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This has happened to me several times too. It's like they can't figure out one of their own just got blasted in the face by a 12 gauge.

Season A here, which starts Wed April 15.

A foot of snow here. The landscape went from brown to pure white in about 48 hours. And now we'll be below zero tonight again. Guess we're going backwards for a bit. Spring will have to wait.

Yes it does. Some opt for more of a challenge. I try to use every advantage that's legally available to me because I have a hard enough time being successful as it is.

It's not really my preference either. But I do what I have to do to try and be successful.

Bob has gotten to be an exponentially better hunter over the years. I remember when he first started this and constantly struggled. Those days are over, he is an accomplished upland hunter now.

I used to hunt late season years ago when there was a lottery. When I didn't draw season A or B, I'd have to hunt E or beyond. I actually did harvest a couple of birds hunting later in the season. But I would rather be fishing once that season opens so that's primarily why I prefer to turkey...

I bought my spring license the other day when I bought my 2026 angling license. I normally hunt season B here in MN but I have a conflict that time period, so I went with season A which starts on April 15.

Not a whole lot of sport or challenge involved with that

Lol is this a thing? I feel like it would be comical in person.

Pheasants are more susceptible to winter conditions than wild turkeys are. I watched that unfold last December in person right after I quit hunting for the day and started heading home. A mile down the road, after a big snowfall, I saw a large open field with about 100 pheasants and 25 wild...

Hunting season was tough for this guy because of all the snow. I hunt in Central MN and by the third week of November, the snow was already very deep. It was like that through the end of the season. It was very cold in January for about 2 weeks straight but snowfall has tapered off...

I remember when PS first came out about 20 years ago. One box was 10 bucks. It's pretty hard to find them under 25/box now. Same with Wing Shok. And there was a few years where both were very difficult to find. Right after the pandemic started. Panic buyers snatched em all up.

Last couple springs I've seen turkeys, deer, and pheasants all hanging out together on the same field for multiple days like they were peas in a pod.

I use an IC choke on my 12 gauge all season with either Prairie Storm or Wing Shok in #6 shot lead. Most of my shots are 20-30 yards too. Wild birds though, not flare nares. This combination has worked well for me for about 20 years now. I don't really notice much of a difference between...

I'm always astonished as to how much of the countryside has some form of old barb wire. It's in places you'd never expect to see it.

I only use one shotgun for pheasant hunting (its a 12 gauge Benelli). I use a 20 gauge for ruffed grouse hunting. But I only do that about once a season.

Midwest actually has trees too. Prairie does not.

I think it's a simple by-product of more hunters doing it. Deer hunters outnumber everything else combined here. So naturally, the result is going too be more problems. I am not about to approach someone who I think is poaching or trespassing. I'll call an LEO. That's their job, not mine.

Never harvested a "bonus" bird while pheasant hunting. Not once in 25 years. Never even seen a Hungarian partridge even though the daily bag limit here is five. My bonus is taking out a feral cat.