Live pheasant traps

[Goshawker1 1]

As the title says , what do you guys find the easiest and best way to trap pheasants live?

I have a young GSP and wanted to hide a couple in cages in cover to hopefully help him start pointing!

 

ATB Mark

[riohog 5,707]

As the title says , what do you guys find the easiest and best way to trap pheasants live?

I have a young GSP and wanted to hide a couple in cages in cover to hopefully help him start pointing!

 

ATB Mark

go and ask a keeper

[paulus 26]

wire box with reducing pop holes baited with maize/corn

[Millet 4,497]

I made one a few year's back but i never got chance to catch any pheasant's..but i did catch a load of feral pigeon's..

[tegater 789]

Hazel pyramid are quite discrete!

[paulus 26]

Hazel pyramid are quite discrete!

that one ray mears made was the size of an egyptian pyramid

[Tyla 3,179]

Buy a couple off a keeper, it'd be far easier than trapping

[mark@mbb 31]

I made a few mate like lobster pots i just set them all over and gave the pheasants to a small shoot nearby

 

 

[JohnGalway 1,043]

Buy a couple off a keeper, it'd be far easier than trapping

 

But so much less fun

[the durham digger 127]

When i was keepering we used wire crates for catching up. The crates were 3ft x 3ft and 2ft high with a funnel on 2 of the sides... and like paulus says bait with wheat or maize although the birds find maize easier i find. Just be careful whos pheasants your catching up!

[nod 285]

Its all fair game if they are on your land, don't matter who puts them down. That's the same type we used to use to catch up in feb

[Lab 10,979]

Its all fair game if they are on your land, don't matter who puts them down. That's the same type we used to use to catch up in feb

youd be catching f**k all anyway!!! Lol

[tb25 4,627]

Its all fair game if they are on your land, don't matter who puts them down. That's the same type we used to use to catch up in feb

youd be catching f**k all anyway!!! Lol

just bite ffs ,,you no you want to lol

[Born Hunter 17,763]

Chicken wire cage with simple bob holes. Then just loose feed a decent feed mix around the trap and plenty in near the bob hole and you will catch shit loads in the right place. Carefull with spooking them in the traps though, if they constantly try to escape from the trap you will find them scalped badly and bashed up! Also if you are catching well the local foxes soon learn where to get an easy meal!

[dankay123 33]

for the cheapest traps to make get some card roll it into a cone. paint inside contact glue or carpet high tack glue when its nearly gone off put some sweetcorn or feed on the glue so they stick to it. tie it to a piece of string and repeat it til you have a line of about 5. bring them to your local pheasant haunt and line them out in cover away from prying eyes. stake the end with a bar or branch. throw a handful of feed around them and return in a few hours to 5 live pheasants sat there waiting with paper cones stuck to their heads. works best late afternoon. dont let keeper catch you. and they dont last long if it pisses down. seen this done as i didnt believe it would work