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 ...

MCCLUSKY, N.D. -- We had hardly left the truck on this October afternoon when Chance, a 19-month-old Brittany, congealed into a rigid point in the ditch along the road. There was no doubt that a ...

The Michigan pheasant opener last Thursday dawned on the chilly and gloomy side. With an on-again, off-again light rain, I had high hopes that the dogs would have perfect scenting conditions in the ...

DILLON — Christian Sorenson pulled up on a flushing rooster pheasant and watched as it flew away against the backdrop of the Pioneer Mountains. The 13-year-old from Butte learned one of the many ...

A bag of South Dakota roosters, primarily taken on CREP walk-in. 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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Dogs rightly get much of the credit for putting the fun in pheasant hunting, but the birds themselves deserve as much or more. Apart from their nearly unrivaled physical beauty and their status as a ...

A flash of color, the sound of powerful wings flapping and usually a raucous squawk or two, and he's airborne. A wild, ringneck rooster pheasant flushing on a bright fall day is one of the great ...

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 ...

A rooster pheasant wandering the streets of Grand Forks the past couple of months has been the cock of the walk wherever he makes an appearance. Tim Pasley, who lives in central Grand Forks nowhere ...