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Well too many cock pheasants.
Hundreds of thousands of pheasants are reared and released each year but due to the Chinese virus lockdown driven shooting in the UK was stopped.
This has resulted in a huge surplus of pheasants. This wouldn't be so bad if these survivers went on to breed in the wild, unfortunately game farm reared birds make poor parents and the habitat isn't the best for wild bird survival. One problem is the ratio of cocks to hens, too many cock birds results in hens being pestered to death and not able to sit on eggs. When I was a gamekeeper pheasants were caught up at the end of the season and used for egg production for next seasons birds, surplus cocks were culled for the freezer. The so called gamekeeper where I live has done none of this he even stopped feeding his birds when shooting was stopped. I regularly have twenty cock pheasants feeding on my wild bird food and at best only five or six hens, it's the same all over the estate, this means there is zero chance of any wild chicks survival. If I had known this was going to happen I could have put catchers in the wood and sold the birds on and made some cash....
Whatever you do always give 100%........... unless you are donating blood.
Sorry for that lapse in sound bird management GK. Too bad we can't arrange to ship a bunch of your "fellas" over the pond to salt some of our CRP lands here.
D. Brian Casady
Quid Llatine Dictum Sit, Altum Viditur.
Advanced is being able to do the basics while your leg is on fire---Bill Jeans
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up---Robert Frost
I would bring my side by side 20 gauge to help feed your population. Wild birds are high quality protein.
D. Brian Casady
Quid Llatine Dictum Sit, Altum Viditur.
Advanced is being able to do the basics while your leg is on fire---Bill Jeans
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up---Robert Frost
gamekeeper wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 5:32 am
Well too many cock pheasants.
Hundreds of thousands of pheasants are reared and released each year but due to the Chinese virus lockdown driven shooting in the UK was stopped.
This has resulted in a huge surplus of pheasants.
Gee John, I'm thinking you need a heavy dose of Nath!
Luckily Nath and other "that are called rough shooters in the UK" were not affected by the ban so we could still enjoy our sport.. it was the toffs with money to burn that lost their sport.. the government thought it was too difficult to "social distance" with large groups of shooters and beaters, the gamekeepers lost their considerable tips too.
Nath has probably encountered the same situation where he lives and I'm sure has made lots of smoke and dined well...
Whatever you do always give 100%........... unless you are donating blood.
I did a rough count, sure I missed a few in my journal and February was a total loss with 30 inches of snow but anyhow 56 in the bag,
Brutus & Bruintus would likely count for a few!
GunnyMack wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 5:27 pm
I did a rough count, sure I missed a few in my journal and February was a total loss with 30 inches of snow but anyhow 56 in the bag,
Brutus & Bruintus would likely count for a few!
From four tower/driven shoots I’ve brought home 77 and 9 partridge . Only had partridge at one shoot this season . I’m going on the final quail deal of this season in the morning .
Parkers , Mannlicher Schoenauer’s , 6.5mm's and my family in the Philippines !
Blaine wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 12:07 pm Peasants? Let them eat cake.
They are my people. They love me. PULL!
D. Brian Casady
Quid Llatine Dictum Sit, Altum Viditur.
Advanced is being able to do the basics while your leg is on fire---Bill Jeans
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up---Robert Frost
I've known more than a few people who tried to introduce pheasants to this part of Texas. It has always been unsuccessful becasue of weather, predators.....any excuse you can name. They just won't make in the wild. But they seem to do well up north.
D. Brian Casady
Quid Llatine Dictum Sit, Altum Viditur.
Advanced is being able to do the basics while your leg is on fire---Bill Jeans
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up---Robert Frost
piller wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 2:04 pm
Still some out around Amarillo.
Only in the morning tho!
30/30 Winchester: Not accurate enough fer varmints, barely adequate for small deer; BUT In a 10" to 14" barrelled pistol; is good for moose/elk to 200 yards; ground squirrels to 300 metres
250 Savage... its what the 223 wishes it could be...!
it was the toffs with money to burn that lost their sport.. 
the government thought it was too difficult to "social distance" with large groups of shooters and beaters, the gamekeepers lost their considerable tips too.
