Recent content by OpticMinnow

Mason - I gave up on this site a forum a while back. Lots of excuses and no solutions. Responded to another post of yours - I can bring elbow grease, other participants and some funding to folks like you willing to think outside the box. Our state is full of great habitat. Tired of hearing...

Mason - just seeing your post. I am willing to help with elbow grease and money and can possibly get others to participate.

Remy3424 Your posts are music to my ears. I gave up on this forum a few years back and for some reason decided to sign on today. I moved to PA about 15 years ago and have never given up on the wild bird population and know some wild birds exist still. TroutBum said it well (things are...

Good luck this year and thanks for the response. Now I remember why I only have made six posts ... Have had my Britt out too (lots of fun) and have been asked to take some "up and comers" on the youth hunt. Did it last year and had a great time. Looking forward to 2019/20.

Team - It has been many moons since I posted, yet I still sign on this site nearly weekly to see what is going on with the future of the birds I love to hunt in PA. Not much activity on the site these days. When I first moved to PA, things were very active on this site. Many hunters and...

FLDBRED - Thanks! You just answered my burning question when you reference that the wild ringneck was never declared extinct in PA. This is what I could not determine in all of my research. I was super excited when we saw those roosters in Lancaster county this late summer (early fall)...

Thanks for the feedback. I get it on the stocked birds (the program is tremendous) ... trust me, I am not simply "hoping" as suggested, I am hunting. And, yes, my britt and I find birds on SGLs on the last day of season and long after. And, yes, we shoot birds that I believe are holdovers on...

FLDBRED - I am not sure that I understand this report/stats. Does this mean that there are pockets of wild pheasants on private property and/or SGLs outside of the WPRAs? I recently spent a little time with the PF PA regional field rep and I told him about two occasions of seeing pheasants in...

Thanks HollowWatcher for the response. I am a chapter-less member of Pheasants Forever who is willing and able to do the necessary legwork. I don't think there is a local PF chapter (Lititz) ... where do I start? It seems like with Middle Creek being a "propagation" management area for other...

New to forum and relatively new to PA. Have been studying wild Pheasant habitat (PGC studies and maps), and some of the more recent habitat maps available (while dated), show Lancaster County as one of the more hopeful of counties to sustain some wild pheasant reproduction. I have made many...