Illinois hunter

Went to Iowa for season opener and saw only 3 birds. Only about 40% of crops were out at the time, but between the hard snows and floods, I dont know if Ill make a return this year. Did anyone else have any success?

sproulman

we have greatest phesant hunting in world here in pa.

i saw 2 phesants for 3 weeks of on and off hunting [:@]

nknute

I dont think anyone had very good success opening weekend. With more of the crops out now we are seeing a lot more birds but still not as many as ususal. what countydid you hunt?

bowhuntn87

yup the iowa opener did suck.... we hunted private land all day and saw only 15-20 birds. 95% of the crops were in at that time. now the hunting is awesome though and like 10% of the crops are still in. i am in the northwest corner of the state, the only place where pheasant numbers in iowa are up this year. once the crops got out the hunting got amazing quickly. best i did this year was limit out after 12 minutes on a crp tract after the corn had been cut beside it. other than that its taken an hour or two.