Your strong suit

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onpoint

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What do you consider your strong suit when it comes to your hunting?

Finding birds?
Getting permission?
Dog Training?
Habitat work?
Gun knowledge?
Best hunting buddy?

What is your strong suit when it comes to bird hunting?
 
None of the above -- my strong-suit is the cooking. I've been stuffing birds with fresh sage and garlic, barding them with strips of bacon and then hot smoking pheasants over apple twigs this fall. Leaves 'em tender and moist and straight out delicious.
My dog and Bridie get our share of birds, but we ain't elegant in the field. We sure are in the dining room, though.
 
TAC in CT said:
None of the above -- my strong-suit is the cooking. I've been stuffing birds with fresh sage and garlic, barding them with strips of bacon and then hot smoking pheasants over apple twigs this fall. Leaves 'em tender and moist and straight out delicious.
My dog and Bridie get our share of birds, but we ain't elegant in the field. We sure are in the dining room, though.
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Awesome! nobody has to choose from the list. They were just examples..spit them out!!! :10sign:
 
Definitely finding new spots and birds. I don't have a hunting partner who can find a new spot for us, its all up to me.
 
My BLF by far! She is a nitro dog and she is a bird finding/cornering machine. Unfortunately she is almost 8 and I'm betting she will be slowing down when next fall rolls around.
 
Always seem to get permission, I guess it is that I do not have a problem being told no, so I keep on asking! I will even ask landowners that told me no the previous year . They said they remembered me and gave me permission!!! I must be just pretty or something!!

Cooking as well!! Love cooking in the Dutch ovens!!!!

Figuring out when and what the birds are doing, feeding, roosting, ecsape routes etc.

Letting my dogs work!!! When they get birdy I just stop walking!!!! It may take 5 minutes for them to weed out scent and old scent or some that ran out and 1 or 2 that stayed!! I will not walk over birds by being in a military stomp to the end of the field!!!
 
i would say getting permission would be tops. I just have a disarming look to me i guess, dressed in my best old work Coveralls. Second would be thinking like a pheasant. I love hunting with newer hunters that give up on a field, right before old wiley rooster kicks out. If we were talking about what I do worst, lately it would be shooting. I kill it on the range, and have been in a slump in the field. Good post.
 
Picking apart big blocks of cover to run the dogs in the best way possible to kill birds. Got to find the cover within the cover to find what little wild birds we have.

Pure stubborn determination too.
 
Keeping the peace ... And understanding Panhandle pheasants.
 
An understanding wife:rolleyes:
 
I need to be hunting with you guys. I can't think of a darn thing that's superior. My dogs are well behaved but in my opinion average. My cooking revolves around pan frying. My humor dry . I do nearly universally hit the target, but not necessarily on the first shot. Can't really remember getting turned down to hunt but have places and don't ask much, and really hate it. Have a solid knowledge of game lore, but I sure know others that are better. Basically, I'm as strong as my weakest dog, stumbling along getting up for the shot. I attribute that to many mis-spent years leading the gentile life as a bobwhite specialist.
 
I am pretty good at finding birds, have decent dogs, and am willing to hunt a long time to find them.
 
onpoint said:
What do you consider your strong suit when it comes to your hunting?

Finding birds?
Getting permission?
Dog Training?
Habitat work?
Gun knowledge?
Best hunting buddy?

What is your strong suit when it comes to bird hunting?
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Kind of a two part deal I think. I don't get to go much and I'm a long way from pheasant country, so I pay attention to what the birds are telling me, and or have told me in the past! What seems to be the best cover where they are likely to be in a given field and hunting mehods that have worked in the past. Even on Large fields by myself I try to work the cover to my advantage, like walking along the edge and pushing towards a change of terrain ,and or cover. When I have a partner and walking an edge one is one the edge a few yards (3-5 yards) or so inside the very edge and the partner about thirty degrees ahead and maybe twenty or thirty yards deeper in the field. the angle tends top push birds into the pocket with the edge guy hanging back a bit riding drag so to speak. Reverse the position coming back just a bit wide of the deeper position and keep doing this to the other edge of the field. you will get most shots as you pinch off the field on the far edge.
I like to watch a field both early and at dark to see birds flying in or out of roosts. Gives an idea of what to expect for the morrow. That sort of thing helps me.

Certainly want to include my dog, and my wife that derives great joy from watching the hunt and picks us up on the far end! Saves a lot of walking and She's a real sweetie to accompany me an dmy dog! We've had a blast the last two years hunting in Nebraska and camping!
 
I think most guys that hunt with me would say I am good for 3 things... bringing the Dr Pepper, making the other guys feel good about their hunting skills, letting everyone else shoot the birds I should of shot.
 
Good judgement and belly laughs. That's what I bring to the hunt.:D

And a great dog too. Her greatest strength is hunting for the gun with minimal direction from me. I think she can read my mind sometimes.
Edit: Great dog by my standards...
 
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My strong suit is being persistant & quite. Being this way gets my dogs and I into birds. Ever look at a rooster's ear in comparision to the size of his head?
Walking the extra mile in the nasty stuff helps too:D

Our motto is hunt harder & smarter than the next guy!
 
Mine seems to be getting where the pheasants most likely will be.
Lots of Western grasslands don't hold pheasants.
The right mix of cover and food sources. :thumbsup:
 
My legs. Out here in the open country of the Great Plains the saying is, "You don't get pheasants with your gun. You get them with your legs."
 
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