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Good day chasing NH Pheasants
Unread 10-18-2024, 06:03 PM   #1
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Default Good day chasing NH Pheasants

Fun day with sidekick Cody chasing New Hampshire Pheasants. No woodcock pointed to my surprise. 10 or 12 Pheasant points and my two bird limit shot. My go to bird guns. My dad’s 1912 16 Ga Flues, factory choked cyl/full 26 “ barrels and weighs 5.9 lbs. and my late 20 Ga NID choked f/m. And a tired Cody ��
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What a Happy Boy - I Love Him.





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Very nice Steve
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Looks like your buddy enjoyed the hunt. Nice going -- both of you!
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Nice choice of bird guns Steve.
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We were up in Pittsburg hiking, shooting clays, and visiting friends WE before last. Flushed some grouse and a few pheasants but no woodcocks. Snow flurries and some 20 degree mornings. Leaves long gone but pretty country around Lake Francis and the four Connecticuts.
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We were up in Pittsburg hiking, shooting clays, and visiting friends WE before last. Flushed some grouse and a few pheasants but no woodcocks. Snow flurries and some 20 degree mornings. Leaves long gone but pretty country around Lake Francis and the four Connecticuts.

Wait a minute… Pheasants in Pittsburgh, NH…??





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Yes Dean, Pheasants in Pittsburg. There are two stocking sites in Pittsburg. They get stocked just before the October 1st opening day, and then on two more times the following two Thursdays. I was 15 miles up Indian Stream Road one October just about 5 miles from the Canadian Border when I drove up on a Cock Pheasant standing in the road. Up in that country he had enough predators wanting him so I let him walk off into the brush. I do not imagine he made it to winter I was on the the NH Fish and Game Commission when we voted to expand the stocking of Pheasants to Northern NH. We had received lots of complaints from residents because the had to travel south for the opportunity to hunt pheasants.
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Thanks Steve. I don't believe however, that pheasants were ever indigenous to that area of NH due to the severe climate and I'll bet those stocked birds have an extremely doubtful chance of seeing springtime. It's "put and take" hunting I believe.

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Dean all the Pheasant hunting in NH is strictly put and take. They were never a native bird. That being said I have been up to Pittsburg snowmobiling in the dead of winter and have seen a few pheasants under bird feeders.
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