I've not seen stocking done after turkey day
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I hope you are wrong! Want to get one last good hunt in.
Likely at Berlin or Westborough tomorrow.
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I've not seen stocking done after turkey day
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I think you are right but I plan to go out in the morning just to get out.
Went out in Westboro this afternoon for the last 1.5 hours of day light and managed to dig 2 roosters out of the thick stuff.
It was a nice afternoon with the sun setting and only saw one other hunter; just the way I like it.
Scout will be sad the season is over. He was really getting the hang of it....
Wow, I wonder what it's been eating?
I know.
He was there again this morning crowing his head off as the sun came up.
Season opens Oct 18.
Anyone know what days they stock the Martin Burns WMA? Does this typically change year to year? Website says they stock it 3 days a week.
I may try and take Mondays off....
It goes to show that even the dumb pen birds still have some instinct. I used to be a member at a pheasant club in Wisconsin. There was one year that a number of birds survived the winter and the club owner had chicks on his property mid-summer!
While this may have been a tough winter for New England, this would be nothing for real wild pheasants. Spend a couple days in the Dakotas in Jan/Fed. THAT's a tough winter.
I am determined to bag my first pheasant this year. I have no hunting dogs.
I am determined to bag my first pheasant this year. I have no hunting dogs.
Have faith I bagged two and flushed 3 more (and missed em) last season with no dog........just crisscross the field ......having 3 or 4 guys helps but one of the hens I flushed was just me alone. Problem is the hens wait till you almost step on em to fly......I had a hen beat her wins in my face when she went up........scared the piss out of me and I whiffed.......
Anyway......you can be successful in stocked fields with no dog.
Also kick brush piles. They hide like rabbits sometimes.
I've been reading up on strategies for pheasant hunting with no dogs. There are different ways to do it, with or without other hunters.
There was one old guy who wrote an article in... Field and Stream maybe, not sure. But he said when his last pointer passed away he never wanted to get another dog just out of respect or sentimental reasons. Whatever his thinking was, he said that after a while of hunting solo he learned to flush pheasants by basically acting like a looney in the field. He'd walk up to a large shrub area or a fence/ tree line, then sprint up to it shouting as loud as he could and it would freak the birds enough to make them flush. Or he'd carry a handful of rocks in his vest and chuck them into a mass of shrubs while barking like a dog, and the birds would flush.
I wish I could find the article now. It was pretty funny. It ended with something like "I miss my ol' buddy, but I continue on and bag birds in his honor."
I hunt pheasant without a dog and I still manage to bag 4-6 a season. This year I was thinking of strapping a dog bell to my vest just to make extra noise and imitate the sound of an approaching dog. Honest opinion, would you guys think I was crazy if you saw me doing this?
I hunt pheasant without a dog and I still manage to bag 4-6 a season. This year I was thinking of strapping a dog bell to my vest just to make extra noise and imitate the sound of an approaching dog. Honest opinion, would you guys think I was crazy if you saw me doing this?
I'm a new member on this forum. I'm originally from Southeastern Massachusetts, but have been living in Chicago for the past three years. I've recently moved back to Massachusetts and am living in Boston. I'm very interested in hunting pheasant here, but don't know the best places to go. I've read up on the WMAs and the frequency with which they are stocked, but I wanted to know if anyone on this forum had specific experience with some areas being better than others. Thanks for your help! Looking forward to getting out there this year.