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 ...

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 ...

A colorful, raucous invasive species made good, the ringnecked pheasant is our most successful wildlife import. Brought to Oregon from China in 1881, the pheasant spread from coast to coast. It became ...

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 ...

Long gone are the days when I went hunting with my dad. He usually got a ringneck pheasant or two on an autumn Saturday. He’d field dress it and take it home to mum. Pheasants were, and are, free food ...

The feathered remains of pheasants were strewn along a stretch of Sunrise Highway about a half mile from the edge of Otis Pike Preserve in Manorville earlier this month. Every 15 or 20 feet a ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Want to know where to hunt pheasants in South Dakota? Based on forecast reports from Pheasants Forever and the South Dakota Game Fish and Parks Department, the numbers are ...

When you think of pheasants in Colorado, you might think of hunting. And the hunting season for the game bird is underway in the state. Because of a warm and dry spring, Colorado Parks and Wildlife is ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – Pheasant hunting season is right around the corner in South Dakota. For hunters, both resident and nonresident, pheasant experts say there’ll be plenty of birds as the ...

In the fall of the early 1970s, ring-necked pheasants were the reason I first began hunting. It was a time when wild ring-necks were everywhere in Pennsylvania, a time when you could walk through a ...