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i agree completely loosing focus is easy when not much is happening intermittently mounting your gun or following any bird may help i also found I shoot better with a stocking hat vs a cap i think the bill on a cap can make you lift your head off the stock so you can see better sometimes...

my experience cattle in the feed lot/close to home and near but not in shelter belts help pheasants alot cattle in corn stalks really do ruin any marginal cover that was present such as small water ways i have shot very few pheasants where cattle had been run i do not let my renters run cattle...

time for an rant today i was hunting a piece of property i have my truck was parked in a low spot a suburban slowly drives down the gravel road and obviously see a pheasant in my mowed ditch they get out and obviously don't see me they start walking into the filed and i yell "Hey" so i don't get...

check out even marginal private land next to public land owner's often say yes because they are not getting asked alot public birds will often flee the heavy pressured public ground to the close private ground even with less cover you may also get access other ground they have that you don't see

as some one once said on here "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take" occasionally pace out my shot-- sometimes closer and sometimes further than i think it was you have a split sec to make the decision. Only past experience and muscle memory will tell you if it is a makable shot I think...

check out Jimmy Big Time -- still found on U TUBE that's a "real' hunting show first season hunting pheasants in ND was hilarious

I posted this at the end of last season my apologies if you saw it then and are rereading it now getting ready for a new season and getting excited best of luck to everyone of my pheasant hunting peers!!

pheasant forever article: 12 week old released birds-- presumed roosters and into decent habitat 60% survival at 1 week 25% at 1 mo 5-10 % at start of winter spring released hens 50 % get a chance to nest 5-40 chicks per 100 related hens wild hens average 4 chicks per hen...

not sure where you are but in South Dakota we deal with this problem often if there were ever warm season grasses there, it can be recovered by spraying Roundup in spring when the ground is less than 50 degrees doesn't really matter how long ago the warm season grass was there-- the root system...

hen pheasants will parasitize another hens nest to lay eggs thus not all of her chicks are "hers' this makes a case for releasing hot/bred hens in spring -- still a low yield pheasants forever had a recent article that roughly said: released rooster pheasants-- 50% 1 week survival , 25% 1...

i have done all of these; disked, burned ,chemicals, fall spray, spring spray, baled and prayed i have found a burn or haying off in spring then sprayed Roundup before ground is 48 degrees usually before May 1 in SE SD worked the best warm season are dormant and will not be harmed brome will...

pheasant season 2024-2025 "things I learned and question I have!" disclaimer—some of these are true i do own land, so some of these pertain to landownership -You can still farm and leave some for the pheasants -Pheasants don’t need much help but they do need some help -Spray Roundup before...

-i measure my life by the dogs i've had - i am suspicious of people who don't like dogs , but i trust a dog when it doesn't like a person-- bill murray -owing a dog is joyful count down to a heart break -if you need dogs in heaven to be happy, there will be dogs in heaven -you can never have...

pheasants --approximately 35 days a year, give or take a few, for 35 years

I agree 100%. Several of us just hired a local reputable trapper to trap about 2000 acres of CRP and waterways for the next 6 weeks. We understand the fur is not usable as does the trapper. We are paying him for his work, meaning mileage and time. He is excited to do this because he sees it as...