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Re: Killing animals
« Reply #1300 on: June 29, 2017, 05:33:10 PM »
he is hunting mice for the thrill and semi-sexual satisfaction of being able to provide for his family as a man should. fun money.

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Re: Killing animals
« Reply #1301 on: June 29, 2017, 05:37:52 PM »
I recommend a baseball bat
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Re: Killing animals
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Re: Killing animals
« Reply #1303 on: July 07, 2017, 02:55:18 PM »
I just watched a special about a mystery bear shot in the NWT (Banks Island). Mother was a polar, father grizzly.

The hunter killed it, skinned it, and took the skull. Leaving the rest behind. Has it mounted, etc.

What's the point? I can appreciate the stalking, camping, hiking aspect. I don't understand the need to kill for a trophy.

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Re: Killing animals
« Reply #1304 on: July 07, 2017, 02:56:59 PM »
Pretty awesome wild hybrid though.

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Re: Killing animals
« Reply #1305 on: July 07, 2017, 03:25:06 PM »
The point is to have a giant hybrid bear mounted in your basement that you can tell people you shot

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Re: Killing animals
« Reply #1306 on: July 08, 2017, 08:35:21 AM »
He didn't know it when he shot it, thought it was a polar.

Is killing for killings sake that much fun? Am I missing out?

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Re: Killing animals
« Reply #1307 on: June 16, 2019, 09:46:16 AM »
I finally got around to completing my hunter education course and can now start killing animals legally in the state of KS. I'll probably go deer hunting at some point but I'm going to start with pheasant hunting and need all of the help I can get.

Background -

Between my Fathers and Aunts land (connected) we have around 960 acres of pasture/irrigated/dryland/crp land that I can hunt in northwest KS. I was looking at the the hunting atlas for KS and there is also a bajillion acres of walk in hunting land (mainly irrigated) just across the road from the farm. I will be going out there this fall with a couple of buddies who hunt but only 1 of them has ever been pheasant hunting before and that was like once.

I was banking on my good friend alexfromOP coming back in town and using his bird dogs but he cant make it anymore so I doubt we will have any dogs to work with.



I have been doing some basic research online

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1. What areas should we focus on first? The ditches/windbreaks by the house? The "creek" that runs through the pasture? The Irrigated or Dryland crop land? The fringes where everything meets?

2. Lets assume there are 4/5 of us with no good bird dog and talk strategy. Should we just slowly walk in a line about 20 ft apart until a bird flies up? I've read about having a "blocker" at the end of a field, is this effective?

3. What other tips do you have for a novice pheasant hunter?
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Re: Killing animals
« Reply #1308 on: June 16, 2019, 11:56:51 AM »
no dogs, no dice


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Re: Killing animals
« Reply #1309 on: June 16, 2019, 12:12:30 PM »
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Re: Killing animals
« Reply #1310 on: June 16, 2019, 01:25:23 PM »
I don't "get" the appeal.
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Re: Killing animals
« Reply #1311 on: June 16, 2019, 01:29:30 PM »
We need a wacky problems master thread.

Look at this amazing idea. I miss Emo
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Re: Killing animals
« Reply #1312 on: June 16, 2019, 01:37:44 PM »
I’d suggest a European hunt at one of the many fine ranches out that way.
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Re: Killing animals
« Reply #1313 on: June 16, 2019, 02:27:00 PM »
Just reread the entire Emo-elk saga. Amazing bbs'n from everyone involved
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Re: Killing animals
« Reply #1314 on: June 16, 2019, 02:42:33 PM »
even if your dogs don't give a crap about birds, just having a dog present can help induce the pheasants to fly.  otherwise you probably need to plan on using the terrain or position people to get them to stop running and start flying.

if there's lots of birds you can also just walk around aimlessly and at least a few of them will fly close enough for you to shoot them.
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Re: Killing animals
« Reply #1315 on: June 16, 2019, 08:59:22 PM »
even if your dogs don't give a crap about birds, just having a dog present can help induce the pheasants to fly.  otherwise you probably need to plan on using the terrain or position people to get them to stop running and start flying.

if there's lots of birds you can also just walk around aimlessly and at least a few of them will fly close enough for you to shoot them.

Sys, I've taken lady out with me when we shot guns 2 times. The first time she was out there when we were shooting 30.06 and she climbed in my trunk and curled up. Last year I took her out to western KS and was pew pewing with a .22, she curled up in a ball in the front passenger foot area of my dads trunk.

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Re: Killing animals
« Reply #1316 on: June 16, 2019, 09:06:13 PM »
So I just had fathers day dinner with my 2nd cousin whose dad used to live on the farm and now lives in town. She said her dad knows how to pheasant hunt and can teach me. She also said that she went with him a couple of times to hunt my farmstead about 10 years ago, the walk in hunters would push all the birds onto our land and they would just walk the ditch/tree line and pew pew 5-10 birds.  :excited:

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Re: Killing animals
« Reply #1317 on: June 17, 2019, 01:36:14 AM »
I have never hunted but recently won a shotgun at a pew pew forever banquet. I've always liked eating the game people have killed and think I might enjoy killing a bird or two. How does someone with zero background in hunting get started? Like, seems like a lot of barriers to entry. Also, do people actually hunt on public land? Seems like a good way to get accidentally 187'd by another hunter.  :dunno:

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Re: Killing animals
« Reply #1318 on: June 17, 2019, 06:40:22 AM »
I have never hunted but recently won a shotgun at a pew pew forever banquet. I've always liked eating the game people have killed and think I might enjoy killing a bird or two. How does someone with zero background in hunting get started? Like, seems like a lot of barriers to entry. Also, do people actually hunt on public land? Seems like a good way to get accidentally 187'd by another hunter.  :dunno:

Look up your local Pheasants forever. They will help anyone get into the sport public lands can be good you just have to be able to travel farther than the hunters who only want to meander 1/4 mile from the truck.
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Re: Killing animals
« Reply #1319 on: June 17, 2019, 09:33:16 AM »
here's how to pheasant hunt:  walk through a field. 
good luck guys, i've given you everything you need


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Re: Killing animals
« Reply #1320 on: June 17, 2019, 09:39:11 AM »
here's how to pheasant hunt:  walk through a field. 
good luck guys, i've given you everything you need

This. Bird hunting is not complicated. You walk around, they fly up, you shoot. Take a crack at a few clay pigeons to see if you can even hit a moving target first.

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Re: Killing animals
« Reply #1321 on: October 04, 2019, 03:34:36 PM »
Went hunting today with one of my friends dads on a game preserve outside Eudora (Eckmans) where they plant farm raised pheasant/quail in the field for you.

Blasted 4 Pheasant and 1 quail, didnt miss a shot. My buddies dad had 2 dogs that did like 90% of the work, they run around, find the bird then you go kick around until it flies up...it was a BLAST and I can't wait to do some real pheasant hunting this fall.

Seriously considering adopting some dog from a shelter that looks like it came from a hunting breed just so I can take it with me and hope it performs as well as the dogs I was with today.

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Re: Killing animals
« Reply #1322 on: October 04, 2019, 03:39:57 PM »
My dad just sent his new puppy off to dog hunting school last week  :th_twocents:
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Re: Killing animals
« Reply #1323 on: October 04, 2019, 06:51:13 PM »
What the holy hell has happened to your tag, my man!!!  :horrorsurprise:
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Re: Killing animals
« Reply #1324 on: October 06, 2019, 01:15:20 AM »
Seriously considering adopting some dog from a shelter that looks like it came from a hunting breed just so I can take it with me and hope it performs as well as the dogs I was with today.

my border collie always did fine on the birds.  your dog can figure it out.
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