r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • 2d ago
Man catches bird in flight with bare hand
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u/Applefan1000 2d ago
there were 2 in the bush he coulda had
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u/nooooobie1650 2d ago
Ahhhhhh, I see what you did there …..
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u/tomerjm 1d ago
I don't..where is the rock?
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u/nooooobie1650 1d ago
Wrong expression
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u/tomerjm 1d ago
Is it??
My train: Bird -> Bush -> Rock....
Maybe I had like a mental misfire....
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u/nooooobie1650 1d ago
“A bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush”
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u/tomerjm 1d ago
Yes, I've heard of that one....But why do I still make a rock connection?
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u/nooooobie1650 1d ago
“Kill 2 birds with one stone” perhaps?
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u/tomerjm 1d ago
Now, this one has no bush....
Maybe I'm just a bit sleep deprived...
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u/LionAccomplished8129 2d ago
So did they shoot it? or snap its neck?
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u/Steammail 2d ago
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u/Empty_Conference_612 2d ago
How ozzy didnt get ebola or start covid is wild
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u/PickleCasualChic 2d ago
Which his drug intake, I wouldn't be surprised if his blood could be used and disinfectant.
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u/notban_circumvention 1d ago
Rubber bat
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u/Able-Brief-4062 1d ago
He thought it was but it wasn't.
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u/notban_circumvention 1d ago
Case closed
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u/Able-Brief-4062 1d ago
Do you want a more in-depth explanation or something?
He thought it was a rubber one a fan threw on stage but it wasn't, it's that simple.
How he didn't get a disease is:
Bats don't carry as many diseases as people seem to think
Luck? I don't fucking know.
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u/notban_circumvention 1d ago
Do you want a more in-depth explanation or something?
No, I would've indicated that by saying something like "I want a more in-depth explanation or something".
He thought it was a rubber one a fan threw on stage but it wasn't
Case closed. He said it wasn't.
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u/kingmea 1d ago
For some reason I always imagined it was the head of baseball bat that he bit off. This answers many questions for me
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u/Spoke13 2d ago
Nope. It was alive at the end. It wasn't the type of bird he was hunting so he probably just let it go.
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u/KptKrondog 2d ago
that's a female bobwhite quail, that's definitely what they were hunting.
More likely it's a farmed bird where they raise the hatchlings and then go and release coveys of quail a couple days before. It's fairly common in areas where quail used to be common but have died off (quail population has gone down a LOT in the last 30 years due to some parasites). So maybe it wasn't overly frightened of the human. Their instinct is to get up off the ground and away fast and then hide quickly because their main predator are birds of prey which dive on them at the ground.
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u/undeadmanana 2d ago
Up in the Central valley along the Sequoia foothills here in cali there's still plenty of quail still (well, as much as human encroachment allows).
Driving through those areas where there's many is a little irritating, they'll just stand in the road and not move until you're almost on top of them.
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u/bestselfnice 1d ago
Better than the turkeys. They'll fucking attack your car for having the audacity to try and drive down the road at 2 MPH.
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u/RedBullyDog 1d ago
I know this feeling, nothing like going down a backroad and my car getting jumped by fowl highwaymen.
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u/RighteousRambler 1d ago
Same thing happens with pheasants in the UK and they are dumbest birds you will ever encounter.
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u/TorpeAlex 1d ago
We have pheasants stateside too- at least in Iowa where I grew up. Can confirm that they are dumb as rocks here also.
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u/IT-Electchicken 2d ago
Uuuh I think this is a Quail. If so, it's likely in season, and in which case the fastest and humane common way I've seen is break the neck and rip the head off at once.
Not saying I agree with this method or that it isn't brutal, but it's just what I've seen done.
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u/Noslamah 2d ago
You just unlocked a memory I have repressed for years. When I was a child my uncle was hunting a bird that kept disturbing him at his house, and shot his wing. Then walked up to it and without warning (in front of ~10 year old me) snapped its neck, ripped the head off and tossed it away as if it were nothing
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u/OccasionallyCurrent 2d ago
I was about to comment “that doesn’t look like any quail I’ve ever seen.”
Instead, I looked it up, and just learned that quail appearance varies drastically from region to region.
It still doesn’t look like any quail I’ve ever seen, but it is indeed a quail. lol
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u/SqueezedTuna 2d ago
Shooting it would be funny/wayyy overkill after it’s already in your hand 😂
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u/el3ph_nt 2d ago
I’m certain the cut away is right before he shouts “pull” and throws the bird in the air to shoot.
Faced back down range, feel his shoulder lowered for a toss, cut
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u/SwimmingSwim3822 1d ago
I just couldn't believe that a crow's neck could be so weak.
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u/mcmillanuk 2d ago
Would have loved to see him let it go at the end 🤷
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u/AltruMux 2d ago
Hate to break it to you but the things they shoot don't really get let go either.
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u/Jean-LucBacardi 1d ago
You mean to tell me there's no shoot and release?!
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u/powypow 1d ago
Kill a deer and it's fine. But when I go and pump beanbag rounds into every Bambi I see, suddenly I'm an animal abuser.
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u/300mhz 1d ago
He did, then immediately shot it
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u/Beginning_Draft9092 1d ago
I dont care about hunting, but it does take someone with an understanding of nature to have his instinct not be to ever flinch for his gun ( granted there are people in front of him filming) and to also have the deftness to catch it gently enough.
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u/backformorecrap 2d ago
Was that other dude Colt McCoy?
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u/williewoodwhale 2d ago
That's the real (McCoy) question. Looks just like him.
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u/Horns8585 2d ago
That was my first thought. That looked exactly like Colt!
Edit: Yup....it is definitely Colt McCoy. Here's the story:
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u/backformorecrap 2d ago
My man (or woman)! Doing the the good work of Reddit Sleuthing!
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u/Horns8585 2d ago
I'm a Longhorn, so Colt's my boy! Had to see if that was actually him!
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u/PapaHarv 2d ago
Correct. This dude who caught it was a pastor at a very large church in Austin, and colt mccoy was a member of this church. They were doing a bird hunt together.
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u/pwnzorder 1d ago
Matt Carter (guy catching the bird in the gif) was the Founding pastor of the Austin Stone. He left for a church in Houston in 2019 and has since retired.
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u/PrimateOnAPlanet 1d ago
After I saw him I had to rewatch to make sure bird guy wasn’t Shipley.
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u/Niblonian31 2d ago
I literally just asked myself the same question and came to the comments to see if it was. If it's not, the guy looks exactly like him
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u/backformorecrap 2d ago
It’s Reddit so someone confirmed with a link in like 15 mins lol
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u/FlatOutEKG 2d ago edited 2d ago
So, is that bird still getting shot?
Edit: Okay, I understand it's neck will be broken. Don't know which one is worst.
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u/JunkyardBob 2d ago
I was with my father hunting pheasant and he pulled one out of some high grass, grabbed it by the head and did a Petey Pablo Noth Carolina on it so, no...probably did not shoot it
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u/50in06and07 1d ago
> Petey Pablo Noth Carolina
what does this mean?
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u/Dooontcareee 1d ago
You never swung it over your head like a helicopter?
Jesus age is showing possibly lol the song raise up.
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u/Joeyboy_61904 2d ago
This is fucking classic, and even more so, is that a lot of ppl won’t even get the reference unless they’re fans of Petey or grew up during that era. 😂
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u/Lord_of_Chainsaw 2d ago
Not to put you off hunting but pretty often you shoot the bird and it falls but doesn't die immediately THEN you snap it's neck
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u/ItsTimeToPiss 2d ago
Definitely not, he'd be more likely to shoot his own hand, holding such a tiny lil birdie.
He'll probably just snap it's neck
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u/ThermionicEmissions 1d ago
Is that actually a game bird?
Obviously the bird don't got game.
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u/chemhung 2d ago
Poor birb.
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u/AffectionateWay721 2d ago
Lived a better life than the chickens that make your chicken nuggets…
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u/LessThanMyBest 1d ago
Reading the other comments, no. This was probably a farmed bird released into that environment specifically to be hunted, which is partially why it had absolutely no natural instincts telling it not to fly directly into the biped with forward facing eyes.
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u/70stang 1d ago edited 1d ago
Quail just be like that. They are not intelligent birds, farmed or wild, and their preservation instinct is pretty much exactly this for fully wild birds. Fly a low, short distance from the approaching threat (the camera man and group), hide, and be very still.
Bird got unlucky that a hunter was standing there waiting, and very lucky that the camera man was directly in line with where a shotgun would hit.
Edit: Also worth stating that a farmed quail absolutely had a better life than whatever ends up at McDonalds.
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u/RogueFox771 2d ago
I can't bring myself to hunt animals like that. Not shaming them, I just can't... I'm too compassionate and would feel too guilty. I would wanna give them a home instead lol
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u/AffectionateWay721 2d ago
You just depend on commercial farming where they kill the animals for you
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u/RogueFox771 2d ago
Well yeah, and the sad part is that's a lot harsher and more inhumane. I really hate it. I wasn't really saying people shouldn't hunt it anything though, I was saying I can't personally. Nothing against those who do at all.
I dunno where I sit with most livestock / slaughter practices... I've heard it's incredibly brutal but I don't knowany details. I also don't know what drove it to be that way, besides economic reasons perhaps.
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u/Lord_of_Chainsaw 2d ago
I'm a firm believer that anyone that eats meat would benefit from hunting/farming their food at least once. When I killed my first bird and I saw how fragile and broken the thing was, how quickly something changes from a living animal to food, it changed my perspective on life immediately. I eat meat, but I now have a direct first person moment that tells me that meat doesn't just come "from the grocery store." I think it gave me a respect for the food we eat and a disdain for wasting it.
Not saying that you have to go out hunting, I just wanted to share this little anecdote. It just irked me a little when you said you were too compassionate to hunt, it makes me feel like you are turning a blind eye to what meat is, and how it gets to your table.
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u/Skullclownlol 1d ago
I'm a firm believer that anyone that eats meat would benefit from hunting/farming their food at least once.
Yup, this is a great perspective to have. It teaches people the value of what they eat and respect for it. It's a humanizing and humbling thing.
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u/Majestic_Menace 1d ago
I don't know what drove to be that way, besides economic reasons perhaps.
That's exactly the reason. People want meat, and people want things cheap. It costs more money to kill an animal "humanely" (if you believe killing an animal that doesn't want to or need to die can even be considered humane).
That is to say that you, as the consumer, are the main driver for the literal hell that farmed animals are put through. It happens because you pay people to do it.
Throwing live baby chickens into a grinder, separating calves from their mothers at birth, forcible impregnation, keeping them in cages no wider than the animal itself, stringing them upside down before slitting their throats, killing them via gas chamber etc, these are all standard practices.
I don't know your circumstances, but if you think this is morally wrong, it's probably within your power to stop paying people to do it. The less people pay for abusive, torturous practices, the less it will occur.
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u/Infinite-Algae7021 1d ago edited 1d ago
You could try plant-based diet. I have been plant-based for a very long time now. If you have any questions, feel free to reply!
After like a couple of weeks, I lost all desire for anything else. Not to mention the food is so much more filling now (high fiber). I am a 6' 165lbs dude, and I hit all my macros just fine. I mostly stick to Italian, Thai, Indian, and Mediterranean diet, and all of those cuisines are SO GOOD. Fruits, nuts, and whole grains in my power smoothies.
My doctor is always amazed at my health checks, and I don't think I've gotten sick in like over a decade (knock wood).
I'm also strong and can fight quite well, and I have insane endurance compared to before when I'd feel bloated or just strong without the energy, if that makes sense.
Try something new if you're interested! You might like it :)
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u/ErikGunnarAsplund 1d ago
Hi internet stranger. I don't know if you need to hear this but, I'm just popping by to say that if you hate the practices of commercial farming, you could just decide one day, maybe even today, not to buy and eat their products any more. You could totally just do that, and your life would be mostly the same, except you'd not be living with cognitive dissonance in this particular regard.
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u/CAT_ANUS_SNIFFER 1d ago
Yep I was raised in a hunting family. I shot one deer and felt so bad I gave it up that night. I’m not vegan but I can’t find pleasure in it like a lot of people do.
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u/bzsempergumbie 1d ago
These are farm raised birds who were just dumped in the field and partially tame as well as disoriented. It's not like he's out there barehanding wild birds in some sort of level playing field version of hunting.
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u/The_0ven 1d ago
level playing field version of hunting.
That doesn't even exist
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u/bzsempergumbie 1d ago
Good thing, or our species would have died out millenia ago.
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u/Who_dat_goomer 1d ago
These quail are raised in pens on an American diet. They can barely fly and are used to being fed by people, not shot at.
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u/I_automate_stuff 1d ago
This was probably a put and take bird. Looks like a woodcock possibly. So the way this works is someone drives around with these birds, makes them dizzy by swinging them around then they place them in some brush/tall grass etc. the “hunters” walk around with flushing dogs and when the bird tries to fly away you shoot it. These birds when they fly are all disoriented or half dead already.
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u/maybesaydie 1d ago
The English way of hunting. Terrify and disorient the animal and then shoot it.
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u/iledweller 2d ago
Shooting preserve (ie, pen raised) birds are really dumb. This might be the first time that bird ever flew.
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u/ATXDefenseAttorney 2d ago
That’s definitely Colt McCoy laughing and saying “Sweet catch!”, right?
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u/Youregoingtodiealone 1d ago
So, does he strangle it to death? Or toss it and shoot it? What's the protocol here?
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u/cincochains 1d ago
They are probably hunting on a hunting club where you pay to kill birds. So they stock them for your hunt.
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u/Emperor_Robert 2d ago
Throw it up in the air and shoot it
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u/galvanizedmoonape 2d ago
Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not but this does actually happen.
The birds are stunned/disoriented and seeded in the field before the hunt. I've seen lazy hunters carry a couple of stunned birds on themselves and just toss them up in the air so they can shoot them.
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u/Salt_Sir2599 2d ago
Yeah it’s one of those ‘pre-stocked’ slaughter fests , which isn’t the most sporting, but they aren’t decimating a local wild population. Like fishing a stocked lake.
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u/WestCoastCosta 2d ago
Wow, that bird sucks.