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 ...

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 ...

Steven Reynolds, a free-lance writer who lives in Palmville Township near Wannaska, Minnesota, shared this story of a problematic pheasant rooster that took up residence a few years ago on his ...

The annual opening of Michigan’s pheasant season on October 20 is a revered day for me, and has been since I was a kid. My first memories of hunting are of being in the fields of our farm with ...

A colorful, raucous invasive species made good, the ringnecked pheasant is our most successful wildlife import. Brought to Oregon from China in 1881, the pheasant spread from coast to coast. It became ...

WINDOM, Minn. -- Up ahead on the gravel road, the black pickup slows. A blaze-orange arm emerges from the window, pointing to the ditch. I see them. Perhaps a dozen pheasants, many of them roosters, ...

LINCOLN COUNTY — Determined people settled in western Minnesota 150 years ago, including in this county, which borders South Dakota. Blizzards, mosquitoes, leaky sod huts and the grasshopper invasion ...

Froid, Montana David Christoffersen had a plan. Several mornings over coffee, the Froid, Mont. wheat and cattle farmer watched pheasant hunters unsuccessfully try to corner rooster pheasants. This was ...

The primary pheasant areas showed 28.8 crows per stop in the southwest, up from 19.5 in 2023; 21.5 crows per stop in the northwest, up from 16.6; and 16 crows per stop in the southeast, up from 12.8.