When hunting pheasant...
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Re: When hunting pheasant...
Yep!gittrdonebritts wrote:no bell !
I have English Pointers because they don't ever grow up either...
Re: When hunting pheasant...
Depends on the cover, if you can see them, no bell, as it gets annoying. But real heavy cover it's a good idea.
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I hunt with a buddy who uses a bell. Not sure where he got this bell but its the loudest bell i have ever heard. Very annoying and cant hear anything but it. I use a beeper with point only mode unless she is in a thick area and put it to locate mode. I think its personal preference but the bell annoys me but would not argue if someone said the beeper was annoying as well. One day i will buy a GPS and hopefully avoid both. Just waiting to see what tritronics and Garmin come up with
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We don't ever put a bell on them running pheasants, even in uncut milo...ezzy333 wrote:Depends on the cover, if you can see them, no bell, as it gets annoying. But real heavy cover it's a good idea.
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Re: When hunting pheasant...
If you want to shoot a pheasant, and not just bet on pheasant races, don't bell a dog. The quieter the better.
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Re: When hunting pheasant...
always have a bell, seen birds everytime I have been out this season
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Point only mode on the pointers, and nothing on the flushers. Works for us.
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No Bell ! Get a Garmin.
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Re: When hunting pheasant...
For me no bells no beepers... as I am working on an ambush. Were I hunt we don't have thousands of birds, the birds we do have are spooky...
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During the youth hunt, ran behind a GSP and a britt wearing bells and beepers. Had no problem dropping birds, and it was 5 boys under 13. The bell and beeper are cheeper than the garmin.
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The quieter the better when pheasant hunting but...the truth is they can hear you very well bell or no bell anyway.
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Re: When hunting pheasant...
Ok sounds good, I have a garmin astro, but usually use the bell in grouse cover because it is real time and the grouse don't seem to give notice to the bell (and if they do, i have no idea!) Looks like no bell for pheasant, which after reading up on the hunt, seems like a better way to go.
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I vote bells on the birds but in my hunting I have found opening day you can do almost anything and still find a bird. But after they have been hunted, silence in the field is a must. IMHO any noise like slamming a door, yelling at the dogs or whatever will push the wiley birds away from you. Good luck
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Stealth. GPS collars, no bells or beepers.
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Bells, beepers, whistles, yelling, slamming doors, but yet no one talks about the report of a shotgun you shoot one bird and for a mile the birds hear it but yet at the end of a field there still is a bird that's holds tight! IMHO it seems that on any given day these birds amaze even the veterans of this sport!!!
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You got that right, I have come to the end of a row crop field to a dirt field. Walk 10 feet out and a bird flushes up. Now how did I miss that one out in plain siteBells, beepers, whistles, yelling, slamming doors, but yet no one talks about the report of a shotgun you shoot one bird and for a mile the birds hear it but yet at the end of a field there still is a bird that's holds tight! IMHO it seems that on any given day these birds amaze even the veterans of this sport!!!
or end a field, walk to the truck, see dog in ditch on a hard point, flush the bird what we walking for? lol
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