How to flush pheasants?

[Blako]

I'm sitting on a rock with a nice view of 7-10 pheasants 100m away, I press x to whistle about three times and they all waddle off instead of using their wings to flee, am I doing something wrong?

[The One True Git]

I dont know how widespread the issue is but I have to literally run after them, in some cases physically touching them to get them to flush a few seconds later. Obviously not working as intended in my case.

[DopaTrain]

Mmm... Pheasants present an interesting new mechanic. Ive only managed to get one so far. .22 pistol while it was still on the ground. They seem as pheasants do, to sit until you are right on top of them then fly up.

Im going to try walking at them/need zone and as they flush out of the vegetation blasting them with some bird shot.

[GODZILLA]

I also have this problem. And is there a pheasant caller in the shop?

[DopaTrain]

Originally posted by JohnnyShitKnuckles:

I dont know how widespread the issue is but I have to literally run after them, in some cases physically touching them to get them to flush a few seconds later. Obviously not working as intended in my case.

This is in my experience how pheasants behave in reality. They hide until you are virtually on top of them before they flee.

[Blako]

Yes, thats how ive been killing them, they dont even run sometimes so I have to get up in their face and maybe after 10 seconds they decide to try and fly. Why make it so grounded kills are bad if they are this buggy?

[DopaTrain]

Originally posted by Blako:

Yes, thats how ive been killing them, they dont even run sometimes so I have to get up in their face and maybe after 10 seconds they decide to try and fly. Why make it so grounded kills are bad if they are this buggy?

Im not sure that they are buggy. This is how they behave in real life.

[NuCkEnFuTs]

you know you have to flush them out, right? I took a bunch of them yesterday and had them running directly at me and not flying. I think the Little buggers know we need them to take flight. Sure is fun when you run into a flock of them. I use a shotgun seems more effective then the .22 was.

[DopaTrain]

Originally posted by NuCkEnFuTs:

you know you have to flush them out, right? I took a bunch of them yesterday and had them running directly at me and not flying. I think the Little buggers know we need them to take flight. Sure is fun when you run into a flock of them. I use a shotgun seems more effective then the .22 was.

Yeah. I mean in reality pheasants are hunted by a group of beaters flushing them in one direction toward another group of people with shotguns who blast them as they flee.

I guess you could do this in Multiplayer. Would be interesting to see if it worked.

[NuCkEnFuTs]

Originally posted by DopaTrain:

Originally posted by NuCkEnFuTs:

you know you have to flush them out, right? I took a bunch of them yesterday and had them running directly at me and not flying. I think the Little buggers know we need them to take flight. Sure is fun when you run into a flock of them. I use a shotgun seems more effective then the .22 was.

Yeah. I mean in reality pheasants are hunted by a group of beaters flushing them in one direction toward another group of people with shotguns who blast them as they flee.

I guess you could do this in Multiplayer. Would be interesting to see if it worked.

That would be cool if we get good folks together and some fun hunting them.

[VirtuaLiz]

Pheasant know they're bad flyers so if they think they can outrun you they will, the trick is to get close enough that they panic and think their only escape is up. Sneak in nice and close, have your shotgun ready, then run right into them whistling and just start blasting. IRL pheasant hunting usually uses dogs to flush them out, I hope they add that to the bloodhound dlc. But yeah, pheasant are basically birds with rabbit software installed, you gotta remind them to fly as rudely as possible.

[Blako]

Okay thank you everyone for your replies, I will try the sneaky close-range approach :)

[Striker]

For those who have not pursued this bird in RL, sometimes they'll run instead of flushing, sometimes you have to darn near step on them or kick them to get them to move at all. They are good fliers and have been known to spook at the sound of a car door closing 100 meters or more away. Roosters are adept at hiding and after the first few pieces of bird shot fly past him he is a totally different bird. We must have a lot of older birds in this game because given a choice a late season old rooster tends to run from humans rather than immediately take flight. Many times the point where they actually do take flight happens to be just outside of shotgun range. Anything sound familiar to what the pheasants are doing in this game yet?

Edit: They do not like Bobcats. Let one of those furry demons get within 50 meters and they will def hit the air.

[DopaTrain]

Originally posted by Striker:

Anything sound familiar to what the pheasants are doing in this game yet?

Yeah they stay grounded until you are a few metres from them in my experience. The females are difficult to spot.

I look out into the field next to my house IRL and often see them being hunted. One group flush them from the woods with sticks and dogs into an open field where they take flight and get blasted by a line of shotguns.

Also when im out and about in the field or woods the first I know of them is when they make an alarm call and fly up a few metres from where I am.

[briansaxton]

I haven't tried this, but I wonder if the dog flushes them. I've had good luck sneaking close and whistling a couple of times.

[The One True Git]

Originally posted by Striker:

For those who have not pursued this bird in RL, sometimes they'll run instead of flushing, sometimes you have to darn near step on them or kick them to get them to move at all. They are good fliers and have been known to spook at the sound of a car door closing 100 meters or more away. Roosters are adept at hiding and after the first few pieces of bird shot fly past him he is a totally different bird. We must have a lot of older birds in this game because given a choice a late season old rooster tends to run from humans rather than immediately take flight. Many times the point where they actually do take flight happens to be just outside of shotgun range. Anything sound familiar to what the pheasants are doing in this game yet?

Edit: They do not like Bobcats. Let one of those furry demons get within 50 meters and they will def hit the air.

Thanks for the clarification. I just assumed that like many aspects of this game it was a simplified and exaggerated representation of real hunting. The more you know o7