Bird Hunting

[eastex56]

Anyone done any bird hunting with your stickbow? Is it legal to hunt quail with a bow? I’ll build some flu-flu’s and give it a try if it’s legal. What type of head would work best? I’ll probably lose a bunch of arrows but it should be fun!!!

[Bisch]

I have dove hunted and pheasant hunted with my longbow. I’m still 0‘fer on the doves, but I have bagged two pheasants. Doves are really tough. I would go pheasant hunting tomorrow with my bow if I could. That was a total blast!!!

Bisch


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[jerp]

I’ve dove hunted with my longbow. Even when they were trying to land in the Mojos at 12 yards I was zero for about 15 - their ability to dodge an arrow is impressive. It was a fun time anyway!

[bowtecmike]

Yes its legal, and its a whole ton of fun. I use the snarrow heads, the small ones, get them from 3 rivers. Good luck, quail are fast, and challenging. We practice by bouncing tennis balls down the driveway and trying to hit them on the rise.

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[bowtecmike]

Dove are a different story, I'm about 0 for several thousand on them.

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[Bisch]

Bird Hunting

“thebowhunters”, Bill, is our resident stickbow dove killer!

Bisch


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[eastex56]

I’ll order some of the snaro heads and give them a try!!

[Phillip Fields]

I had a Tundra Swan hunt scheduled for this year, but the guy I was going to hunt with lost access to the property. I just got word that he had found a new piece of property that looks good. We are setting up a hunt for Jan. 2022.

[SwampGhost]

I’ve teal hunted with my longbow. Got lucky and hit one on my 20th shot that morning lol

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[IowaHunter]

My cousin has a new Deutsch Drahthaar that we plan to hunt pheasant with this fall. I’ll have my Blueridge in hand and he has a “local” longbow. Iowa bird population is on the rise. It will be my first bird hunt in eight years. I can’t wait to get back in the thick of it. Bought a Beretta as a back up.

[Selfbowman]

Just got back from quail hunt and those rascals are still safe.������

[IowaHunter]

Just got back from quail hunt and those rascals are still safe.������

Game management!

[3ChordTruth]

Just got back from quail hunt and those rascals are still safe.������

They would be safe from me too. The Comanche word for “quail” translates in English to “small, noisy bird that tastes good but that never flies in straight line”. OK, I made that up, but considering my archery marksmanship I’ll be carrying my 20 gauge and not my longbow when going after Mr. Bob.

[Chunky]

Killing birds with a bow is not all that difficult and I have killed many different kinds, as long as you get them before they are flying :-) I have hit a couple of pheasants coming off the ground (we used to do a group hunt here) and I have shot many doves, but they had just taken wing. You shoot 8 or 10 inches above and in front of the them and they fly into the arrow. I have never brought down one just flying by, pass shooting. I can tell you that if you go after pheasants, ducks, geese, are other larger birds you need broadheads. You wont kill/knock them down with blunts or snares, unless you get really lucky.

[Draco]

I've killed a lot of quail on the ground as well as dove on the ground or, like Chunky said, just coming up off the ground. I shot and hit solid 16 blue quail before I killed the first one. They are really tough. The best head is not the snaro, it's too heavy and grabs a lot of air. I like the smaller size of the guillotine. It will put those blues right dowm.