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Wood child

Joined: 08 Jun 2010
Posts: 45

Posted: Sun Dec 12, 10 12:08 pm Post subject: Pheasant hunting
Not being in possession of a shotgun, I can't simply blast away at the pheasant. So where do aim for? The chest?

Brownbear

Joined: 28 May 2007
Posts: 14929
Location: South West

Posted: Sun Dec 12, 10 12:19 pm Post subject:
With what - please don't say a catapult.

Pilsbury

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 5645
Location: East london/Essex

Posted: Sun Dec 12, 10 12:21 pm Post subject:
Crossbow..... Ducks away from th fallout

misty07

Joined: 22 Jan 2010
Posts: 2223
Location: swindon wiltshire

Posted: Sun Dec 12, 10 12:45 pm Post subject:
air rifle? lol runs other direction

Pilsbury

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 5645
Location: East london/Essex

Posted: Sun Dec 12, 10 12:46 pm Post subject:

misty07 wrote:

air rifle? lol runs other direction

Nah that one is the sensible choice, only for sitting birds mind, Bow is the other option that needs to be avoided

Shane

Joined: 31 Oct 2005
Posts: 3467
Location: Doha. Is hot.

Posted: Sun Dec 12, 10 12:47 pm Post subject:
If you've got permission to shoot the pheasants, you've presumably also satisfied the landowner that your choice of weapon is appropriate...?

farmershort

Joined: 17 Nov 2010
Posts: 124
Location: Hampshire

Posted: Sun Dec 12, 10 12:49 pm Post subject:

Brownbear wrote:

With what - please don't say a catapult.

if it was, a shot anywhere in the chest cavity should cause a massive drop in blood pressure, stunning and killing the bird at the same time.

In the same way that when a pig is strung up in an abattoir, the electrodes just stun the animal, but the massive drop in bloody pressure when the throat i cut actually kills it.

I'm assuming air rifle - head shot, I'd say.

normally best to ask these things on jacksshed forum.

misty07

Joined: 22 Jan 2010
Posts: 2223
Location: swindon wiltshire

Posted: Sun Dec 12, 10 1:39 pm Post subject:
amount of fields i drive past id love to get an air rifle just to pop a cock pheasant in the head but you would need to be close id assume. i just want to try pheasant. once lol shoot it myself and everything

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Sun Dec 12, 10 1:55 pm Post subject:

Brownbear wrote:

With what - please don't say a catapult.

A car?

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35057
Location: Devon

Posted: Sun Dec 12, 10 2:23 pm Post subject:

misty07 wrote:

amount of fields i drive past id love to get an air rifle just to pop a cock pheasant in the head but you would need to be close id assume. i just want to try pheasant. once lol shoot it myself and everything

Those pheasants are someone's property. They have been bought and raised. Taking one without permission is no different from stealing someone's chicken.

Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 25795
Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism

Posted: Sun Dec 12, 10 3:20 pm Post subject:

Jamanda wrote:

misty07 wrote:

Those pheasants are someone's property. They have been bought and raised. Taking one without permission is no different from stealing someone's chicken.

Technically, IIRC, they're the property of the land owner, so if my neighbour buys them in and they fly onto my land I can shoot them.

Obviously Misty if you want to try and shoot one you must have the landowners permission or you could be done for armed trespass.

misty07

Joined: 22 Jan 2010
Posts: 2223
Location: swindon wiltshire

Posted: Sun Dec 12, 10 3:31 pm Post subject:
im not into ileagle sport i wouldnt do it id just meant id loveto stop as they get quite close sometimes i would love to try and shoot one one day

Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 25795
Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism

Posted: Sun Dec 12, 10 3:35 pm Post subject:
If they are as dopey as ones I've seen released you can drive with your windows open and they'd fly straight in.

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Sun Dec 12, 10 4:33 pm Post subject:
Frequently I've crept up close enough such that I could have a pheasant with a butterfly net. If only I had a butterfly net. Seems to me that they're bred to be slow and stupid.

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Sun Dec 12, 10 5:11 pm Post subject:

cab wrote:

Seems to me that they're bred to be slow and stupid.

How else do you think people who can afford a day's shooting ever manage to hit one?

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