Pheasant opener who is going?

[bigbossman]

Interesting but I've seen a few dead roosters roadside in the last couple weeks. 2 on I-5 (Fairfield to Sac area) and one on 37 (Napa Marsh). I can't recall the last time I saw a roadkill rooster. Used to be common occurrence around Butte Sink, etc. The I-5 ones coulda been pen birds...dunno.

I was hunting rabbits in Wyoming a week or so ago - saw several dead rabbits and precious few live ones. It was weird seeing dead rabbits that even the predators wouldn't touch. DFG told me it was an outbreak of Hemorrhagic Fever. Maybe something similar for the birds?

[JagerDog]

I was hunting rabbits in Wyoming a week or so ago - saw several dead rabbits and precious few live ones. It was weird seeing dead rabbits that even the predators wouldn't touch. DFG told me it was an outbreak of Hemorrhagic Fever. Maybe something similar for the birds?

I meant just roadkill. Birds would come roadside in the a.m. to get gravel and end up colliding.

With the major depletion of chickens the last decade or so, it' rare to see roadkill anymore.

[CABilly]

Took the dogs out to the club for our first outing of the year last week. Shot what WOULD have been a $1500+ rooster, if only I'd remembered to enter the longest tail feather contest in advance. I enter every year, but we got there late and was just going to do it when we came back in. Welp, just so happened to bag the biggest, baddest rooster I'd seen in our 5 years of being a member. He was heavy, fat, had a big crest/buffle on his head, and the longest tail feathers I've seen from a farmed bird. Hit him twice and he kept flying like I missed for another 60 yards before just dropping out of the sky. Last year's winner was around 25". This one was 27.25.

Oh well, the dog did his job on him. I like our club. The birds actually flush and are all healthy and robust. I've been on club shoots where the dogs just pick them all up or they literally have to be kicked into the air. Not fun at all.

[tanks]

I just returned from South Dakota, not enough places nearby to hunt pheasants anymore.
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I was supposed to do a driven Pheasant hunt in Scotland last month but then Covid...

Too late to book a pheasant hunt with friends in SD and I didn't want to hunt solo as you really need the blockers.

[edgerly779]

So who is going and where club or freelance?

[duckman1]

Just returned from South Dakota, Chamberlain this time. Limits of wild birds daily for the 8 of us. Guide said that over 1,000,000 are taken each year.


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[edgerly779]

Good hunt I used to hunt nebraska but that has declined.

[JagerDog]

Just returned from South Dakota, Chamberlain this time. Limits of wild birds daily for the 8 of us. Guide said that over 1,000,000 are taken each year.


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Couple buddies went to SD. Limits around for 5 days. Banner year. Always good, but this was beyond good.

Prairie pothole region above Mitchell. Mix of private and public land.

[Bull Elk]

I just returned from South Dakota, not enough places nearby to hunt pheasants anymore.


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We?re you hunting public access areas, not private land?

[Bull Elk]

This 👆 no more or very few wild birds anymore.

Planters are not much fun when you have to kick them in the arse to fly.

Very true. I?ve talked to a number of hunters who think they are hunting wild birds when in fact they are planted birds that flew off a private club.