Game Review

[bauerline]

I figure we could stay with the game theme since the season is just about over. I won't be going out on Saturday and with no late pheasant season close to home my season is pretty much over. So, how did your season go?

I got out as much as possible with the dogs and probably had around 20 days in the field. The dogs were able to find some birds each time we were out but I did not bag a bird on each outing. A few friends were able to go out and bag several roosters over the dogs. Blitz even made his first water retrieve on a bird my neighbor shot. I didn't keep track of numbers but I saw around 70 birds during the season. I even had some action on Thanksgiving morning. Some of those came off some nice points and others were wild flushes. Either way I was happy with the numbers. Both dogs worked well and had some fine moments working these birds that I will remember for a long time. I will try to get out some in the late season but I won't have as much time.

Looking forward to hearing about other reports on the season.

 

[FLDBRED]

I don't think I can type fast enough to put the season in review without getting the time-out! lol.

It's been a great season so far, we have had action every time out, on many occasions we took our limit very early in the hunt and had to switch over to grouse and woodcock. I didn't keep a record of how many birds, but it is quite a few. Easily one of the best years in a long time!
Interesting, Friday I went grouse hunting in NJ, mostly because of a tradition, and I actually flushed a grouse and just as interesting later in the day I saw three WILD pheasants! The wild pheasants were at the Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge.
It's been a fantastic year so far!

 

[bauerline]

Well, I lied. My wife said I should take the dogs out on the last day, so that's what I did. The dogs worked well from the start and had a point early at the edge of a switchgrass field:

It turned out to be a hen.

We worked some more without finding anything. I walked through the woods and worked a ditch where the dogs pointed another hen. We followed the ditch up to a wooded area where the dogs had another point. After a couple of relocations a rooster flushed and I knocked him down through the trees:

The last day of the season was a repeat of opening day, a single rooster in the monring. Here is a picture from this morning:

I'm glad I listened to my wife.

 

[HollowWatcher]

Good way to end the season! Penn State winning tops it off! Thanks for sharing your success throughout the season! I enjoy your posts!

 

[springerjohn]

My bird season started in mid Sept. with a nice preserve hunt and then 4 days of grouse hunting in Maine in early Oct. November was a mixture of Pa. grouse and PGC stocked pheasants. Now that the Pa. pheasant season is closed it will be a bunch of preserve hunts and in Feb. a 3 day trip to the Westervelt lodge in Alabama for quail. I usually end it with a 250 bird European shoot in March at Warriors Mark shooting preserve in Mid March, wish the season was a little bit longer!

 

[snipet]

this was my first season here in PA and I was glad to have the chance to do some pheasant hunting.

three out of four successful hunts itnt bad at all. I got to meet some new people and had an overall great time. Im going to hunker down and try to get a deer, you would think it would be easy having two different states to hunt, ha, and when the other seasons open up in the centeral Pa counties I will prolly make a trip or two up there.

From looking at everyone elses results, I think its going to be a good thing for pheasant hunting in Pa.