all time. We've all seen the death climb a few times.
One year I took a relative out and and hit a bird that went into the death climb at about 80 yds, at the peak of the climb he takes a shot. The dead bird falls and the cousin is hoopin' and hollirin', thinks he killed this bird. He's hungry and satisfied. We pack it up and hit the MCD's in Pratt on the way home. Less than an hour in the field, and three hours on the road.:eek::mad:
 
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