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< 16ga. General Discussion ~ First pheasant in 30 years |
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Sat Jan 18, 2025 3:11 pm
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Joined: 28 Dec 2018
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I recently bought a citori on 16 ga from a member here
Being a farmer I don’t get a chance to hunt much
And our pheasant numbers are real bad
So a bought a farm across the road it’s been crp since 1985 and I know it holds some pheasants. So I grabbed the citori which I havnt fired yet and went to scout my new farm. We jumped 8 pheasants all too far
One held tight and jumped at my feet 1 1/8 4s put him down
After shooting quail and doves the pheasant looked big as a truck |
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Sat Jan 18, 2025 3:13 pm
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Joined: 15 Apr 2007
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Location: Amarillo, Texas
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Great, good news
Thank you for sharing |
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Sat Jan 18, 2025 4:04 pm
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Joined: 03 Jul 2006
Posts: 291
Location: SW Arkansas
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Great report, good for you and the new gun!
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Sat Jan 18, 2025 6:38 pm
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Joined: 27 Aug 2020
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Location: SE TX Marsh and Young County Tx
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Congrats on the new place & rooster! |
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Sun Jan 19, 2025 7:32 am
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Joined: 24 Jun 2013
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Location: canandaigua - western n.y. (formerly deerhunter)
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sounds like the beginning of an incureable habit !! |
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Sun Jan 19, 2025 2:00 pm
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Joined: 17 Mar 2017
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Location: Endless Mountains of Pa
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Rainier,
Congrats on a real nice Pheasant, also congrats on getting a farm that has some wild pheasants on it. Put some feed out for them once in a while in real bad weather and they will propagate for ya, if you have some female birds. Might be worth while purchasing a few hens to assure your wild birds remain on you new farm.
all the best,
Pine Creek/Dave
L.C. Smith Man |
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Sun Jan 19, 2025 10:23 pm
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Joined: 08 Feb 2009
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Location: Western WA
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Thank you Rainier, you touched a deep note there. Something about picking up a bird you haven’t hunted in 30 years takes you back for a brief moment to times and places you thought were gone forever.
All the Best
B. |
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Fri Jan 24, 2025 5:02 am
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Joined: 18 Aug 2010
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Location: Ballymoney Northern Ireland
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Congratulations, both on the Pheasant and buying the new farm , exciting time for you , thanks for sharing here .
PS we are riding out a storm here today, hopefully with not too much damage .
All the best WJ. |
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Fri Jan 24, 2025 10:14 pm
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Joined: 28 Dec 2018
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Hate to tell you all this but as a farmer it is a must to tear up this crp
And plant corn it breaks my hear in a way but have no choice as there is no other way to pay for it with land prices so high. If I hadn’t bought it the next guy would
I will do my best to save this wild population
I feel there are enough roosters to take one or 2 a season
Probbly the best thing I can do is predictor control. With fur prices nonexistent no one traps anymore so a nest has a hard time serviving the egg robbers.
There is some crp about 3/4 mile away. Maybe some will move over that direction
I palm to keep some grass established around the edges and has 2 good waterways
Would welcome some input. On management We jumped a huge covy of quail on there also but I never got a shot in that tall grass |
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Tue Jan 28, 2025 8:28 am
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Joined: 16 Jul 2015
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Location: Hudson,Wy
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This is the curse of modern farming. The land prices are so high and the equipment has grown so large and expensive, just to keep up with commodity prices and sustainable profit... that the whole system has become setup for the large corporate operations, who can afford small margins due to sheer volume, to continue buying out the normal farmer.
Ironically, if every farm in the country idled 25% of their land into CRP programs, the reduction in national output would drive commodity prices up to where this wouldn't happen. The sticky part of that, is just how do you get every farmer in the U.S. to do so when most of them are trying to pay off the land and equipment they purchased? The sad reality is that the ones with mortgages can't, and the government has been known to get a year or two behind on their CRP payments-something that the farmer can't afford.
I am glad you got to shoot a few birds at least once on your own property. It is a special privilege. |
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Tue Jan 28, 2025 12:55 pm
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Joined: 17 Mar 2017
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Location: Endless Mountains of Pa
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Gentlemen,
Wyochukar is absolutely right, there is nothing like the feeling of gunning wild birds on you own property, something special for sure. I have a great memory of shooting a big hen Turkey on my own property behind my Small Munsterlander gun dog, one of my fondestest memories is of Sampson prancing back to me with the 23 lb bird in his mouth at over 12 years old. A memory to last a life time, on my own property in Potter/Tioga Pa. Not to far from the front porch of our Log Cabin. The old SM dog use to lay on the front porch and see where he pointed, and retrieved the big bid to his master hands. Dogs do have quite a good memory themselves.
all the best,
Pine Creek/Dave
L.C. Smith Man |
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