At its core, pheasant hunting is a simple pursuit. You, plus maybe a couple of buddies, and a dog tromp through the uplands and lowlands flushing roosters. You walk until you shoot your limit and then ...

Before I ever owned a gun dog, I walked up pheasants on the family farm by myself. While I wouldn’t go back to hunting without a dog, I remember the special thrill of dogless hunting: there’s no ...

Anyone who has been around a while knows times and trends change. Hunters still at it have proved flexible enough to accept what they are given and to take what they can get. What they can get are ...

While the golden age of pheasant hunting may be behind us (just hunt with an older wingshooter and he’ll tell you all about it) there are still bag limits to be had. This is especially true for ...

Pheasant hunting success is never easy and requires practice at the clay target range to become proficient. Photo courtesy of the late Joe Forma Hunting Photo Collection The New York State Department ...

“We’ll flush about 150 birds today,” I told my new friend M.D. as we loaded our guns by his truck. A recent transplant to pheasant country at the time, M.D. raptly surveyed the wide fields, trying to ...

Wild pheasant populations have plummeted in New York (as they have in much of the East) over the last few decades, leading the state Department of Environmental Conservation to stock thousands of ...

Gravel crunched under tires and dust kicked up from the access road into Nockamixon State Park, as a Pennsylvania Game Commission truck lumbered through with its cargo of hundreds of fowl. These were ...

Hunting pheasants on Fish and Game's wildlife management areas is a popular fall tradition for upland bird hunters. To support this tradition, pen-raised pheasants are stocked at 24 sites across the ...

EPHRAIM — Utah’s popular pheasant and quail hunts open Saturday, Nov. 1, marking one of the most anticipated weekends of the fall hunting season for upland game enthusiasts across the state. The Utah ...