I live in Southeastern PA and plan on moving to Wisconsin. The areas that I am looking at moving to are Madison, Waukesha or Appleton.

I am interested in learning about the hunting there, mostly the upland bird hunting.

Here in PA I hunt stocked pheasants with my springer (Jackie) on PA State Gamelands along with a thousand other guys. The best way to get any action here is to find out when and where they are going to stock, take the day off of work and hunt (and I use that word "hunt" lightly) after the stocking truck leaves. I have actually seen guys shoot at pheasants that flew off the truck! The next day you may flush 1 or 2 birds and two days later the birds will all be shot, if you don't have a dog forget it. The places that you can hunt here are VERY scarce and severely over hunted. I used to LOVE duck hunting but there is hardly a drop of water that you can hunt over any more.

I am hoping that it isn't the same way in WI. Would someone like to fill me in on the availability of hunting land in those areas?

Are there many wild pheasants in WI?

Can a guy get any duck hunting in without paying $275/day to use someones blind?

Thanks,
Mark