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 ...

The annual opening of Michigan’s pheasant season on October 20 is a revered day for me, and has been since I was a kid. My first memories of hunting are of being in the fields of our farm with ...

Ring-necked pheasants were first stocked by the Pennsylvania Game Commission in 1915, but populations didn’t significantly increase until after 1923 when laws were enacted establishing bag and season ...

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 ...

A good bird dog is an essential part of the pheasant hunting experience. Here are some of the reputed best breeds.

The beauty of upland hunting lies in its simplicity. It’s a walk with a gun. Your goal is to frighten ground-dwelling birds into flight, so you can shoot them. Even if you don’t find anything, you’ve ...

It is assumed by many folks that pheasants are indigenous to North America, but they are not. Their ancestry hails primarily from Eurasia, where various regions feature distinctly different subspecies ...

About 1 in every 25 to 30 birds will have a silver band on its leg that has a phone number for the successful hunter to call ...

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 ...

Hearing the cackle of a pheasant as it takes flight and enjoying the landscape on a quiet winter’s day, are just a few of the reasons to be hunting across Pennsylvania this time of year. The ...