Wear your track shoes and make sure you and your dog break at the shot because you need to get to the bird quickly as pheasants are often ready to run if you don't hit them hard. I agree with Ken, and if you are disciplined, you can use your VH effectively. Not too many folks can withstand the excitement of Mr. Rooster rising, cackle or no cackle, and often shoot first and step off distances later.
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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