I enjoyed putting down the bow for a few days and picking up a shotgun. And now I can say that I have shot a pheasant. It took three years, and more misses than I would like to admit, but I got one. A ...

Anyone who has been around a while knows times and trends change. Hunters still at it have proved flexible enough to accept what they are given and to take what they can get. What they can get are ...

BROKEN BOW — The Nebraska One Box Pheasant Hunt didn’t celebrate its golden anniversary this year because of pheasants. The hunt allows five-member teams just one box of shells — meaning each gunner ...

“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 ...

Hearing the cackle of a pheasant as it takes flight and enjoying the landscape on a quiet winter’s day, are just a few of the reasons to be hunting across Pennsylvania this time of year. The ...

Hunting is allowed between sunrise and sunset daily and is prohibited on Sundays. Blaze orange is required when hunting in any areas with pheasant or quails are stocked and during shotgun season for ...

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 ...