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I shot this pheasant last fall, the only problem, way too close for the old Winchester model 12 with a full choke! That's its tail exploding!
The setter belongs to the guys I was hunting with, great little dog. Oh, that's my 12.
How NOT to shoot a pheasant!!
I shot this pheasant last fall, the only problem, way too close for the old Winchester model 12 with a full choke! That's its tail exploding!
The setter belongs to the guys I was hunting with, great little dog. Oh, that's my 12.
Aim higher, or get a bigger gun.
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I freaked out on my very first pheasant and put a silver dollar-sized hole right through both breasts when I pulled the trigger at about 5 yards. You can see from this pic that one of these birds is assuredly NOT like the other. I pulled the wing over it to hide the crater in his side.
(Great looking dog and beautiful gun, by the way.)
I love that shotgun. The Model 12 is the best pump shotgun ever made, in my opinion.
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
Yep, walking along a RR track in northern Kansas on the last day of a three day pheasant hut. The first two days were incredible, but the weather turned (light snow, wind) on the morning of the 3rd day, and we were having trouble filling our limit. I guess I got over-anxious because of this (back in Louisiana there aren't any pheasants, so we wanted to go home with as many as we could legally get), and I wound up blasting one flying straight away that couldn't have been over six yards from my muzzle.
It's too bad you can't eat wing-tips, because that's about all that was left.
I also saw my Dad do the same thing with a swamp rabbit. About 10 yards away, crouched down and facing him. He didn't "hold off" enough, and we wound up with about a 3 foot long string of bloody rabbit hide and fur. There wasn't a single recognizable body part left of that bunny.
Mike
N454casull
Best shot I ever made was in front of my new girlfriend (later became my wife and then exwife) and her father.
Took them up to show them our farm block and pick up a trailer load of firewood that had already been cut and dried. Also took my AYA SXS and Setter.
We loaded the firewood then went for a walk over the property. Dog got real 'birdy' and started working a steep scrub/tree covered gully. I heard the bird get up and knew it would fly down the gully so waited where the gully opened out.
As the bird cleared the end of the trees I swung the 12g through it and 'slapped' the trigger. Bird was only 20' above me when it collapsed. Shot the head clean off it!
Dog returns and fetches the bird..........then goes and brings back the head.
Off course, I didn't say anything and pretended that this was how I normally shot............the truth is however, I didn't want to miss in front of the prospective FIL etc and it was just sheer luck that I didn't turn it into red mist. FIL wasn't a hunter and didn't realise the difference between blind luck and skill, but he told all his buddies that his prospective SIL shot the heads off his birds so that there wasn't any meat damage............
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