Post by: ORCA_SIX on April 21, 2011, 09:54:23 AM
Post by: BIGINNER on April 21, 2011, 09:58:57 AM
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
Post by: dontgetcrabs on April 21, 2011, 10:28:07 AM
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. :hello:
Post by: BIGINNER on April 21, 2011, 10:34:25 AM
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. :hello:
:hello: hey man. hows it going? :hello:
Post by: groundhog on April 21, 2011, 10:47:23 AM
Post by: ORCA_SIX on April 21, 2011, 10:48:42 AM
i have, and it was also my first time ever hunting birds, and my first flush. took all 3 down. recovered only 2. :bash: 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. :tung: 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.
Post by: Shannon on April 21, 2011, 09:23:41 PM
Post by: bobcat on April 21, 2011, 09:36:43 PM
Post by: Gringo31 on April 21, 2011, 09:47:07 PM
Post by: CP on April 22, 2011, 07:23:00 AM
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.
Post by: BLR 243 on April 22, 2011, 07:35:11 AM
Post by: Wacenturion on April 24, 2011, 02:07:12 PM
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.
Post by: Curly on April 24, 2011, 02:11:20 PM
Post by: ORCA_SIX on April 24, 2011, 10:09:03 PM
Post by: Justin7mm on April 26, 2011, 06:57:06 PM
Post by: bobcat on April 26, 2011, 06:59:44 PM
Post by: dscubame on April 26, 2011, 07:03:03 PM
Post by: bobcat on April 26, 2011, 07:15:30 PM
oh my! :dunno:
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.
Post by: Justin7mm on April 26, 2011, 07:44:47 PM
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.
Post by: bobcat on April 26, 2011, 07:48:37 PM