MADISON, MINN. -- Far ahead, we can see the pheasants flushing. First a single, then a couple more. Now, at least a dozen have lit out for the distant cattails. It's December, and these birds have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pheasant hunter setting out. While the golden age of pheasant hunting may be behind us (just hunt with an older wingshooter and ...

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 ...

An overcast sky, a temperature in the low 30s and a week-old snow that was anything other than pristine made for the ideal conditions for an early-winter pheasant hunt. For the two Labrador retrievers ...

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 ...

Aug. 12—Conservation group Pheasants Forever/Quail Forever has launched a free online video series and how-to course aimed at encouraging first-time hunters to try upland bird hunting. module has ...

“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 ...

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 ...