Wingshooting quail with a bow

When Brooks Johnson and I told people we were gonna try wingshooting quail with a bow and a recurve everyone thought we were crazy. But with a quiver full of flu flus tipped with Snaros we got it done at Birdseye View in Wisconsin. Even then a lot of folks didn’t believe us. Until we showed them the video footage that is….

wingshooting quail with a bow

Wingshooting quail with a bow

We started out wingshooting quail with a bow behind a flushing dog, and that worked, but once Carey at Birdseye View (906) 221 0783 brought out his german shorthair pointer our success rate more than doubled. We were ready for the flush, our feet were in the right position, and we were ready to draw.

wingshooting quail with a bow

That first day wingshooting quail Carey showed us how to recall the birds we missed to a recall pen. It worked great!  After buying birds it sucks watching them fly away, but most of our misses were back in the recall pen within an hour or two.