Thread: eastern f&g pass some wierd shit

Originally Posted by Toby

I've been out enough to know that 1 hen pheasant a day for 2 days of the whole season wont do diddly squat considering there will be next to no one that will go out after the one hen anyway.

This is part of a process of acceptance. Eastern Region with a pheasant limit of 5 cocks has been doing something right. Why change it?

Most of us have managed to shoot a cock as our first pheasant, which- although may prove difficult initially brings about a real sense of achievement when it occurs- like anything earned. My guess this is more about changing a culture, not the actual shooting of wild hen birds.

Originally Posted by Tim Allen

This is part of a process of acceptance. Eastern Region with a pheasant limit of 5 cocks has been doing something right. Why change it?

Most of us have managed to shoot a cock as our first pheasant, which- although may prove difficult initially brings about a real sense of achievement when it occurs- like anything earned. My guess this is more about changing a culture, not the actual shooting of wild hen birds.

I suspect you are entirely correct, @Tim Allen...there is a sound rationale behind protecting hens WHERE THERE IS A SMALL/SPARSE POPULATION...lucky ones who can bag hens as well...there must be some birds up there...

]i wonder if you set a hen as well as cock limit do you then encourage to some extent the if it flys it dies mentality??
well a hen maybe a feed a cocks a feed a trophy and a hard flushing,cackling,nappy change producing ,gaudy son of a bitch, that i love to hate then love again
this depending on the hunt the dogs work my shooting the birds condition colouring
just hard to get excited about killing a hen after 39 years of bieng told hell no.
dont get me started on pointed and flushed quail
how is it possible to miss as often as i do a bird not much bigger than a bull sparrow with 300 odd pellets at 30 feet??christ last season i barely kept myself in roast quail and veges including at least two trips to the gunshop for more 9,s
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Originally Posted by gsp follower

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dont get me started on pointed and flushed quail
how is it possible to miss as often as i do a bird not much bigger than a bull sparrow with 300 odd pellets at 30 feet??christ last season i barely kept myself in roast quail and veges including at least two trips to the gunshop for more 9,s

Originally Posted by EeeBees

I suspect you are entirely correct, @Tim Allen...there is a sound rationale behind protecting hens WHERE THERE IS A SMALL/SPARSE POPULATION...lucky ones who can bag hens as well...there must be some birds up there...

Can't argue there EeeBee's, though I'd have thought increasing the rooster harvest from 5 to whatever would be the go if the population needed controlling.