The flush

Whenever I see public hunting spots that are just getting slammed by hunters the last 5 years, I know that the reason is television, and YouTube. Some of these places used to be really good 10 or 15 years ago, or they were decent anyway, but now, if you get one bird in there, you are doing well.
 
One thing about the flush, those guys have a bunch of networking going on. I doubt it's burning boot leather and gasoline to find spots. It's more like jingling a few phones and sending some PM's. On top of it all they Hotspot like crazy.
 
I will say that the majority of the hunting you see on the Flush and Rooster Tales is fair chase wild birds. There have been episodes where they go to a lodge, and you can immediately see the difference in the birds. I have personally run into the Rooster Road trip guys when they were out a couple years ago for IA opener. A buddy and I were having dinner at a small-town bar, and they were sitting right next to us. We know most of them from PF and Pheasant Fest, so it was fun to chat and catch up with them. I will say when they do the Rooster Road Trip it is 100% public land. The spot they hunted that next morning for IA opener, I myself have walked over a dozen times with good success. Not all the shows are BS, you need to remember this is TV and they need to appeal to the masses.
 
Bob Peters said:
One thing about the flush, those guys have a bunch of networking going on. I doubt it's burning boot leather and gasoline to find spots. It's more like jingling a few phones and sending some PM's. On top of it all they Hotspot like crazy.
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Yeah big 👎on all those ass grabbing fools!!
 
I had to laugh when I watched a Roger Raglin hunting with a 4.10 He was walking down a mowed strip yakking on about the habits of the pheasants and how he thought they would be up here feeding on the Milo. Don't get me wrong, I shoot a lot of flare nares, but I don't want to watch it on TV. And yes it did look like some of the episodes were real birds. I just didn't understand why they would pick Ron Shara and not me or Goose!:mad:
 
The Flush and PF’s Rooster Road Trip are interesting in that they each have a product to sell.

Depending on where you are at in your hunting career, an episode may or may not interest you.

On one hand it would be nice to make / get a call, send / receive a text or whatever and get an invite to good public or private land.

On the other hand it’s fun to find your own spots.

A lot of what they hunt, IMO, are wild birds but some of it is kick and shoot type stuff.

Everything has its place.
 
Out of hiatus for a brief post.

Schara was a better outdoors writer (Minneapolis StarTribune) than an outdoor show host. His show often hunted some of the top private land spots in SD. I cannot take his speaking style.

Bob Peters is absolutely correct. Flush and Rooster Tales are connected well. Bob St. Pierre is the Chief Marketing Officer of Pheasants Forever. That show uses on the ground PF biologists (across the entire range) to point them to hot spots. Those shows are palatable if I have nothing else going on ... ie ... temps are -20 or we are in a blizzard.

Many of those hosts are dressed to the T because sponsors expect them to wear what they are hawking ... I suppose my 20+ year old Gander Mountain vest, raggedy sweatshirt or faded Beretta fleece quarter zip, and blue jeans would not fit in with that "Gucci" crowd. Even my boots are over 3 years old.

Chad Belding moves from one private outfitter to the next. Well sponsored and I am sure unwary outfitters line up to give it all away to him. Years ago, I became friends of a large waterfowl outfitter in South Louisiana. He told me that the return on hosting a TV show was negative ... cost of hosting far outweighed any new clientele.
 
LCR10A said:
The Flush and PF’s Rooster Road Trip are interesting in that they each have a product to sell.

Depending on where you are at in your hunting career, an episode may or may not interest you.

On one hand it would be nice to make / get a call, send / receive a text or whatever and get an invite to good public or private land.

On the other hand it’s fun to find your own spots.

A lot of what they hunt, IMO, are wild birds but some of it is kick and shoot type stuff.

Everything has its place.
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I think everything those guys hunt is staged.
 
I watch The Flush often, they seem to get out in some really rotten zero-degree weather and pound through some jungle-class, hairy public ground---wonder if some of the nay-sayers on here would do that to shoot a couple birds?? They're trying to entice newcomers to pheasant hunting, and Lord knows we need all the support we can get.
Someone mentioned Lewistown, MT. a few posts back....my son and I just returned from there, hunted the area a few days on a rainy, snowy, windy opening week and did manage to find wild birds, in coulees and ravines adjacent to cow pastures SW of Lewistown. You had to be careful to avoid the literal bullshit, but the hunting was fun. Saw lots of mule deer and whitetails. Took a trip, courtesy of a friend with a Polaris Northstar, to the top of the Little Snowy Mountains east of Lewistown and saw deer, elk, an eagle, coyotes and a bobcat. It's the wildest place I've ever been. Montanans are lucky to live in such an unspoiled place!!
 
Wolfchief said:
I watch The Flush often, they seem to get out in some really rotten zero-degree weather and pound through some jungle-class, hairy public ground---wonder if some of the nay-sayers on here would do that to shoot a couple birds?? They're trying to entice newcomers to pheasant hunting, and Lord knows we need all the support we can get.
Someone mentioned Lewistown, MT. a few posts back....my son and I just returned from there, hunted the area a few days on a rainy, snowy, windy opening week and did manage to find wild birds, in coulees and ravines adjacent to cow pastures SW of Lewistown. You had to be careful to avoid the literal bullshit, but the hunting was fun. Saw lots of mule deer and whitetails. Took a trip, courtesy of a friend with a Polaris Northstar, to the top of the Little Snowy Mountains east of Lewistown and saw deer, elk, an eagle, coyotes and a bobcat. It's the wildest place I've ever been. Montanans are lucky to live in such an unspoiled place!!
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Shhhh!
 
Goosemaster said:
I think everything those guys hunt is staged.
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Really?? Shows you are so clueless or haven’t watched many shows. They hike several miles deep in the mountains of Alaska to hunt ptarmigans. Did you see some yeti back there planting birds for them? How about in Minnesota or Canada ruff grouse and woodcock hunting on roadless islands where the trees are so thick you can barely raise your gun. That didn’t look fake to me. I wish they would invite you on a chukar hunt in Idaho. I bet after 30 minutes your sorry ass would be dragging and you would be wishing for a bird boy planting birds.
 
I've got a buddy and he'd been hunting a great pheasant area for 25 years give or take. At the campground he used the most campsites he ever saw occupied was three, this was during opening week. The Flush did a show there, going on about how great the hunting was and how it was off the radar of well known spots. The next year he showed up and the campground was teeming with hunters with license plates from across the country. He had a new SUV pull up to his spot the next morning with California plates. They got to chatting and he asked, "how did you end up out here?" The reply was, "we saw an episode of the flush." I'm not against a tv show that explains upland hunting to the public. But putting specific locations on blast to the world is something I can never agree with.
 
Golden Hour said:
I like to hunt alone with my dog. I prefer to watch others do the same. The Flush isn't marketed for me. I am already a pheasant hunter and I don't buy any of the apparel or gear they hawk.
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I really enjoy your videos and A5 sweet 16s videos. I think I mentioned it before, I had a yellow lab named Miley that could be Sages clone. I am stuck in western Montana and don’t get to hunt pheasants as much as I would like. When I do travel to hunt them it is way tougher than it use to be, lack of CRP and more farmers grazing cattle after the harvest.

I got to just bite the bullet and plan a trip to South Dakota. I am turning 65 soon and my wife said we should go on a trip for your birthday, where you want to go? 😁 I think she was thinking a warm place. I am watching the temps hit 60 here this week and wondering when are ducks will start migrating. 🤣 It could be below zero in a couple weeks and they will fly right over us. 1000002455.jpeg
 
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