11 thoughts on “For Deathray, a Ring-Necked Pheasant. Both of us have shot a lot of these birds.”
This is true. I’ve never seen one with any blue like that though.
Regardless, they are beautiful.
Seen (shot at) them with the blue tint on the back way up north, but that guy looks like he’s had his wings clipped so we could be seeing more than usual.
Bagged more than a few myself when I was growing up.
Had a few up at Maple rise camp. Cheeky little bastards, thought they owned the place!
Death and Cedreq, don’t you mean to say, “shot >at< a lot of these birds", to be precise? Two old farts, looking through rosy lenses at the hunting prowess of their misbegoten yoot.
I have not shot enough of them. Have to travel for it. Great fun though, plenty of quail. Dad knew every big rancher in the state and he was a machine when the season was on. He probably hunted 40 days and back then it was only M, T, Th, S.
Wait, there’s a way besides hitting them with your car to bag one?
Try a motorcycle. I’ve hit two. One the fairing stopped. The other my hand. Neither survived. My shorts came in second as well…
Jeffersonian.
LOL!
Living in South Dakota the pheasants live in the road mediums and right a ways besides the fields and sloughs. If you were smart and hit a small flock rising, you gathered them up and had dinner that night, just don’t get caught with road kill/injured birds. You or the coyotes….
In Australia and New Zealand, apart from private land stocked with pheasants bred for hunting, they are feral game with no control or laws about their taking. So long as there isn’t too heavy a predation by foxes, dingoes or pythons, eat them every night if you want to.
This is true. I’ve never seen one with any blue like that though.
Regardless, they are beautiful.
Seen (shot at) them with the blue tint on the back way up north, but that guy looks like he’s had his wings clipped so we could be seeing more than usual.
Bagged more than a few myself when I was growing up.
Had a few up at Maple rise camp. Cheeky little bastards, thought they owned the place!
Death and Cedreq, don’t you mean to say, “shot >at< a lot of these birds", to be precise? Two old farts, looking through rosy lenses at the hunting prowess of their misbegoten yoot.
I have not shot enough of them. Have to travel for it. Great fun though, plenty of quail. Dad knew every big rancher in the state and he was a machine when the season was on. He probably hunted 40 days and back then it was only M, T, Th, S.
Wait, there’s a way besides hitting them with your car to bag one?
Try a motorcycle. I’ve hit two. One the fairing stopped. The other my hand. Neither survived. My shorts came in second as well…
Jeffersonian.
LOL!
Living in South Dakota the pheasants live in the road mediums and right a ways besides the fields and sloughs. If you were smart and hit a small flock rising, you gathered them up and had dinner that night, just don’t get caught with road kill/injured birds. You or the coyotes….
In Australia and New Zealand, apart from private land stocked with pheasants bred for hunting, they are feral game with no control or laws about their taking. So long as there isn’t too heavy a predation by foxes, dingoes or pythons, eat them every night if you want to.