The article by Tom Conroy in Outdoor News (Oct. 7, 2011) got me thinking. What is the best way to dispatch a wounded pheasant?? Since I began hunting, I have simply wrung the bird’s neck with varying degrees of success. This technique has to look pretty gross to the uninitiated (grandchildren and daughters-in-law). Is there a better way or a better technique??
Thanks for your thoughts on this.
That’s what I do also but I’ve seen guys step on their heads too. Or you can have my older dog with the hard mouth retrieve it for ya. 
You can hold their heads in your hand and bite the pheasant at the base of the skull where it meets the neck such that you sever the spine and they die instantly.
No. I’m not joking. My great grandfather taught my father and all his brothers to do this. And no, I don’t do it because it’s freakishly weird and I’d rather wring their necks. Kids get a huge kick out of it though, in that gross-out kid way.
Grouse
Its much like trapping. You want a quick kill and be ethical about it. But different circumstances require different methods. I’ve had to dispatch a lot of coon over the years, and their nervous system tends to create a very undesirable spectacle for an unknowing individual or kids. Discretion is advised – somethings are just best not shown to others.
I’m kinda thinkin replies to the question should be sent via a pm, and not on the open forum. The anti’s already have alot of fuel for their fires, us sportsmen don’t need to give them more. Just my opinion…
I’ve already done the same thing. I’ve read about a way to do it that involves holding them in both hands a applying strong pressure from your thumbs into their chest, but I’ve never tried it.
Just slide ur fingers from top of bird at base of wings and SQEEZE the air out of them very easy and fast 
I typically just fold the head over at the base of the neck and hold it for 30 seconds or so…
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I’m kinda thinkin replies to the question should be sent via a pm, and not on the open forum. The anti’s already have alot of fuel for their fires, us sportsmen don’t need to give them more. Just my opinion…
I see no need to hide this discussion.
Death is part of hunting.
It may not be pretty at times and I do try for a clean kill.
If people can’t accept that, its there issue not mine.
I use lethal injection 
Have a friend toss it up in the air and shoot it again.
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I’m kinda thinkin replies to the question should be sent via a pm, and not on the open forum. The anti’s already have alot of fuel for their fires, us sportsmen don’t need to give them more. Just my opinion…
You will never appease the antis into submission.
Our existance as hunters and anglers is all the ammunition they need. If anything, encouraging people to hide a legitimate discussion of a legal activity is what gives them more ammunition becuase by doing so you are implying that there is something shameful thatshold behidden.
It is our moral right to hunt and fish and in MN at least it is also our constitutional right. Hiding only makes us look like we have something to be ashamed of, and I for one am not ashamed of being a huter and an angler.
Grouse
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Its much like trapping. You want a quick kill and be ethical about it. But different circumstances require different methods. I’ve had to dispatch a lot of coon over the years, and their nervous system tends to create a very undesirable spectacle for an unknowing individual or kids. Discretion is advised – somethings are just best not shown to others.
You cant leave us hanging with just that! Please enlighten those of us that have not had the privledge.
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Its much like trapping. You want a quick kill and be ethical about it. But different circumstances require different methods. I’ve had to dispatch a lot of coon over the years, and their nervous system tends to create a very undesirable spectacle for an unknowing individual or kids. Discretion is advised – somethings are just best not shown to others.
You cant leave us hanging with just that! Please enlighten those of us that have not had the privledge.
A coon dies just as hard as a cat. Anyone who has seen either knows what was said
I wring the neck, but I have also seen the bite method done and tried the cutting off the wind pipe as well. Wringing the neck is still the most effective way.
Carry it out to the road and run over it a few times. Most people don’t seem to have a problem with road kill as they pass over it.
I guess that’d be on par with throwing it in the air shooting it again. 
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A coon dies just as hard as a cat. Anyone who has seen either knows what was said
My brother had a Coon problem in Lino Lakes. I think he was mad because they massacred the ducks and ducklings he kept in a cage over night. He told me you have to be pretty dang patient if you expect to drown them in the trap.
Most of the pheasants I shoot die of lead poisoning 
If that doesnt work I go with wringing the neck!
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A coon dies just as hard as a cat. Anyone who has seen either knows what was said
Who has the ability to carry a microwave out into a corn field?
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A coon dies just as hard as a cat. Anyone who has seen either knows what was said
Who has the ability to carry a microwave out into a corn field?
Everyone knows you don’t carry the microwave out into the field……You carry the cat back from the field with a carrier!
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