Are Pheasants Affected By Shooting Noise?

[alg 0]

I like to practise clay shooting in my 2.5 acre field but there are pheasant pens at the end of it, although with a good amount of cover in front of them. I do stop for a few weeks when the birds are first put in the pens but once they settle in they don't seem to take much notice of shotgun or rifle shots, opinions please.

Edited August 20, 2017 by alg

[socks 32,253]

The sooner they get used to it the better lol .......

[sussex 5,801]

We have a big crow problem , I sometimes have to decoy in the pens (8 acres ) and it doesn't seem to bother them at all ..

[Hands of Stone 154]

On our place we shoot vermin on the rearing field and in and around the release pens with shotguns and centrefires. If anything it seems to help on a shoot day as the pheasants don't take it personally.

[forest of dean redneck 11,788]

I'd say their more affected by the impact of the shot than the noise lol

[j j m 6,567]

I don't think it bothers them

[The one 8,523]

After the first shoot they soon wise up 

[azazello 6]

in this case I would suggest to think of side solution, like in permaculture, finding a way to let the environment doing what you want to achieve, attracting other predators or might even be smelling plants, you have to study a local solution depending on your environment.