Rob, it's sad you aren't more hip to this considering where you're from.
As I pointed out, this isn't wild bird hunting. It's a canned commercial operation. Look at the parking space. And that pheasant is tiny.

But more importantly, hunting is not pulling the trigger. That's shooting. The vast majority of hunting I've ever done never involved the gun going bang.

I must admit...I've enjoyed the "hunting" more the the "shooting" for some time now. The dogs have just as much fun either way.

Jack - we've got a number of places around here where they'll hatch the birds in the barn and then turn them out when they're a little older.

They still behave largely like wild birds...you just get to have an extended season.


KAA

I've shot preserve birds.
It's a distant second.

Much like having a picnic table in your campsite.

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no they dont, unless you mean they both fly, and sometimes the preserve birds dont even do that.

the entire " stocked " bird hunting is what makes SD such a disappointment for me. the birds are nothing like wild birds, and they mix with wild birds and have diluted or " dumbed down " the genetic make up of the wild bird population.

all this so someone can " shoot " more or extend a season. i would much prefer a day in the field with one awesome track or flush on a wild bird than shooting a limit.

it had nothing to do with how the photo was staged or composed. with that i have no problem.

its the parking space in the back, and the tiny bird. plus the bell is the wrong size.

same thing when guys take photos with hens. its a dead give away that someone went out on a dennis the menace hunt.

Wild birds are wary, sneaky bastards. They also seem to have more armour plating for some reason.

Maybe that's why they taste better.

.54 caliber muzzleloading double rifle. With a Scout scope.

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Stu

Preserve birds are to wild birds as farmed Atlantic salmon are to wild Pacific sockeye salmon. Any way you slice it, they aren't the same thing.

My brother and I had a member ship at a local hunt club in Illinois. If you wanted to hunt pheasant, there wasn't much of a choice. I remember once when a bird jumped. I was shocked at how big the fucking thing was. I had a direct hit with the bird at short range. There was a massive cloud of feathers from the impact. The bird kept on flying like nothing happened. I took another shot with another direct hit. That shot had more of an impact on the bird,but it still kept on flying, but fell to the ground eventually.

Later on when we cleaned the bird, this freak of nature had a 3/4" layer of fat under the skin that was acting as armor plating. That kind of ruined it for me.

I perceive that to some people hunting is about the pursuit or the methods employed that present the best or most frequent opportunity to find what they are perusing. To the rest of the world hunting = weapon+dead animal.

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-Rob
1999 Discovery 1

Staged is staged to create a perception of reality. Staged shots are advertising. If you don't see a product obviously for sale in a staged shot, then the product being advertised is the photographer.

Pics of a Bike, Propped Up on Something, are the same. They are created to say, "here is my bike, shined up and looking awesome, so that you can see how awesome I am, even when I have just casually left my Bike, Propped Up on Something."

You really can't tell the difference, can you.

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Stu

At least he took the time to make a good spare tire mount and also make sure the seats all match. And it was also smart of him to photograph it on a bright, sunny day so you won't realize that when it rains on this piece of shit you get wet.

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© Blue
2004 D2

What a shit-kicker truck.

That 4x4 Off-Road sticker on the rear is hilarious as well. You see this all the time. Dodge has it. Nissan has it. Ford has it. Toyota has it. I'm sure other companies have it as well.

They call this branding. Like other branding attempts, this is a fail. There's a lot of stupid Land Rover shit out there in the Land Rover world, but I have never seen a 4x4 Off-Road sticker on a Land Rover. Why not? Because every vehicle Land Rover makes automatically comes with 4x4 Off-Road capability. It's so basic Land Rover doesn't even brag about it. It would be like Land Rover bragging that its vehicles came with tires or something. That's real branding.

It's like test targets for rifles. Some rifle companies brag how their super sniper tactical one-shot-one-kill edition comes with a test target. Big deal. Each and every Anschutz rifle down to the lowly Woodchucker that is made for little kids comes with a test target.

If you want real branding, branding that lasts, it takes more than some buzzwords or a sticker to do it.

I love it when branding gets on your nerves. lol

Always makes me think of this old ad.

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-Rob
1999 Discovery 1

WTF is that? Are those stickers or worse....are they holes cut into the body?

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© Blue
2004 D2