Jake's First Pheasant Hunt
Well, it was more like a little training session on some live birds. But, Jake did find and flush this pheasant and my friend was able to shoot the hen before she got away. It was the first hunt of the season on our local pheasant hunting preserve. It has been great to have a quality hunting club only mintutes away from our home in the country. We just load the dogs and our hunting gear up onto our ATVs and head out into the grain fields. Most of the season we will simply work the dogs on birds leftover from the previous weeks paid hunts, the table scraps if you will. Occasionally when we bring friends into town we can set 10-20 pheasants out and have a little more action. The pheasants are a little young still but another week or two and things will be just right. The weather will be cooler and the birds will set and hold better instead of running.