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Other Hunting => Upland Birds => Topic started by: Dhoey07 on October 23, 2012, 08:23:47 AM

Title: Had a good opener!
Post by: Dhoey07 on October 23, 2012, 08:23:47 AM: First ever limit of pheasants on the opener for me and my dad :tup: Including a black pheasant. Is this a melanistic pheasant? :dunno:
Title: Re: Had a good opener!
Post by: Whitpirate on October 23, 2012, 08:49:09 AM: Fine brace of birds. I got a solo without dog on my way out deer hunting when I saw him tracking in the weeds and went back for the shotgun.
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Post by: Stilly bay on October 23, 2012, 09:34:50 AM: right on, those are some chunky birds!
Quote from: fckfords07 on October 23, 2012, 08:23:47 AM
Including a black pheasant. Is this a melanistic pheasant? :dunno:
your right, its a melanistic or a melanistic X. every now and then they toss one out at the release sites to give people something to talk about.
Title: Re: Had a good opener!
Post by: scout/sniper on October 23, 2012, 09:39:47 AM: Congrats! What a great day for you.
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Post by: thinkingman on October 23, 2012, 03:25:26 PM: ....And a shed?
Darn good day!
Beautiful bird.
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Post by: T-Bone on October 27, 2012, 06:24:06 AM: Congratulations on your Opener success; your melanistic pheasant is actually a recognized breed of pheasant. I had a couple of roosters roaming around in front of my house in Rockford last year. I have a couple of put & take pheasant operations not too far from town and I suspect your rooster came from such a place. These birds adapt to the wild quickly:

http://www.pheasant.com/Birds/AboutOurBirds/MelanisticMutant/tabid/190/Default.aspx (http://www.pheasant.com/Birds/AboutOurBirds/MelanisticMutant/tabid/190/Default.aspx)

Tom