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 ...

The recent October pheasant season here in the Thumb proved to be outstanding for my hunting guests and me, with plenty of wild birds and shooting opportunities. This, of course, left me quite ...

If you have done any pheasant hunting around Central Washington in recent years, you know it can be tough. Gone are the days of seeing 50 to 100 birds during a morning’s hunt. We won’t go into the why ...

An overcast sky, a temperature in the low 30s and a week-old snow that was anything other than pristine made for the ideal conditions for an early-winter pheasant hunt. For the two Labrador retrievers ...

MCCLUSKY, N.D. -- We had hardly left the truck on this October afternoon when Chance, a 19-month-old Brittany, congealed into a rigid point in the ditch along the road. There was no doubt that a ...

From small Munsterlanders to English setters and Labrador retrievers, a veritable kennel’s worth of dogs scampered across southern Minnesota Saturday, the opening day of the state’s pheasant season.

LUDDEN, N.D. - The scene made Ernie Mathias smile. As a trio of hunters and a yellow Labrador worked a series of small cattail sloughs, a farmer combining corn nearby rousted dozens of roosters and ...

AS WE BOUNCE onto the cornfield aboard the school bus, I’m reminded of the last time my dad and I rode in one of these together. Running school buses is our family business, and when I was a kid, I’d ...

NEAR DEVILS LAKE -- Tad Schmidt had one of the most enjoyable hunts anyone could ask for last Saturday morning, and he wasn't even carrying a gun. It was the opening morning of North Dakota's two-day ...

In the world of pheasant hunting, there is no more hallowed ground than that of the Paul Nelson Farm, 5,000 acres of paradise for shotgunners and their bird dogs. In previous visits to this bird ...