Never seen this in 50 years of pheasant hunting

AtTheMurph

AtTheMurph

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Heading back to vehicles on Sunday one of or party yells out, "There's a live pheasant in the back of the truck!" I thought for sure it had to be the bird he had tossed in thinking it's dead. It wasn't. As we got closer I could see that cock standing upright ready to bolt and the bagged bird lying deader than a doornail right next to it.

I had limit so I wasn't going to shoot if it took off and dog was right there waiting to nab him if he was just wounded. Bird lasts out of truck bed as I get closer and buddy filled his limit when the bird took off like someone had called, "Pull!".
 
My son pulled out a "dead bird" yesterday and it took off like a track star! Lucky for us that Maggie was on it right away or I have no doubt we would have struggled to find it.
I have never had a healthy rooster anywhere near me. That seems really weird.
 
Roy B said:
My son pulled out a "dead bird" yesterday and it took off like a track star! Lucky for us that Maggie was on it right away or I have no doubt we would have struggled to find it.
I have never had a healthy rooster anywhere near me. That seems really weird.
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The guys in that truck had only bagged one bird before that happened and it was lying dead in the bed. Maybe that cock saw that dead bird and thought it was a good hiding place!
 
I feel the same way about this story as another one that I heard from an old friend. He said that he went home and put a pheasant (whole) in his chest freezer and came back the next day and it hopped out and low and behold it had opened a bag of mixed vegetables and ate them.
 
My cousin and I caught a bird in the tool shed as youngsters. No idea why it was in there. Getting it stuffed in a feed sack we apparently killed it. Dad was none to happy and insisted we clean it. So we go down to the basement and that first pull of feathers it rose like a phoenix. Round 2 was even wilder than the first! But we got it released seemingly none worse for the wear.
 
AtTheMurph said:
Heading back to vehicles on Sunday one of or party yells out, "There's a live pheasant in the back of the truck!" I thought for sure it had to be the bird he had tossed in thinking it's dead. It wasn't. As we got closer I could see that cock standing upright ready to bolt and the bagged bird lying deader than a doornail right next to it.

I had limit so I wasn't going to shoot if it took off and dog was right there waiting to nab him if he was just wounded. Bird lasts out of truck bed as I get closer and buddy filled his limit when the bird took off like someone had called, "Pull!".
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That's a bad karma event.
 
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