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Really nice, give Jess a pat on the head from me.
Hatchet-Jack
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Good hunting and a beautiful bird!
Would love to have pheasants to shoot around here. I've seen three in 30 years here in NY I do believe. When I lived in Minnesota in the 70's we used to get our limit every weekend. Good shooting and enjoy the meat.
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Haha when stationed in Korea75-76 while on guard duty pheasants would flush and I'd follow their flight with my m-16 . brrrrrrrap
By the fairly contained wet slobber mark on the squirrel, it doesn't look like Jess worried it over too much! 
Good shooting!
Good shooting!
Good job! Nice to see Jess also!
Nice pheasants!
It came charging through the oaks making for a hole in a tree. I waited for it to stop before it disappeared. It did stop.By the fairly contained wet slobber mark on the squirrel, it doesn't look like Jess worried it over too much!
Good shooting!
As I fired it started to bolt again but it fell out of the tree. I was unsure how well I had shot it so fearing a charge I released my savage hound (
) to neutralise the threat!
Ahhh so you have attack squirrels in England too...LOL
Good hunting!
Jess wants some tail feathers for his hunting hat. I sure wish I had some fresh pheasant to enjoy. Nice shooting
This used to be pheasant heaven. In the mid '70s the population started to decline and then crashed. Plenty of reasons to point at but no one really knows. I feel the decline was too abrupt and too pronounced to blame on habitat, farming practices, chemicals and the other usual suspects. Raptors are back in force, but that was not the case in 1975. I know a retired state trooper who carried a personal shotgun in his cruiser to hunt pheasant on his lunch break. He said the mid 70's it was like the Lord just turned off the pheasant faucet.
They put out farmed birds now here and there. A farmed pheasant is a dumb bird with no survival instinct. The gun club gave me three to put out here. They sat on a tree limb and waited for the owl that ripped out their breast meat.
They put out farmed birds now here and there. A farmed pheasant is a dumb bird with no survival instinct. The gun club gave me three to put out here. They sat on a tree limb and waited for the owl that ripped out their breast meat.
Well Britt you made my day. 
Gold Grizzly
40 Cal
Pheasants were introduced in Oregone years ago and they released them in a small wetlands area. I would almost hit them driving to work, they were pretty plentiful. Not sure if they are still there.
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Great shooting Britsmoothy.
