Does he fly after the birds when they flush?

 

I have 2 labs that love to flush pheasants

 

No they point and chase after they drop

 

I’ve shot a lot of grouse with trad gear and I’m a firm believer in broadheads.

 

Broadheads, not nice ones. I have shot pigeons and pheasants with field points. You have to finish them.

 

Judo points

 

2-1/2” mechanical. 600 grains. 80lbs.

These are minimums of course.

 

These look good. Zwickey Judo ”Kondor”.

 

I did all my pheasant hunting with Judo Points back in the '70s. The only problem I ever had was with my friend shooting my flu flus out of the air with their shotguns. ( True Story ).

You don't need a broadhead to kill a pheasant. Enjoy your day in the field and good luck.

 

Judo points come recommended by folks who never actually hit a flying pheasant with an judo tipped arrow. Just use field points.

 

Don’t use broadheads with your dogs. Blunts or judos.

 

With my heavier bows steel blunts took them down, but I often had to run them down. The 3 Rivers hex heads on solid body hits are a done deal. I do not use flu-flus. Standard cedar with 5" feathers. Yep, when I miss, more often than not the arrow is gone. My first bow pheasants back in the 60s were with free Hi-Presicions and bludgeons. I still have a dozen of them, six are on arrows for my 43 pound Big 5, got one with that rig a couple of years ago, ground swatted him while hunting deer in a switch grass creek bottom, I even found the arrow. The first pheasants I jump for the year is a comedy if it is much of a cross shot, I am first way back and then way ahead.

 

Do not use Judo points for pheasants. Do not use broadheads with dogs. Field points work fine. Dog will help trap bird for dispatch. If hunting in a group agree on type and feather count on flu-flu's helps arrow retrieval.

 

I have seen these advertised. If I had somewhere to bird hunt, I would try one.

Snaro Screw-In Bird Point

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What 3finger said. Field points or hex blunts. I’ve seen judos and snaros bounce off pheasants, especially when combined with flu-flus.

 

Seems like it could injure a dog if they pick up a bird with a broadhead in it. Field point with flu flu arrows?

 

Use a SHARP broadhead for pheasants. Their feathers will stop a dull one, and it might just wound him, not what you want. The arrow should stick out the other side to impair the wings as well as do internal damage.

 

how good of a shot do you have to be to hit a pheasant?

 

I shoot at a few every year. Good question, but the answer is almost impossible to explain, since there are so many variables. When hunting wild pheasants, every shooting opportunity is different. One must be able to adjust and move with that situation without much thought. The standard approach that many use shooting targets will not often apply. Shooting birds is more akin to an expert tennis player going a for a fast passing ball and then using a running back hand with a top spine puts the ball right where he wants it on the opposing court. A heavy pistol grip recurve that is normally shot with a straight bow arm and a vertical bow will be a clumsy tool to bird hunting. Target archery and small game hunting can be two completely different sports.

 

Very

 

And yes, broadheads are the way to go unless a dog is involved.

 

In Iowa the big wigs of the DNR advocate using blunts for turkeys, 9/16" or larger. I talked to a fellow that up to that point killed three. Two with a type of HTM with a concave front and a nickel glued to it and the other with a bludgeon on a cedar arrow with a tip weight cone on the arrow. He said that a direct body hit turns the insides to mush and the birds 'went down hard'. He was shooting a 65 pound recurve with a 27" draw. I have been hunting pheasants with various bows since I was 12 years old, nearly 60 years, the first bow was a sinew back ash billet made from a strip of wood that was lightening cured and dried from our neighbors ash tree. I used those free Hi Precision 3 blade broad heads with that bow, but since most have been taken with various blunts and a couple with bludgeons. Even a sharp three blade broad head is no guarantee that a cock will not run and hide in cover when hit. I am convinced that a blunt or bludgeon is far more deadly on rabbits than a broadhead. Once with a squirrel, I pinned him to a tree with one of those original worthless Wasp broad heads. The squirrel kicked and squirmed and then hung lifeless. I hung my longbow on a branch and unscrewed the 2019 from the head. The squirrel fell to the ground, jumped up and shot up a large tree, never to be seen again, Wasp head is still in that tree. Two days later while hunting with a 64@26 longbow, I took a shot at a squirrel way up high in the branches with a 2018 pushing anHTM with a blunt in side. I hit the moving squirrel, he was stone dead before he hit the ground. A flying pheasant will always have a varied impact absorption status, depending on direction and speed, but on the whole, I do not think they are as tough as some claim. A less than direct hit makes the bird seem tougher than he really is.