Pheasant Goings On

[MR5x5]

I know you know that I know what you know, don't you know...

Is this great hatch as far and wide as it seems?

The Palouse is popping.

You all seeing the same?

[PaulandPeggy]

Good action around Moses Lake on pheasants.  I just moved to WA.  Y'all have a well-kept secret here.  Fun bird hunting!

[full choke]

Good action around Moses Lake on pheasants.  I just moved to WA.  Y'all have a well-kept secret here.  Fun bird hunting!

HaHa- that was funny.
Enjoy the ones you get, they won't be around much longer...

[LDennis24]

Yeah my fields full of them! No you can't hunt! I even have the State Patrol monitoring my property from all the road hunters popping shots off... It's irritating

[CoryTDF]

Yeah my fields full of them! No you can't hunt! I even have the State Patrol monitoring my property from all the road hunters popping shots off... It's irritating

What if I rope them and pull them into the road and dispatch them with my tire? LOL

[2MANY]

Sounds similar to the turkey thingy.

State plants them over the years, farmer claims them, and posts property.

[Henrydog]

Pretty sure I talked to that state patrolman 3 years ago. I was drinking a beer on Jordan Knott sitting on my tailgate with 3 roosters and my dog.   We BS'd for 20 minutes before he asked how many I had.  I told him I gave all my water to the dog.  He laughed and took off toward Endicott

[JBG]

I'm getting my a** kicked.  4 different hunts and have not found phez, quail, chukar, or hun.  WTF!!!!!

[LDennis24]

Yeah probably him. He lives in Lamont and is an avid hunter as well. He lost a nice bear down by Dayton last year. He looked for a month even just to find the skull but never did find it. He actually gets called to patrol that backwoods area for guys shooting from the road, no seatbelts on, beer drinking etc...

[LDennis24]

Sounds similar to the turkey thingy.

State plants them over the years, farmer claims them, and posts property.

The state plants them and they don't know how to act being in the wild for the first time so they get close to my buildings because that's what they know for the first year and eat grain along the ditch that blows out of trucks, then lazy "hunters" drive around and shoot them from their pickups. I see more of that than I do people getting out and walking. Just saying, no you can't hunt because I have livestock in my fields laying in the tall grass or in the trees and don't need them peppered with lead. Makes my place basically unhuntable. I'm not a farmer, they're the ones who don't get out. Cory if you can rope them then why would you shoot them!  just grab em by the head and spin them round like their at a kids birthday party and they're done!

[2MANY]

I get it and live on both sides of the problem.

I only wish farming wasn't as efficient as it now is.
Back before every eyebrow in every field was farmed or sprayed there was some real dandy bird hunting.

[CoryTDF]

Sounds similar to the turkey thingy.

State plants them over the years, farmer claims them, and posts property.

The state plants them and they don't know how to act being in the wild for the first time so they get close to my buildings because that's what they know for the first year and eat grain along the ditch that blows out of trucks, then lazy "hunters" drive around and shoot them from their pickups. I see more of that than I do people getting out and walking. Just saying, no you can't hunt because I have livestock in my fields laying in the tall grass or in the trees and don't need them peppered with lead. Makes my place basically unhuntable. I'm not a farmer, they're the ones who don't get out. Cory if you can rope them then why would you shoot them!  just grab em by the head and spin them round like their at a kids birthday party and they're done!

I happen to be a champion pheasant roper. I went to the very prestigious NWPRA (Northwest Pheasant Roping Academy) on a full ride right out of high school. I don't like to come off as a braggart but, I'm a pretty big deal in the pheasant roping world. I have also logged some championship bolo ties from competing in the IGRA (International Grasshopper Roping Arena) but that is a whole other story.
   

[DIron]

I get it and live on both sides of the problem.

I only wish farming wasn't as efficient as it now is.
Back before every eyebrow in every field was farmed or sprayed there was some real dandy bird hunting.

Truth

[MR5x5]

I get it and live on both sides of the problem.

I only wish farming wasn't as efficient as it now is.
Back before every eyebrow in every field was farmed or sprayed there was some real dandy bird hunting.

Truth

Not to start an argument, but there is more good wild pheasant habitat out there than you can shake a stick at.  I agree that the Basin is a cluster - but the rest of classic pheasant area in the state are doing fine.

[buglebuster]

My buddy and I both limited out opening day over east. Lots of birds around this year!

[MR5x5]

My buddy and I both limited out opening day over east. Lots of birds around this year!

 

...and agree with you.  And not just isolated pockets.

[MR5x5]

Birds from this past Saturday.  Sunday was a bust.  Blowing 30 with sideways snow...

[Odell]

Got out for my first time since moving to Oregon. Me and my buddy limited on the first drive we did, hunting a small cattail chocked creek that cuts through a stubble field. Dog put up 15-20 roosters in an hour. Seemed like great numbers to me but I’m new to this neck of the woods.




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[MR5x5]

Got out for my first time since moving to Oregon. Me and my buddy limited on the first drive we did, hunting a small cattail chocked creek that cuts through a stubble field. Dog put up 15-20 roosters in an hour. Seemed like great numbers to me but I’m new to this neck of the woods.




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That's what I'm talking about.  Stack'n em like cord wood!

Man that's an ugly dog.  I sure miss mine....

[LDennis24]

Is that a Griffon? I know a guy who has one named Doofis! He looks the part too! Reminds me of the ole sheriff dog on the cartoons! Lol What a character! There's a guy in Cheney who raised them last I knew. He lives on Lance Hill road.

[Odell]

Is that a Griffon? I know a guy who has one named Doofis! He looks the part too! Reminds me of the ole sheriff dog on the cartoons! Lol What a character! There's a guy in Cheney who raised them last I knew. He lives on Lance Hill road.

In my photo that is my buddys dog Pepper, she is a german wirehair. A delight to hunt over and hope I get many more trips with her. I'm picking up a pudelpointer this week. Haven't had a puppy in a while so lots to learn and relearn

[Oldpirate]

Anyone hunt the LT Murray above Selah? A lot of it burned last summer, headed to Yakima wondered if it would be worth a look

[CSherwood]

Birds from this past Saturday.  Sunday was a bust.  Blowing 30 with sideways snow...

Now there's some great memories!  What a haul.

[wildweeds]

Yeah my fields full of them! No you can't hunt! I even have the State Patrol monitoring my property from all the road hunters popping shots off... It's irritating

LDennis, I heard something disturbing from my Buddy in Ritzville last week, he used to work for Harders, ( his brother did too for 25 years). Rick told me the Hudderites bought tge Escure place , is that true?

[Oldpirate]

Yeah their not too popular in Montana

[deereman]

The Spokane Hutterites got the BLM grazing lease from November-April??. The Barr ranch was sold a couple years ago and they held the Escure lease before the Hutterites.
I tried to get the lease but came up short to the colony.

[wildweeds]

The Spokane Hutterites got the BLM grazing lease from November-April??. The Barr ranch was sold a couple years ago and they held the Escure lease before the Hutterites.
I tried to get the lease but came up short to the colony.

Thanks the lease makes more sense, it was communicated to me that it was bought , lock stock and Barrell.

[LDennis24]

Sorry just seeing this now. No ,they only have the lease for grazing rights as stated. They are good people and not a problem to deal with in my experience. Deereman where do you live? PM me if you want