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 ...

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 ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — August marks the start of preseason for not only football but pheasant hunting too, with each generating plenty of excitement among South Dakotans. Every October, an army of ...

Work has me in rural Iowa quite often these days. In the evenings, as the sunsets over endless expanses of corn and soybean fields, I’ll drive gravel backroads in search of giant whitetails. They’re ...

IOWA, USA — As Iowa celebrates a century of pheasant hunting, state wildlife experts say the timing couldn’t be better. The state’s pheasant population is at its highest level in two decades, setting ...

Every state in the U.S. has an upland hunting season. From grouse in Maine to an assortment of non-native pheasants and other birds in Hawaii, America is home to a wide variety of upland birds. While ...

Ring-necked pheasants were first stocked by the Pennsylvania Game Commission in 1915, but populations didn’t significantly increase until after 1923 when laws were enacted establishing bag and season ...

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 ...

Five minutes after the Pennsylvania Game Commission released a couple hundred pheasants into the wild near Loyalhanna Creek on Thursday morning, the crack of the first gunshot echoed across the meadow ...