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 ...

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 ...

Pheasant hunting success is never easy and requires practice at the clay target range to become proficient. Photo courtesy of the late Joe Forma Hunting Photo Collection The New York State Department ...

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 ...

Youth participants return from a pheasant hunt Saturday on Copus Road. From left, Wyatt Eutsler, 11, of Botkins, Dalton Hunsaker, 11, of Lima, Dean Puthoff of Shawnee Township and Elijah Puthoff, 9, ...

“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 ...

Bob Albertson (left) and Josh Burkholder of the Three Rivers Conservation Club (3RCC) are promoting the club's free youth pheasant hunt on Sept. 27 at the Shallow Creek Hunting Preserve at 07599 ...

It's ambitious — some might say even crazy: Three Minnesotans and their dogs will hunt upland birds for five consecutive days in five states — and all on public land. But Anthony Hauck, Andrew Vavra ...

Road-killed animals may not be tagged and possessed with carcass tags issued for the purpose of hunting. Any person who is picking up an animal to be salvaged must comply with all highway rules and ...

This story is reported by South Dakota News Watch, a non-profit news organization. Find more in-depth reporting at www.sdnewswatch.org. MIDLAND, S.D. (SDNW) — No neighboring state is as liberal as ...

Every August, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources hits the road for its annual pheasant survey, tracking population numbers ahead of hunting season.But this year's count carries extra ...