You fucking goomba, that’s totally wrong. The horsehair method is one way to catch pheasants, when it sticks in the pheasants’ throats they stand still and are thus easy to catch.
Danny and his dad’s revolutionary method is to soak the raisins so they swell, carefully hollow them out and fill them with the powder left over from his dad’s sleeping tablets, which they then feed to the pheasants so that they’ll drop out of the trees in a deep sleep once they are roosting.