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Offline JPSaxMan

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« on: February 24, 2005, 12:22:04 PM »
How is this possible? I watched a show once where they were doing this, and I don't think they got one bird. Why waste the arrows? I don't get it. I might be missing something tho... :D
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« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2005, 02:18:11 PM »
I've never bowhunted specifically for upland game, but I've been in my treestand (deer hunting) and had some rooster pheasants walk by.  Never shot at any of them because I didn't want to risk ruining my deer hunt.  I could have killed quite a few pheasants this way.   So, maybe that's what they meant???
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« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2005, 04:54:45 PM »
No, no. I mean actually flushing birds, then arrowing them. I watched a show where three guys tried it. Didn't look like something productive. More of a waste of time :?
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« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2005, 07:14:10 PM »
Well for one thing all of the times I've seen it done was with traditional tackle. No compounds. Once you get to a certain level of skill it's not all that hard to progress to the next level. When I was a member of the Traditional Bowhunters of Fla. they used to have two yearly shoots. At one of them there would always be a bunch of guys shooting foam disks thrown into the air. If you use flu flu arrows they don't go as far and are easier to recover.
  I one saw a video where Ben Perason went duck hunting with a recurve. Pretty impressive.

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« Reply #4 on: March 04, 2005, 12:47:46 AM »
Yea I'd be impressed to. Yea these guys were hunting with compounds. Looked like Mathews (of course) :roll: .  :D
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« Reply #5 on: March 09, 2005, 01:43:57 AM »
I've tried pheasants with a recurve. A ton of fun. Didn't kill any but would certainly do it again. A good bird dog would really be an asset. We did a game farm. I couldn't imagine doing it with wild birds. I would give it a try though. Good luck!!!!
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« Reply #6 on: May 21, 2005, 12:24:29 AM »
I saw a show where they were using bows to shoot at flushed pheasant. They never got a bird, but it looked like fun. Also just saw a Tred Barta show where he was shooting at geese over decoys with a bow.
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