Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that Date: 4 Dec 2024 00:30:50 GMT Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: <68718613-d60f-a88a-4191-404acc1ed82d@example.net> <3a416c2c-ac2e-686b-3357-8a12c8b29181@example.net> <068213f4-0fe4-4fe0-c912-60d5a8d89c54@example.net> <7cd4f2b3-e9d0-17df-56f5-855d7a5ebcaf@example.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net siPPDYxr43WAZ8Otisw/RA48ZXYjBVKBIX904zHARuYRQQLljJ Cancel-Lock: sha1:Xf02xvtsPL+l3Ei9IpE+yGWLrj0= sha256:CCFbJhLh9Au6FdvXRYOeu1fk5DB/xNUy9gnKCQyREPY= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Bytes: 2332 On Tue, 3 Dec 2024 21:18:55 +0100, D wrote: > This is the truth! They were bred in captivity close to my country side > house, and one day either the farm closed, the birds escaped, or both. > So now there are "wild" pheasants running around there from time to > time. I have thought about getting out the old longbow, since they are > not shy at all. Maybe a project for next summer! That could be interesting. My father and I were rabbit hunting when a pheasant provided a target of opportunity. My father managed to knock the bird down and it landed in some brush about 50 yards away. The beagle ran over but after a brief scuffle the pheasant flew off and the beagle decided he wasn't a bird dog.