GUNS Magazine April 1959

Pride of personal accomplishment adds extra
thrill as young hunter displays a fine trophy.
JUST THINK WHERE YOU'D
GO IF YOU WERE A PHEASANT. GO
THERE, SHOOT LIKE THE
MAN SAYS-AND WATCH THEM FALL!
Think like a pheasant; go where he would go
under given conditions, and you'll find him.
By BERT POPOWSKI
Y OU DON'T NEED A DOG to bag pheasants. At
least, I don't need one ; and you won't either if you,
like the man who found the lost mule, will " jest figger
where a mule (pheasant ) would go (under given conditions)
, and go there."
It's not that I ha ve anything against dogs. I like dogs.
But I just don't like to admit that I have to depend on a
dog to help me win a simple battle of wits against a cock
pheasant. I think I'm as smart as a ringneck ; and I've
pr oved it by bagging pretty consistent limits of the
gaudy immigrants, witho ut dogs, over a long peri od of
years, from all kinds of cover, in Iowa, Ohio , Nebraska,
South Dako ta, Wyoming-wherever I was or could go
when a season beckoned. The money I'v e saved on dog
food I've spent on shotshells that hav e brought me a lot
of sport, and a lot of tasty eating.
For example, there was that stormy da y in Nebraska;