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Offline NOMADIC PIRATE

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More mountain birds hunting
« on: June 08, 2010, 06:38:52 am »
This is particuraly sweet for me since this birds made a complete fool out of me for a decade.

after sitting in ambush for 2 hours this bird gave me a glimpse of his neck, the 30 some yards shot was just perfect and the bird never took a step.









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Re: More mountain birds hunting
« Reply #1 on: June 08, 2010, 08:34:43 am »
Wow Manny you could fletch some big ol arrows with those tail feathers.
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Re: More mountain birds hunting
« Reply #2 on: June 08, 2010, 08:47:22 am »
Are you gonna have it mounted? ;) Nice shot.
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Re: More mountain birds hunting
« Reply #3 on: June 08, 2010, 09:16:44 am »
Peacock?  How are they to eat?
Congratulations on the bird - those photos are awesome, also!  Did you hike up onto that ridge-line?
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Re: More mountain birds hunting
« Reply #4 on: June 08, 2010, 11:43:43 am »
Great shot and great pics,next challenge stick one with bow and arrow.Hammertime

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Re: More mountain birds hunting
« Reply #5 on: June 08, 2010, 02:52:18 pm »
Great shot and great pics,next challenge stick one with bow and arrow.Hammertime



Being trying for a decade, and if I had a bow this one would have been gone too, real, real hard.

Parnell, taste better than store brought turkey, I biked up the mountain and hiked back down the ridge for an hour.

thanks Eddie, ...lots of fletching from this boy :)

Yeah cracker got lots of feathers out of this one
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Re: More mountain birds hunting
« Reply #6 on: June 08, 2010, 03:10:43 pm »
Very cool... had some tame ones here for many years but never thought about hunting them. ;D

  Do you have turkeys there or is the peacock as close as you get to an turkey??

 The one we had was named Argus...... I think it had to do with the many eyes on the tail.  Hard to hunt????...maybe those tail eyes are not just for show!! :o ;)
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Re: More mountain birds hunting
« Reply #7 on: June 08, 2010, 04:05:26 pm »
like anything else, tame goats, turkeys, pigs even deer once in the wild it's a total different cup of tea ;D
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Re: More mountain birds hunting
« Reply #8 on: June 08, 2010, 09:20:26 pm »
 There is wild turkeys in Hawaii, Rio's. I have a friend that get's at least one there every year. Turkey's are in every state now, except Alaska.
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Re: More mountain birds hunting
« Reply #9 on: June 08, 2010, 10:01:12 pm »
We have some turkeys on this island, but can't hunt them, the Big island has lots
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Re: More mountain birds hunting
« Reply #10 on: June 27, 2010, 08:49:45 pm »
ok i have to ask.

what did you use? any better pics?

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Re: More mountain birds hunting
« Reply #11 on: June 28, 2010, 11:15:29 pm »
Manny, could you do an article/thread on how to hunt peacock?  I would especially like to know how to call the males into range during their mating season. 

I've eaten pcock before, reminded me of a big pheasant. 
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