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Post by Boilermaker on Mar 5, 2012 12:53:14 GMT -5
Saw one cross the road once on 231 headed north out of W. Lafayette a few years ago.
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Post by tenring on Mar 5, 2012 13:10:28 GMT -5
From a publication of the Illinois Natural History Survey:Anderson and Stewart believe that if an
excess of barium is adversely affecting
pheasants in poor range, the problem is
complicated by low levels of environmental
calcium. Such a relationship between bar-
iimi and calcium \\ould explain why pheas-
ants occur primarily — but not exclusively
— on recently glaciated ( calcium-rich "i
soils.
In laymen's terms, locate the southern most movement of the Wisconsin Glacier, draw a line depicting this "boundry", and you have an answer. North of that line, pheasants will survive, south of it they won't.
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Post by throbak on Mar 5, 2012 13:12:02 GMT -5
None I think it was probably a farm raised escapee from a private hunt release
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2012 12:19:22 GMT -5
I wonder if the one you saw was from the put and take hunts at Crosley FWA. Maybe it went west and ended up in Big Oaks. Or who knows, perhaps it was a wild Pheasant. shot several in Madison co. in the 60,s Saw one on Big Oaks a few years agoalso |
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Post by shooter1 on Mar 19, 2012 20:15:49 GMT -5
Ain't no wild birds that far south that I ever heard of..
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Post by poppshunts on Mar 20, 2012 8:12:51 GMT -5
years ago i was rabbit hunting in Mooristown along the river and my beagle jumped a pheasant , it had a band on it's leg , as i had only flushed pheasant in far northwestern In. i stood there and watched the bird fly away in shock that i had just saw this bird where i was , the band on the leg told me the bird had been released , any pheasant seen in southern In. would not be "wild" , they would be pen raised birds released for put and take hunts.
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Post by duff on Apr 7, 2012 10:07:46 GMT -5
Saw one in Parke County just north of Rockville. Who knows if it was wild or an escapee as there is a put and take farm there but it was probably 10 miles away. I know there are some wild birds in Vermillion Co and North.
Heard some quail on my place the other day and some on my buddy's place last night.
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Post by uplander on Apr 30, 2012 15:37:54 GMT -5
Saint Joseph County, Laporte.
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Post by lefty on Aug 9, 2012 11:40:43 GMT -5
Miami County near Denver. couldn't believe it!
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Post by indyqdog on Aug 9, 2012 20:27:05 GMT -5
Noblesville right off of SR 37 near hazeldell road. super populated area but this one field has em. perfect habitat. seen two in the year.
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Post by duff on Aug 10, 2012 5:12:11 GMT -5
Noblesville right off of SR 37 near hazeldell road. super populated area but this one field has em. perfect habitat. seen two in the year. I grew up near Perkinsville, just up the road on 37 & 13 area. We would kill a few birds every once in a while during rabit hunts. Not sure if they were wild or released but they would always be in just a few wood lots. |
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Post by ActionPoint on Aug 28, 2012 15:16:49 GMT -5
There are lots of counties in the northern part of the state that hold decent populations of birds. I hunt primarily Allen, Kosciusko, Whitley, Noble, and Steuben. Oddly enough, Allen county is my top producer every year for wild pheasant AND quail. There are definitely pockets of birds out there, the hard part is finding them, or in my case stumbling on to them.
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Post by antler on Aug 28, 2012 18:13:43 GMT -5
Unfortunately I hit 2 with my car during July in northern Dekalb. The first time I slammed on the brakes early enough for the rooster to just bounce off my bumper. The second time the hen wasn't as lucky.
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Post by waynecountytrio on Aug 29, 2012 21:25:11 GMT -5
Randolph county on 950s East of us 27.....just east of bloomingport...running through the bean stubble...It was a Rooster...just passed him off as one that maybe someone had possibly raised in the area.>>  ? |
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Post by featherduster on Aug 30, 2012 7:31:17 GMT -5
As published in the November 1961 Outdoor Indiana magazine :
The Indiana pheasant harvest for 1960 was 110,000 birds which was a slight decrease from the 1959 harvest of 114,000 birds.
The Bobwhite harvest was 764,193 birds down from the 1959 harvest of 1,079,355.
WHAT HAPPENED!
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Post by tenring on Aug 30, 2012 12:43:22 GMT -5
Blizzards!
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Post by cedarthicket on Aug 30, 2012 16:42:38 GMT -5
Yup. Blizzards and the rapid increase in population of some four-legged and two-winged predators in the last 30 or 40 years.
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Post by saltydog on Aug 31, 2012 5:29:37 GMT -5
No pheasants in IN. stop looking !!!! LOL
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Post by brushbuck on Nov 10, 2012 8:52:33 GMT -5
benton county  |
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Post by lefty on Jan 15, 2013 11:39:50 GMT -5
Miami County near Denver.
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