The Big Question

Turkey. Just ask Ben Franklin...he lobbied for turkey to be our national symbol instead of eagle :)
 
Thor said:
Turkey. Just ask Ben Franklin...he lobbied for turkey to be our national symbol instead of eagle :)
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Turkeys are no doubt a bad ass bird, but one of the few birds I drag my feet on for hunting.

The sitting motionless for long periods of time with insects buzzing all around, the high from inhaling large amounts of deep woods off, nearly drives me insane!:eek:

My brother-in-law loves it and I just can't figure out how or why. What am I missing? lol
 
Pheasnat are way more fun to hunt (as are ducks, geese and grouse). However the question was posed "...all american bird to hunt"...No other game bird is more all american than turkey. After all, what is the tradional table fare for Thanksgiving...a distinctly American holiday!:)
 
You have a good point, but consider "Americans". Most all of us are here because of immigration. We're a mixture of many nationalities.

The American ring neck pheasant is basically the same as we are. He was brought here from a number of other countries and is a cross of many different lines of ring necks/pheasants.

The pheasant is a true "American" game bird.:cheers:
 
Ha Ha. You got me there! I can't make a more PC argument than that!! Turns out an immigrant bird is more all american than a native:D
 
I would have to go with the mallard duck, of course I am here in AR so that may make a little difference. Mallards can be hunted in most every state, probably account for more dollars spent than any other bird and can be hunted in lots of terrain - woods, flooded fields, marsh, coastal, rivers, even on dry land.

I will have to say though, that I really enjoy turkeys, pheasants and I would have to throw prairie chickens in the mix, though I have never taken one. We even once had prairie chickens here in AR, in the Grand Prairie region (Stuttgart area) - what is now rice country and mallard country. And we also had ruffed grouse - which we have tried to restock with little success.
 
What about doves? Around here Sept 1st has by far more hunters in the field than any other opener. I read that something like 100,000+ licenses are used only on Sept 1st in California. At $45 for a license plus $8.50 for an upland stamp is a lot of money for wildlife in one day, not to mention the excise tax on all those shells a one time per year hunter uses to bag 10 birds.:eek:
 
Thor said:
Ha Ha. You got me there! I can't make a more PC argument than that!! Turns out an immigrant bird is more all american than a native:D
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LOL. Thor, there's nothing I love more than being told I'm being "PC".:D
Gee-thanks.
 
The Prairie Chicken was so plentiful and such a HUGE part of the homestead era. Hard to believe it was the most common and most used of any other gamebird. Minnesota alone had several hundred thousandd Prairie chickens harvested per year until about the time combines appeared. Anybody remember "shocks" corn shocks, wheat, barley, oats where cut with binders then shocked in the fields. Corn shocks stayed in the fields until needed by farmers often well into Spring. The threshers for small grain made huge piles of straw that stayed in the fields. Threshing machines were not so efficient and lots of waste grain in the piles. Oldtimers say "Prairie Chickens by the thousands on these piles all Winter long.

Yup Prairie Chicken.
But I'd rather have a good bird dog on a Ring Neck.
An for sure The Ring Pheasant is an all American bird, We developed it like phez sez:) from many different strains to get the perfect game bird in North America.:thumbsup:
 
man its really hard to beat a combo hunt quail and pheasant flip a coin i dont care i guess i will say quail no no ditch parrot no quail well i will say it aint no freakin duck cmon really ?
 
Hard to beat a combination quail and pheasant hunt behind some excellent bird dogs, as far as Iam concerned nothing any more American than that.
 
Come on guys, it can't be pheasants or other imported birds.

For me it is clearly Bob White Quail. There is more than 100 years of tradition in this country hunting Bobs. Not to mention that quail hunting is the foundtion bird for the development of bird dog breeding in the country.

The only other bird close is Ruff grouse, which is a distant 2nd IMO.
 
SetterNut said:
Come on guys, it can't be pheasants or other imported birds.
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Okay SN. I like how you're laying down ground rules now that we're 2 pages into this thread:D

Let me refresh your memory with this threads first post;

"What is the all American bird to hunt? Pheasant, Duck, Goose, or Quail?"

I see the pheasant listed as an option my man. I'm stickin' with the PHEASANT:cheers:
 
1pheas4 said:
Okay SN. I like how you're laying down ground rules now that we're 2 pages into this thread:D

Let me refresh your memory with this threads first post;

"What is the all American bird to hunt? Pheasant, Duck, Goose, or Quail?"

I see the pheasant listed as an option my man. I'm stickin' with the PHEASANT:cheers:
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I suspect if I was hunting with flushing dogs pheasants might be my favorite bird to hunt. But a bird from China, can't be ALL AMERICAN ;)
 
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