AT THE PHEASANT FARM/Ready To Stock

[Fred Flintstone]

 

[JD48]

Great vid, Fred

[Jerzguy2]

Thanks for posting. Another lost tradition in NJ. Not sure if raising stamp prices would have helped keep Rockport open, but it may have made a difference. Those entitled individuals that think stamp prices are to high, yet shoot way more than the average hunter are always the ones to complain. At one time there was a season limit of 40 birds in NJ !

[Gunsmoke]

Really cool

[ithaca10]

3 hours ago, Jerzguy2 said:

Thanks for posting. Another lost tradition in NJ. Not sure if raising stamp prices would have helped keep Rockport open, but it may have made a difference. Those entitled individuals that think stamp prices are to high, yet shoot way more than the average hunter are always the ones to complain. At one time there was a season limit of 40 birds in NJ !

in my 66 years of hunting never shot 40 birds in a season. either on public or private and we did raise and stock birds on our private land in Great Meadows Independence Roa An Gun

[Jerzguy2]

19 hours ago, ithaca10 said:

in my 66 years of hunting never shot 40 birds in a season. either on public or private and we did raise and stock birds on our private land in Great Meadows Independence Roa An Gun

Since most of my pheasant hunting was on wild birds in Somerset, Hunterdon, Mercer counties, hunting on any unposted land we could find, I never even came close to that number. Only hunted on state stocked land a few times, but things were very different during the week back then. It's a whole different game now. You can see the same guys with their dogs hammering these grounds all week long. For many it's getting their moneys worth. For me , hunting meant walking the thickets of Morris and Warren chasing the beautiful Grouse, so glad I have another memory of the really good days.

[BothBarrels]

I know it's not South Dakota or whatever, but I thoroughly enjoy hunting stocked birds on weekday afternoons. It is what it is.

I would pay more for the stamp, regardless if it helped Rockport stay open.

 

[bushden]

Nice video NJ does a good job with the stocking program !

[bushden]

There were a lot of places in NJ to hunt wild pheasant and quail all over the state when I was a kid but not today, the state stocking of WMA is a great way to give todays youth a small taste of what we enjoyed as kids. Thanks NJ for a job well done.

Edited August 8, 2022 by bushden

[JD48]

2 hours ago, bushden said:

There were a lot of places in NJ to hunt wild pheasant and quail all over the state when I was a kid but not today, the state stocking of WMA is a great way to give todays youth a small taste of what we enjoyed as kids. Thanks NJ for a job well done.

Sad those days are long gone, as a kid i would get home from school, grab my single shot and beagle, head out the back door and start hunting, plenty of rabbits and pheasant (Bergen County)

[OldPiney Woods]

46 minutes ago, JD48 said:

Sad those days are long gone, as a kid i would get home from school, grab my single shot and beagle, head out the back door and start hunting, plenty of rabbits and pheasant (Bergen County)

Same with me JD. I use to walk a short distance from my house and had plenty of rabbits, ducks and wild pheasants. That was in Hamilton Twp in the 1960s just a couple miles from the Trenton city border. The pheasants are long gone but great memories.

[JD48]

Never knew anybody that had bird dogs back then, everyone had beagles, could always tell when they were on a bird by the different sound of their howl

[OldPiney Woods]

10 minutes ago, JD48 said:

Never knew anybody that had bird dogs back then, everyone had beagles, could always tell when they were on a bird by the different sound of their howl

Same here. Everyone I knew had beagles. No one had bird dogs. The beagles did a good job on the pheasants.

[JD48]

28 minutes ago, OldPiney Woods said:

Same with me JD. I use to walk a short distance from my house and had plenty of rabbits, ducks and wild pheasants. That was in Hamilton Twp in the 1960s just a couple miles from the Trenton city border. The pheasants are long gone but great memories.

Great picture, was that a J.C. Higgins hunting jacket?

[OldPiney Woods]

18 minutes ago, JD48 said:

Great picture, was that a J.C. Higgins hunting jacket?

That picture was from my first day hunting in November 1966 at the age of 14. It was also my dog’s first day hunting. He was only 6 months old. I don’t remember the make of that jacket. It was a hand me down from an older cousin and I continued to use it for several years.