henhenROOSTER!!!
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Dec 9th with sub-zero temps & a fresh blanket of snow with drifting was the best pheasant hunt of my life to date...We saw pheasants everywhere we went - in the evergreen shelterbelts, in roadside ditchbanks, in the middle of the road picking gravel, in the corn, in old abandoned grown-up farmsteads, in tiny & isolated irrigation pits, even in old wheatfields...The dogs had a blast rooting & digging em out from under the snow!!!
My personal best mind-photo of the day was the lone "Pheasant Tree" in a tiny, isolated old irrigation pit...It looked like a Christmas tree decorated to the hilt from top-to-bottom with psycadelic roosters!!! Would've traded my limit for a Christmas card pic of that, but the wily little devils with their sentry/lookouts would never allow anyone within a country mile for that!...My hunting partner blurted out a loud "Jesus Christ" as we passed by - being a minister and all I didn't even bother to preach at him, I just whispered a grinning/understanding prayer and said a quiet Hallelujah!!! :10sign:
I am hooked on pheasant hunting in the snow for life - you can bet the very next time the white stuff falls during season, if at all possible I will be dropping everything & barreling straight for eastern CO!!! The difference in being able to work the dogs on late-season birds that actually hold tight instead of running-&-flushing wild is night and day!!!...I paid with the missus for that trip, coming right on the heels of a two-day hunt in NE - normally I would not suggest or endorse such married-life behavior but we are all human & like a dog who knows better chasing after the flush, I saw opportunity knocking and was willing to just take my licks for this one - and I don't regret it one bit!!!
MORAL OF THE STORY: If you possibly can, drop everything & go rooster-chasing immediately after the next snowstorm - you will not be sorry you did!!!
My personal best mind-photo of the day was the lone "Pheasant Tree" in a tiny, isolated old irrigation pit...It looked like a Christmas tree decorated to the hilt from top-to-bottom with psycadelic roosters!!! Would've traded my limit for a Christmas card pic of that, but the wily little devils with their sentry/lookouts would never allow anyone within a country mile for that!...My hunting partner blurted out a loud "Jesus Christ" as we passed by - being a minister and all I didn't even bother to preach at him, I just whispered a grinning/understanding prayer and said a quiet Hallelujah!!! :10sign:
I am hooked on pheasant hunting in the snow for life - you can bet the very next time the white stuff falls during season, if at all possible I will be dropping everything & barreling straight for eastern CO!!! The difference in being able to work the dogs on late-season birds that actually hold tight instead of running-&-flushing wild is night and day!!!...I paid with the missus for that trip, coming right on the heels of a two-day hunt in NE - normally I would not suggest or endorse such married-life behavior but we are all human & like a dog who knows better chasing after the flush, I saw opportunity knocking and was willing to just take my licks for this one - and I don't regret it one bit!!!
MORAL OF THE STORY: If you possibly can, drop everything & go rooster-chasing immediately after the next snowstorm - you will not be sorry you did!!!