Ultimate pheasant hunting

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how many have tried, seen, or been with someone who tried pheasant hunting with a bow and arrow

Ultimate- meaning- not out to kill a limit but the sheer experience of trying to get the wild rooster with a bow and arrow in flight
 
I seen it tried once. It was a total failure. He never hit one in flight or even came close.........Bob
 
I seen a guy who patterned the birds and was able to set up on them where they came out on the edge of a field. He set up his ground blind and arrowed them on the ground. I have seen them shot on the fly on outdoor programs with a bow.

For the record, I have zero interest in bow hunting of any kind. My sons on the other hand are head over heels for it.
 
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I have seen it done in person many years ago, with a long bow, no less, staunchy pointed birds in thick cover, slowed getting up, and the success rate was about 25%, which I thought was pretty good! Used a combination rubber blunt point, with folding wire hoop sytem called a flu-flu, I think. deployed and tangled, upon impact. This was real short range stuff, 10 yards or so effective range, arrow just lost momentum after that and dropped harmlessly.
 
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what's more ultimate than walking up on a dog locked up on a rooster- you come in cat footing, bow in your hand, as you watch the dogs eyes- a nice cackling rooster bust between you and the dog- you raise and instinctly draw and release

is it all about the kill-
 
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I have seen it done in person many years ago, with a long bow, no less, staunchy pointed birds in thick cover, slowed getting up, and the success rate was about 25%, which I thought was pretty good! Used a combination rubber blunt point, with folding wire hoop sytem called a flu-flu, I think. deployed and tangled, upon impact. This was real short range stuff, 10 yards or so effective range, arrow just lost momentum after that and dropped harmlessly.
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yes- up close and personal- hats off to you- you've seen it

one in 4- outstanding!
 
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thanks Crusader- brother and his wife came for a visit from Los Angeles- big boy was out there aways- I asked- "you got your camera"
 
Now that bird in that picture is the right kind to take a shot with a bow! Maybe Kansas should have a bow season, two weeks before the gun season starts. Give us all another topic, and boost sales of bows and equipment. I guess the real sports among us would use flushing dogs. On drives no broadheads allowed! Yikes! whole new hunter safety training topic, I shot an arrow in the air...... ended up in uncle Harry, blocking the end of the field.
 
flu flu arrows- I use my 2013 Eastons, cut off the vanes and install large feathers- as many as I can get on- out of my Dads old Fred Bear recurve I can't get one to go furthur than 75 yards- they die real quick and fall to the ground- sticking up- field points- you hit something those mass of feathers sort of stop the arrow

we used to shoot balloons with about the same setup at Topeka Bowhunters meets

I'm not all that good- I did hit one and missed 8 times- one morning
 
I hit one with a stick once but it was already dead the ass across the truck from me through it just as I was turning around
 
I'll see it first hand this pheasant season

I developed a love for pheasant hunting in my two younger boys (20 and 17), but my 20yo screwed up and got himself a felony conviction. Long story that turned out wonderful, but another day for details. As a felon he is not able to hunt with a firearm, but last year he got it in his heart to go after pheasants with a bow. This year he equipped my recurve with a new string and bought himself a half dozen flu-flu arrows. We have thrown up some foam targets and he has hit a few of them. He went with us to the clay shooting course and out of about 20 trys he nearly hit (within an inch or two) several of those clays. He has purchased his 2010 hunting license and we hunt at a Illinois DNR release location and he has gotten his reservation for a few hunt dates and we're going to let him have at it with a bow. I hunt over a field bred English Cocker and if all of the pieces come together Barney is going to flush a rooster up close in the grass and Jesse is going to knock it down with an arrow. :thumbsup:
 
My ex father in-law and his brother use to do it when there where still pheasants in WI. Long bows to boot but that is all they shoot. I think instinctive would be better anyways. The ex's uncle build one fine bow. One day I will pick one up.
http://www.3riversarchery.com/
 
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