Thread: Pheasant hunting 19.12.15

Originally Posted by dretopshot

Thanks. To be honest there is very few truely wild pheasants nowadays, most birds have originated from released birds at some stage.

These birds were bought at 8 weeks old in august, put in a holding pen, released at the end of September, started shooting in November. So they had 2 months in the wild getting chased by foxes & birds of prey before we started hunting them.

I know not everyone will agree with this hunting. However, if you watch the video you will see that a lot of non-sporting birds were left to fly another day.


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many here forget that f&g used to do exactly that here in some regions to boost bird numbers until it became ''uneconomic'
they flushed as wild as any wild bird from what i saw on the vid and certainly bear no resemblence to ''planted'' stateside preserve birds.
you havent lived untill you.ve had a wild pheasant flush 3 feet in front of your gsp,s nose cackling the whole way up or from a bush you wouldnt think would hold a sparrow via a flushing dog.