Pheasant States
12-01-2008, 06:14 PM
#12
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Texas & Oklahoma Panhandles
Posts: 169
RE: Pheasant States
ORIGINAL: RLoving1
I'm down here in lovely west Texas...Odessa.I haven't got to hunt ditch chickens in a couple years,I love seeing the geese and mallards hit burnt corn and the cocks out in middle of winter wheat with sun shining on them! After hunting wild birds no way could I hunt pen rasied birds...just ain't hunting.Nothing like walking 1 mile of fence or ditch and birds flushing in last 25 yards!
I'm down here in lovely west Texas...Odessa.I haven't got to hunt ditch chickens in a couple years,I love seeing the geese and mallards hit burnt corn and the cocks out in middle of winter wheat with sun shining on them! After hunting wild birds no way could I hunt pen rasied birds...just ain't hunting.Nothing like walking 1 mile of fence or ditch and birds flushing in last 25 yards!
i've been hunting pheasants since i was prolly 5 i don't know, its just a way of life for me in the winter. i've never hunted a "game preserve" or ranch or whatever you call em. if it ever gets to that point for me ill call it quits
12-01-2008, 06:21 PM
#13
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 39
RE: Pheasant States
i've been out 3 times this year. twice with a dog and once i just pushed the field. we didn't see anything and we were out all day. i've heard that when they stock the places people follow them in and shoot them as soon as they release them. but this is up in the northeast where they stock the birds.
12-11-2008, 03:38 PM
#16
Fork Horn
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Kenly, North Carolina
Posts: 370
RE: Pheasant States
ORIGINAL: SDarcher
Where are you looking at in SD? I guide for an outfitter in SD. Now that the corn is out the birds have been unreal.
Where are you looking at in SD? I guide for an outfitter in SD. Now that the corn is out the birds have been unreal.
12-16-2008, 08:10 AM
#19
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2004
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Posts: 261
RE: Pheasant States
I would say bird numbers are deffinately still up here in SD. Its especially obvious this time of year now that the crops are out and theres some snow on the ground. The birds are really grouped up now. You can walk a good shelterbelt or slough and see hundreds upon hundreds of birds.