Browsing this forum I see there's a few members creating fish traps and the like but so far I haven't see anyone telling how to trap large game birds.
So I thought I'd tell you a few tales my dad told me of how he done it when he was a lad. These techniques would probably be classed as pouching? but here goes...
TRAPPING GEESE.
My dad often used to tell me how he and his mates use to come home with bagfulls of geese? Living in Alloa by the river forth he and his mates used to make there way over to Alloa Inch
during the day with bags full of rice. They would scatter the rice around and then return home and wait till night. Any geese landing on the inch would be presented with a free feed of rice. Once fed they would settle down for the night. All my dad & his mates had to do was return to the inch and pick them up.
How was this done your probably wondering?
Simple. The geese would gorge themself on the rice which would swell up inside them bloting them up making them unable to fly.
Another similar way was to soak a bag of grain over night in Rawgut-(so called if you drank it it would give you a rawgut
) -Hootch-Moonshine. this would be scattered around the same way and the team would return in the dead of night to collect the druken geese
TRAPPING PHEASANT.
Technique 1.
First of you'll need to know where pheasant roost for the night and there should be a slight breeze blowing. Arm yourself with an old shoepolish full of sulphur.
Now head for the woods and stay downwind of the roosters. Light the sulphur tin and wait?
What your waiting for is the sound of dead birds falling out of the trees due to being poisoned by the sulphur fumes. Send the dog in to find them or try hunting them out yourself.
Technique 2.
Birdlime.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdlime
The use of birdlime is illegal but here's one way it was used along with a bit of paper/card to trap a pheasant.
Find an area where the pheasants have been feeding. Next dig a small hole in that area and scatter some type of seed/grain around the hole. Now make a small cone with the paper/card and place in the hole you made, making sure that the top rim of your cone is level with the ground. Next place some seed/grain in your cone. The last step is to smear the top rim of the cone with birdlime -(remember this stuffs illegal).
Retreat to your hide and wait for the fun.
What will happen once the birds return to feed. is they'll eat all the free feed you scattered around, then one curious bird will dip its head in your cone to get the seed/grain and hey presto you are now wetting yourself with laughter at a pheasant running around a field wearing a little hat that it cant get off its head. Now go catch that party hatted pheasant.
Note...I dont think this technique would work with Turkeys as they dont like chistmas and refuse to wear hats
Technique 3.
This is similar to technique 2 but theres no illegal stuff used.
Find an area where the birds feed and scatter around a good free feed of seed/grain, also scatter in some of your magic seeds/grain?
What are those magic seeds/grain you ask?
Well there seeds/grain that you have prepared before hand. Seeds/grain with a tiny hole in them made with a pin, through which you tie a horses tailhair or you may use very thin fishing line. Make around a dozen.
What happens is the birds feed on your free seed/grain until they eat one of the horsehair seeds then the panic sets in?
The bird will claw at its beak trying to remove the horsehair/fishingline until its exausted. Even after that bird has recovered it will go at it again trying to remove the line.
Well there you have it how to trap big game birds. Im wondering if any other members know of these or any other old time ways of catching big game birds?
Tom
So I thought I'd tell you a few tales my dad told me of how he done it when he was a lad. These techniques would probably be classed as pouching? but here goes...
TRAPPING GEESE.
My dad often used to tell me how he and his mates use to come home with bagfulls of geese? Living in Alloa by the river forth he and his mates used to make there way over to Alloa Inch
during the day with bags full of rice. They would scatter the rice around and then return home and wait till night. Any geese landing on the inch would be presented with a free feed of rice. Once fed they would settle down for the night. All my dad & his mates had to do was return to the inch and pick them up.
How was this done your probably wondering?
Simple. The geese would gorge themself on the rice which would swell up inside them bloting them up making them unable to fly.
Another similar way was to soak a bag of grain over night in Rawgut-(so called if you drank it it would give you a rawgut
) -Hootch-Moonshine. this would be scattered around the same way and the team would return in the dead of night to collect the druken geese TRAPPING PHEASANT.
Technique 1.
First of you'll need to know where pheasant roost for the night and there should be a slight breeze blowing. Arm yourself with an old shoepolish full of sulphur.
Now head for the woods and stay downwind of the roosters. Light the sulphur tin and wait?
What your waiting for is the sound of dead birds falling out of the trees due to being poisoned by the sulphur fumes. Send the dog in to find them or try hunting them out yourself.
Technique 2.
Birdlime.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdlime
The use of birdlime is illegal but here's one way it was used along with a bit of paper/card to trap a pheasant.
Find an area where the pheasants have been feeding. Next dig a small hole in that area and scatter some type of seed/grain around the hole. Now make a small cone with the paper/card and place in the hole you made, making sure that the top rim of your cone is level with the ground. Next place some seed/grain in your cone. The last step is to smear the top rim of the cone with birdlime -(remember this stuffs illegal).
Retreat to your hide and wait for the fun.
What will happen once the birds return to feed. is they'll eat all the free feed you scattered around, then one curious bird will dip its head in your cone to get the seed/grain and hey presto you are now wetting yourself with laughter at a pheasant running around a field wearing a little hat that it cant get off its head. Now go catch that party hatted pheasant.
Note...I dont think this technique would work with Turkeys as they dont like chistmas and refuse to wear hats
Technique 3.
This is similar to technique 2 but theres no illegal stuff used.
Find an area where the birds feed and scatter around a good free feed of seed/grain, also scatter in some of your magic seeds/grain?
What are those magic seeds/grain you ask?
Well there seeds/grain that you have prepared before hand. Seeds/grain with a tiny hole in them made with a pin, through which you tie a horses tailhair or you may use very thin fishing line. Make around a dozen.
What happens is the birds feed on your free seed/grain until they eat one of the horsehair seeds then the panic sets in?
The bird will claw at its beak trying to remove the horsehair/fishingline until its exausted. Even after that bird has recovered it will go at it again trying to remove the line.
Well there you have it how to trap big game birds. Im wondering if any other members know of these or any other old time ways of catching big game birds?
Tom
