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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: NOMADIC PIRATE on June 08, 2010, 06:38:52 am

Title: More mountain birds hunting
Post by: NOMADIC PIRATE 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.

(http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d124/NorthShoreLB/Harvests/004-6-1.jpg)

(http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d124/NorthShoreLB/Harvests/005-5-3.jpg)

(http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d124/NorthShoreLB/Harvests/010-5-1.jpg)

(http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d124/NorthShoreLB/Harvests/008-3-2.jpg)

(http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d124/NorthShoreLB/Harvests/011-4-1.jpg)

Title: Re: More mountain birds hunting
Post by: cracker on June 08, 2010, 08:34:43 am

Wow Manny you could fletch some big ol arrows with those tail feathers.

Title: Re: More mountain birds hunting
Post by: mullet on June 08, 2010, 08:47:22 am

Are you gonna have it mounted? ;) Nice shot.

Title: Re: More mountain birds hunting
Post by: Parnell 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?

Title: Re: More mountain birds hunting
Post by: hammertime on June 08, 2010, 11:43:43 am

Great shot and great pics,next challenge stick one with bow and arrow.Hammertime

Title: Re: More mountain birds hunting
Post by: NOMADIC PIRATE on June 08, 2010, 02:52:18 pm

Quote from: hammertime on June 08, 2010, 11:43:43 am

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

Title: Re: More mountain birds hunting
Post by: lowell 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 ;)

Title: Re: More mountain birds hunting
Post by: NOMADIC PIRATE 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

Title: Re: More mountain birds hunting
Post by: mullet 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.

Title: Re: More mountain birds hunting
Post by: NOMADIC PIRATE 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

Title: Re: More mountain birds hunting
Post by: nick_the_tinkerer on June 27, 2010, 08:49:45 pm

ok i have to ask.

what did you use? any better pics?

Title: Re: More mountain birds hunting
Post by: JW_Halverson 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.