Neck Wringing
10-17-2004, 10:03 PM
#1
Nontypical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Audubon & Red Rock, Penna.
Posts: 4,472
Neck Wringing
I may be in the minotity but does anyone else not like this part of hunting. I don't bird-hunt much, but when I do, I try to place my shots. I want my kill to be made by the gun.
10-17-2004, 10:07 PM
#2
Spike
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Hampshire IL USA
Posts: 22
RE: Neck Wringing
first trip i went on, luckily i had a guide. i had him do it. brother in law gave me lots of crap, but it was the hardest part. by the third time out, i could do it, but i still dont care for it. glad i'm not the only one!
10-17-2004, 11:33 PM
#4
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: De Witt, Iowa
Posts: 1,060
RE: Neck Wringing
Im not a sick person or anything, but i actually enjoy doing it!! I like to make sure that the kill has been completed... Better than being kicked in the back several times because your birds still alive and kickin!!
10-18-2004, 01:44 PM
#5
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location:
Posts: 49
RE: Neck Wringing
BarnesX.308,
What do you do when you (on the rare occassion) don't place your shot perfectly? Of course we all try to place our shots to harvest the bird in the most humane manner. However, when that shot doesn't quite do the job, carrying a miniature guillotine in your game vest gets a little heavy so the neck wringer is the next best thing. It's all in the name of not making the bird suffer.
What do you do when you (on the rare occassion) don't place your shot perfectly? Of course we all try to place our shots to harvest the bird in the most humane manner. However, when that shot doesn't quite do the job, carrying a miniature guillotine in your game vest gets a little heavy so the neck wringer is the next best thing. It's all in the name of not making the bird suffer.
10-19-2004, 08:39 AM
#6
Typical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Colorado Springs, CO
Posts: 510
RE: Neck Wringing
You guys make me laugh! If you have a hard mouthed dog it will do it for you. I don't have one of those, so I have to finish my own work. But there is another way, hold the bird by the chest and don't let it breath, it will expire. Then you won't have crunch or flop flop flop from neck wringing. It is fairly quick and easy. Have a good hunt this fall.
Gselkhunter
Gselkhunter
10-20-2004, 10:36 AM
#8
Join Date: May 2004
Location:
Posts: 429
RE: Neck Wringing
You just blasted this bird out of the sky with 1 1/8 oz. of lead from a 12 ga. Now is not the time to show remorse. Dispatch the bird humanely with a neck wringing and go on. Or on your bigger birds you could bite the head like Phil Robertson does (this works).
You said that you do not bird hunt much. If you bird hunted a lot you would see that downed birds are still alive more than they are graveyard dead, especially with waterfowl. Regardless of shot placement we are still at the mercy of shot patterns. We do not have the luxury of determining exactly where the shot will penetrate. You would not hesitate to shoot a wounded big game animal in the vitals to put it down, just consider a neck wringing the same thing.
You said that you do not bird hunt much. If you bird hunted a lot you would see that downed birds are still alive more than they are graveyard dead, especially with waterfowl. Regardless of shot placement we are still at the mercy of shot patterns. We do not have the luxury of determining exactly where the shot will penetrate. You would not hesitate to shoot a wounded big game animal in the vitals to put it down, just consider a neck wringing the same thing.
10-20-2004, 10:24 PM
#10
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: central California ,and northeast Kansas
Posts: 7
RE: Neck Wringing
When hunting dove or quail it's easier to just pull their head off. I don't like it but I've thought about shooting birds twice so I don't have to deal with it. The other day I shot a turkey and it was still alive but it had a broken wing with the sharp bone sticking out when I spun it around to break it's neck the bone cut my arm.
