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bref
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Catching pheasantsThe pheasants have just been released(well a couple of weeks now) for the shootng season and if they stray onto your land they are yours. If you havent got a gun, how can you make use of this wonderful food source. Obviously with traps.
One I heard of was like a lobsterpot kind of idea..feed the pheasants inside a wire enclosure for a few days , allowing them to wander in and out at will. After a couple of days, fit a wire mesh funnel to it....I would imagine you would need to actually get to the trap while the pheasants were feeding ....
what do ye all think???
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killerflies
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Id be very interested in hearing of any ideas there!
Ive heard of this technique, but the "auld boys" wont let you know everything!
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wayland
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You may not believe this, but it works  . Make cups of Ally foil about the size of a sherry glass. These cups should taper at the bottom but not to a point. The cups are slightly embedded into the ground so the wind does not take them but they must not be held too tight. Place a raisin into each cup, and scatter some raisins around. The pheasents love raisins and will take them with gusto. When they come to your cups they will shove their beaks through the bottom of the cups while trying to get at the raisin. When they lift their heads the cup comes up and cover their eyes which stops them in their tracks, and you can just go and pick them up. So now you are thinking "Oh Yer"!!!!. Well the effect is just the same as a Falconer who puts a hood on his Hawks etc when he wants them to be still. There are other less humain methods of taking Pheasants like hooking the raisin on fish hooks and staking the line to the ground but we wont talk about that. If they are roosting in trees, then their are many more ways of taking them, by night that is. Good luck.
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killerflies
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Well Ill be!
That HAS to be tried!
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blowin
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On a similar vein to Wayland's an old poaching trick was to put down food for a few days , get them used to feeding , then thread a length of cotton or fishing line thro ' a few of the grains/currants which you left in the feed pile . The birds would swallow the food but the cord woud be left hanging out of their beak . They would become totally preoccupied with trying to scratch it free and you could literally walk up to them and pick them up . Never tried it myself but it sounds plausible .
Can't condone anything like this on the forum , of course , so please don't even think about it !
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Torc
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Why not the oul basket or container propped up with a stick? You can have a very long string and spring it from a good distance. I have found that pheasants, most of whom have been hand-reared by 'hunters', will come to join my hens at feeding time.
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bref
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| blowin wrote: | On a similar vein to Wayland's an old poaching trick was to put down food for a few days , get them used to feeding , then thread a length of cotton or fishing line thro ' a few of the grains/currants which you left in the feed pile . The birds would swallow the food but the cord woud be left hanging out of their beak . They would become totally preoccupied with trying to scratch it free and you could literally walk up to them and pick them up . Never tried it myself but it sounds plausible .
Can't condone anything like this on the forum , of course , so please don't even think about it ! |
Yep Blowin, I saw this method mentioned in a book called The Poachers Handbook, only in there they recommended using the hair from a horses mane... Great book BTW for people interested in hunting/fieldsports..
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blowin
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| bref wrote: | | .... in there they recommended using the hair from a horses mane... |
So how do you catch the bloomin horse ?
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quarryman
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Well Blowin, you get a very big cardboard box and you support one end with a very big stick, you then tie a bit of string to the stick and wait in the bushes untill the men in the white coats come to get you..............................
It's OK I'm still taking the tablets......
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