There are two ways you can hunt pheasants around Rotorua - you can put on your boots and walk the bush or you can put on your tweeds and shoot on a preserve. Either way, pheasants are hard to shoot.

While Brownie tracks down black truffles, Logie heads out with seventy-seven year old hunter, Bill Teare who loves to hunt pheasants and work his dog. Pheasants are fast flyers making them great game birds and when Bill's dog flushes out two birds, Bill unfortunately misses.

The next day Brownie goes to Titoki where John and Liz Wells run highly coordinated pheasant shoots involving over 55 people. Eight "guns" pay for the privilege of shooting. Everyone else comes along for the love of it - loaders, beaters, fetchers and their dogs - and they all work together to make sure the "guns" get the decent crack at their quarry. Reaching speeds over 90 kilometers per hour pheasants are challenging target, but Brownie manages to shoot a couple for the table.

Back at Bill and Grace's house, Brownie plucks the birds while Logie digs up Jerusalem artichokes growing wild on the side of the road. Then they prepare a meal fit for a king - pheasant confit and truffle stuffed pheasant breasts accompanied by pureed Jerusalem artichokes and a bottle of Mills Reef Cabernet Merlot.

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