GoldenHunter
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I had a golden and a lab as a kid that both would bring wild birds back to me a few times a season. All on private ground and all wild birds.
The dog caught a pheasant
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Brentbullets
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I have had MY limit multiple times without firing a shot. I say MY limit because any bird caught went in my bag because the other people in group didn’t fire a shot. This was on private ground and usually when it was cold and there was snow on the ground. Best eating pheasants are ones that are lead free.
Pen raised pheasant ,newly released are easy for dogs to just grap
I hunted yesterday on Idaho Fish and Game pheasant release area. The dumb pen raised Pheasant end up all standing in the road like a bunch of zombie pheasant .
Takes them awhile to get field smarts and hide in cover
Yesturday My 3 year old DK was hunting and all the sudden game running back to me retrieving a pheasant. So I used that bird to do alittle field training with my Pup
I've noticed Some of the Pen raised pheasant are not to healthy when the Fish and Game releases them.
I hunted yesterday on Idaho Fish and Game pheasant release area. The dumb pen raised Pheasant end up all standing in the road like a bunch of zombie pheasant .
Takes them awhile to get field smarts and hide in coverYesturday My 3 year old DK was hunting and all the sudden game running back to me retrieving a pheasant. So I used that bird to do alittle field training with my Pup
I've noticed Some of the Pen raised pheasant are not to healthy when the Fish and Game releases them.
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NDPheasant
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North Dakota does not allow party hunting for pheasants. Whose bag does the dog caught bird count towards?
Brentbullets
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The dog's owner or handler.
Al Bonkers
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I've had 2 labs over the past 15 years. My first one caught 1 hen and 1 rooster in 12 hunting seasons. My current lab has caught 2 roosters so far in her first 3 years. The last one was actually this summer while we were out exercising. I would walk the full perimeter of a 160 acre CRP field early in the morning and just let her "hunt". She was about 100 yards out in the grass when Isaw her go on point. This is a pretty regular occurrence during these exercise trips, so I kept walking, I walked about 10 more steps and looked back to make sure she wasn't still "pointing", and she was coming back to me carrying something. I was nervous because the last thing i was expecting was a pheasant. Sure enough, it was a mature rooster pheasant with plenty of life left in it when she brought it all the way back to me. About 5 feet away she dropped it, it took off running, but couldn't fly, and she caught it again. Not sure if it couldn't fly before and that's why she caught it, or if she broke a wing initially. The other was in heavy grass cover during hunting season, and she caught it out of the air during his flush. Hard to be mad as much as shells cost these days!
It is very common on rainy days in high grass. My shorthair caught two big, wild roosters in a row one morning. I think that was when I gave up hunting on rainy days.