I once watched fred bear shooting pheasants in mid flight. I was amazed that it could be done. I would like to know if anybody has tried this and if so were you succesful. I dont even know how you would practice to do this.
Found this with the search button
http://tradgang.com/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=084505#000000
and for practice
http://tradgang.com/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=084706;p=2#000025
All you need to practise is some aerial disk. And someone to through them in the air for you. Oh and some flu flu arrows. There are a few videos on utube you can find to see people hunting pheasants with recurves and longbows.
I know i can hit clay pidgeons with a shotgun, highly doubt i could do it with a longbow. But then again you never know till you try. Thanks for the info :bigsmyl:
I have hunted pheasant with a bow. It requires you to shoot at a lot of pheasants. Eventually you will hit one. I used flu flu arrows with bear broadheads. Now I hunt them with a nice Italian side by side 20ga. I get to eat more pheasant that way.
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If you're hunting over dogs, blunts and regular arrows. flu flus slow them down too much imo. They're tougher birds than most people think.
I was invited about 5 years ago to go pheasant hunting with a bunch of gun hunters. They wanted to see if I could get one with my bow. I only had one chance and he lost alot of feathers. We had a blast though.
Fred Bear said that when a pheasant flushes, it will rise up in the air (verticaly). There is a split second before it will take off. That is what he took his shot.
I used to live in quality Pheasant country. That was before I got into Trad archery, I think it would be quite challenging and fun ta boot!! Here in So Cal I would have to drive too far to take a bow.
About 5 weeks ago my 2 brothers in law and I tried, we put up 9 pheasants barely hit 2 and didn't down any. A great time was had by the 3 of us and the other 5 people who came to laugh at us.
I tried it years ago when I lived in Illinios. We had a cornfield right behind the house. I managed to get off a few shots but never seemed to get the timming right. Had some flu-flus from Anderson archery in Mi. It was great fun but arrows can vanish so take plenty of arrows.
My 2 friends Jason Turley,Jack Whitmire & myself are going to do this for the 1st time ever this winter. Jason & I had the idea of letting softball sized, helium filled ballons loose @ about what appears to be 20 yds as some ouf our practice. Would this be a good way to practice, or just buy the aerial disks & start flinging? Thanks.