When hunting pheasant...

[isonychia]

Bell or no bell on the dog?

[gittrdonebritts]

no bell !

[displaced_texan]

no bell !

Yep!

[ezzy333]

Depends on the cover, if you can see them, no bell, as it gets annoying. But real heavy cover it's a good idea.

Ezzy

[lowerGSP]

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

[displaced_texan]

Depends on the cover, if you can see them, no bell, as it gets annoying. But real heavy cover it's a good idea.

Ezzy

We don't ever put a bell on them running pheasants, even in uncut milo...

[gonehuntin']

If you want to shoot a pheasant, and not just bet on pheasant races, don't bell a dog. The quieter the better.

[buckshot0074]

always have a bell, seen birds everytime I have been out this season

[cutty72]

Point only mode on the pointers, and nothing on the flushers. Works for us.

[Birddog 307]

No Bell ! Get a Garmin.
Birddog 307

[ACooper]

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...

[jcbuttry8]

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.

Joe

[windswept]

The quieter the better when pheasant hunting but...the truth is they can hear you very well bell or no bell anyway.

[isonychia]

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.

[markj]

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

[Birddogz]

Stealth. GPS collars, no bells or beepers.

[Runningdog]

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!!!

[markj]

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!!!

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 site

or end a field, walk to the truck, see dog in ditch on a hard point, flush the bird what we walking for? lol