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 ...

Whether it’s a small group of pheasants running out in front of you along an old tractor trail between a crop field and a stone wall or a big ringneck exploding out of a tangled thicket of slough ...

Wisconsin's pheasant season opens at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 18. The Wisconsin DNR has reminders for hunters and the public. Pheasant season continues into January 2026. MADISON, Wis. - The Wisconsin ...

Ohio’s ring-necked pheasant hunting season is imminent. This Saturday, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources will begin releasing 14,000 pheasants for Ohio’s 2024 small game hunting season. Male ...

Last Saturday, our woodcock, grouse and pheasant seasons opened. Sadly, there just aren’t enough wild woodcock and grouse anymore for our large and concentrated hunting population. To the delight of ...

The right choke for pheasant hunting will help you put enough pellets in a ringneck’s vitals to drop the bird immediately. Pheasants are big, tough birds, often shot going away, at distances varying ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the first time ever on a Sunday the sound of flushed, cackling pheasants and the report of shotgun blasts will be heard in Pennsylvania as junior pheasant hunters and mentored youth hunters of all ...