I'm not trying to be critical, but it makes me mad when people shoot an animal, and then can't find it. I have no problem with people who hunt without dogs, if they can assure me that they will find 98-100 percent of all the birds they have shot. I have never lost a bird once it was shot, because I have a dog to find it. People have to understand that birds run the second they hit the ground, and if you don't have a dog, you have about a 10 percent chance of findind it. Heres an instance of what I am talking about. When I was 12, me and my dad were pheasant hunting, and we kicked one up, I couldn't shoot, my dad missed, but I saw where it landed. We went to where it was, my dog kicked it up, I shot it, ( my first ever), and we ran immediatly to where it fell. We looked all over for about 15 minutes, and couldn't find it, but my dog kept running off, ( He was 7 months old, and we didn't know what to expect from him ), so finally my dad went to where the dog kept going, and there the rooster was , 65 yards from where I had shot it. This was 4 years ago, I am 16 now, and since that first season, we have shot and recovered over 100 birds, all of which are on public land. For wisconsin that is very good. With out my dog, we wouldn't have found 85-90 prcent of those birds. All I am trying to do is help you out, dogs make it much easier, and, I hate to see wounded or dead pheasants while hunting because of some hunter who either didn't look hard enough with a dog, or didn't have a dog to begin with.

P.S. Please don't use my age against me. I may only be 16, but I know a lot about hunting, and more specifically, about pheasants.