craziest thing you have seen a pheasant do

[birddog456]

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.

:10sign:incident gets my vote for best story! Laughed my a-- off!

 

[koja48]

I guess that I should state the obvious relative to the "craziest thing I have seen a pheasant do" . . . fold stone, cold dead when I'm taking the shot, lol. They can be startling birds & I must admit that I've missed my fair share.

 

[birddog456]

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!

It was Tuesday morning of opening week in Iowa, 2001. Rain had been coming down all night. I deciced to try some new public ground over towards Marengo. Still raining, I hit the road and travel on to a new promise land.
As I get close to this new sight, I make a slight left turn off the highway on to a road with a crest, with a sign just over the crest that reads "Class B road Minimum Maintenance Travel at your own risk". Rain and dirt make mud.
OH SH*%!!! Needless to say momentun only carried me another 1/8th of a mile before I came to a complete stop. Got out of my truck and I'm looking at a green and white Public Hunting sign, guess it's not a complete loss.
As I venture in, the parking area fence line is littered with at least 25 rooster carcases. Wow! What a new Promise Land! First few points were hens, always good to see. Finally locked down on a rooster, great to have one in the bag! The only bird I saw and heard after that was a rooster that jumped up just above the grass to see my location, cackling like there was no tomorrow! It was like the nuclear warning siren had been activated and everything within a mile radius cleared out to the next county.
Three towing companies were called, but wouldn't come to pull me out...didn't want to get their rigs dirty. No farmers around, busy in the fields. Thankful I had a pair of shorthairs, had to sleep in the back of my truck...
it was a "Two Dog Night". Even though it wasn't the best situation, or that great of an experience, it proved to be a great scouting trip.
Guess where we were opening day Iowa 2002? Walked out with our limit in 30 minutes!:thumbsup:

 

[Toad]

I posted a good pheasant story on the Kansas board last year.

One time we were quail hunting and a wounded quail ran into a huge packrat nest to hide. My dog and another guys dog were digging and tearing into the nest from two sides and we could hear the quail flapping around and see it pop out and back in every so often. The dogs were belly-deep in the nest from two sides when my dog finally managed to grab the quail and back her way out. The other guy's dog was still digging away, thinking the bird was still in there so I did the dumbest thing I have ever done while hunting...

I decided I would show the dog (A male EP) that the quail wasn't in there anymore, and also thought for some unknown reason that it would be a good idea to let him smell the bird so he would stop looking for it. So I nudged the dog to get his attention and when he came out I extended the quail (in my hand) so he could see and smell it. Next thing I know, my entire hand is inside the dog's clamped jaws and he is biting the S out of my hand! I think he intended to chew my hand off at the wrist so he could get "his" quail.

He definitely drew blood from my hand, but I didn't make a case of it. I learned the valuable lesson that you shouldn't assume anything about the nature of another guy's dog. Here's a picture of the EP's back end hanging out of the den...

That's the SECOND craziest thing I've ever seen a dog do if anybody cares to start a thread about that.

 

[Allamakee1]

It was early December a couple years ago. There was just a dusting of snow on the ground so you could see really well. We were walking up to a sink whole when Misty (my GSP) went on point on the edge. I started walking up and the rooster flushed. I nocked it down and it landed in cow pasture. It started running immediatly. My dog had to find a way under a barbwire fence, but was right after it. It ended up running towards a junk pile a farmer had in his pasture. When the rooster got to the junk pile it found an old rusted out car. It ran underneath the car and I was worried we might loose it. But, my shorthair ran right under the car too. The floor of the car must have been rusted out, because the next thing I know Misty is chasing around this rooster inside the car. The rooster is able to slip her a little and runs through the back seat out the back window and over the top of the trunk WITH Misty still chasing him. Once the rooster is out, I dont know if he had enough or was that scared of being caught by Misty, but he ended up running strait at me before she caught him about 7-8 yards in front of me.