Canned and hunt are two words that when put together do not mean a thing in wing shooting. I grew up with more wild pheasants and even quail that it was incredible. We have them no more due to clean farming and herbicides. This of us who have bird dogs need to have birds for the dogs. The do not know that the birds were released and the hunt is the same to them. I do not hunt pheasants for me I hunt pheasants, quail and Chukar for my dogs, I on't care who gets to shoot the birds on the flush and neither does anyone else in my club. Without birds you do not get good bird dogs. Additionally, the term "canned hunt" was a term used to describe big game animals that are hunted in an enclosure where they have no change of escape, not for bird hunting and I find it appalling as most big game hunters do. Believe me, released birds have as good a chance of flying away as wild ones do.