Triple on Pheasants?

[ORCA_SIX]

Has anyone ever shot a triple of roosters single handily in Eastern WA? Has to be on the same point or flush. Obviously guys with O/U's, S/S's and Single shots are probably ruled out. But, my grandfather used to shoot a single shot ejector, and carry two rounds between his fingers on the fore-grip and could load that thing with the quickness. If you have done it elsewhere, ND, SD, etc., explain?

[BIGINNER]

i have,  and it was also my first time ever hunting birds, and my first flush.  took all 3 down.  recovered only 2.  didn't have a dog with me  (i know stupid)

also as a side note. i learned my lesson about shooting multipul birds.  never tried going for more than 1 at a time after that,  and don't shoot at another till i recover the first

[dontgetcrabs]

also as a side note. i learned my lesson about shooting multipul birds.  never tried going for more than 1 at a time after that,  and don't shoot at another till i recover the first

THAT'S GREAT ADVICE.    

[BIGINNER]

also as a side note. i learned my lesson about shooting multipul birds.  never tried going for more than 1 at a time after that,  and don't shoot at another till i recover the first

THAT'S GREAT ADVICE.   

   hey man.  hows it going?   

[groundhog]

Only once and its was about 35 years ago. I will never forget it though because I was fifteen and my dad and several of his friends watch (from just out of range) as I dropped all three Roosters with my model 12, 20 gauge. Our lab pointed the first bird and the other two flushed from my first shot. It doesn't get any better for a fifteen year old kid.

[ORCA_SIX]

i have,  and it was also my first time ever hunting birds, and my first flush.  took all 3 down.  recovered only 2.  didn't have a dog with me  (i know stupid)

also as a side note. i learned my lesson about shooting multipul birds.  never tried going for more than 1 at a time after that,  and don't shoot at another till i recover the first

Your like a Buddha, giving out sage advice.  Very true, I have made that mistake once or twice of thinking man "I just smacked the hell out of that bird, on to the next, wait a minute, that other bird is still flying!"

That is incredible it happened on your first outing. I have yet to have one of those moments in Eastern WA.  A few in Western WA at plant sites, but never on wild birds. Pretty cool and lucky you.

[Shannon]

I had one in Montana two years ago. It was my one and only triple while upland hunting. I had two Roosters get up together and then one get up at the first shot. That why I carry my Extrema II instead of my doubles most of the time. A little heavy but worth packing for that third shot.

[bobcat]

Yes, opening morning in SE Wa. about 10 years ago, only had been legal shooting time for about 15 minutes. I was by myself, with my German Shorthair. He went on point, I walked in and a rooster got up at about 25 yards. I shot it and about 50 more got up. I dumped two more. This was right in a freshly harvested wheat field. And, all wild birds. It all happened so fast it was three shots about as fast as I could pull the trigger. This was with my Remington 1100 20 gauge that I got for Christmas when I was 11. I sure wish there would have been a witness to that. My brother had dropped me off and I still had a mile and a half to walk back to the road where he was picking me up.

[Gringo31]

Was on the long college plan in Pullman, (six years) but I've trippled several times.  Enough to where I don't remember all the details but that it's fun to talk a lot of crap to the guys your hunting with but REALLY sucks cuz your done for the day.  You kinda feel robbed.  Granted, some of the ones I call a tripple were within as long as a 15 second period.  Now that I think about it, can't say I've ever had 3 shots at roosters all jumping up at the same time and killing 3 birds. 

[CP]

I’ve gotten zero pheasants in three shots before.

Last year on the west side opener at 8:02am I flushed a rooster, I dropped him and on the sound of the gunshot another flushed to my right, I dropped him and on the sound of that another flushed, I swung on him but 2’s the limit so I held that shot.

Kind of sucks to get 2 minutes of hunting but my young lab got his first 2 retrieves.

No, never 3, not that I remember anyway.

[BLR 243]

3 in 3 shots with my sxs 20 ga. I learned to reload fast after 2 shots.

[Wacenturion]

After shooting two roosters within 10 minutes behind my Red Setter back in 1974 along the upper shoreline of Moses Lake, my buddy said hey...how bout letting me shoot one.  He packed a 12 gauge Winchester model 59....me a Remington 11-48 in 28 gauge bored skeet.  My range was only out to about 25 yards max.  I told him when he gets a real upland gun he wouldn't have to wait on me.

Feeling sorry for him, I said give me that cannon, and here use my little 28.  About 100 yards up the lake shore by a couple small willows, my setter locks up again....friend walks in and within 20 seconds or so, three roosters flush one at a time.  Yep he swings on each and each folds, and he triples.   

One rooster ends up in the lake...the middle one, and numbers one and three are on shore.  My setter promptly retrieves both that ended up on land.  Would not go for a swim for the third.  Buddy strips down and retrieves it himself, moaning continually about my setter being a woos. 

Another 70 yards or so up the lake, I finish by shooting my third bird over a beautiful point.  Bird lands in lake.....setter jumps in and retrieves.  Friend looking on with this dumbfounded look on his face I'll never forget, and complaining about the lack of water retrieve on his bird.  Told him he only does that for special people like me, and he knew I didn't shoot that bird.  A fun day we always remembered.

My friend tried buying that little 11-48 off me for the next several years....lol.

Oh...and I had several triples with it on pheasants, quail and huns over the years.

[Curly]

funny story, centurion.     Smart dog too.

[ORCA_SIX]

Cool stories from everyone. I think that would have been funny watching that guy water retrieve his own bird.

[Justin7mm]

here are a few pics of my son, the first is when he was 4, and the second is when he was 5. I never do this good on my own, so apparently short walks and lots of noisemaking are the key ingredients to shooting lots of nice roosters.  I figure that i get a 3 bird handicap just for taking him, so this is much better than any standard triple.

[bobcat]

Congrats on the great hunts with your son, but are you saying you actually got triples with each of those pictures, or did you just get a limit of pheasants in a day of hunting?

[dscubame]

oh my! 

[bobcat]

oh my! 

Not sure what you mean by that, but I re-read Justin's post and I missed the part at the end where he said it was better than a "standard triple". So I guess that answers my question. I just was hoping for more elaboration if he truly got triples with his young son on two separate occasions. Either way, that's a great accomplishment to be able to take a limit of roosters with a young child in tow.

[Justin7mm]

one was a straight up triple and the other was 2 birds and then a pretty quick 3rd bird.....Take my son hunting some time and you'll see that even a single bird all weekend is a wild success. I'll recap the hunts for yall...

The first picture i'm posting goes with the pic where he is 4 (the first one from the earlier post) .There was 4 of us hunting and the day was mostly me watching everybody else shoot, or shoot at birds... we jumped some birds in a field and saw a few go into a a good size ditch. I drove around to the other side with my son while a few of the guys walked the ditch. I had been playing taxi for most of the day for everyone else. Anyway...turns out there was more than a couple birds in this ditch...I had one of my dogs with me that i let out and was holding on to since the walkers weren't close yet, but my son was throwing rocks and making noise and getting into some kind of mischief and i let the dog go and she ran into my end of the ditch and all hell broke loose...birds flying all over and falling out of the sky...I don't know if the kid or the dog retrieved more of them but it was pretty cool. 

The second Picture goes with the second pic from the first post... this is the first two birds of three shown in that pic (this last year)....this time just me and him, got a slow start due to fog but walked down the edge of a corn field and was planning on heading to some thick cover that borders the field where i figured the birds would be. He was excited because it was saturday morning and he was asking tons of question so i asked him to be quiet and he continued talking in a slightly lower voice...The birds are hard to get out of the thick cover, and almost impossible to get out of the standing corn, but on this day we caught them traveling in between and they all panicked. I was scarcely paying attention due to my sons constant babling and because we were also heading somewhere else when a rooster appeared in front of me. I shot him and as soon as the gun fired another took off, folded him too. There was a long drawn out flush of 15 or 20 birds all down the side of the field for 150 yards or so, but wasn't close enough to most of them... He retrieved one, the dog retrieved one, I snapped this pic with my phone, and we finished our day with a bird that was in the corn just up around the corner.

[bobcat]

Wow! Now I just need to know WHERE you were hunting!