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Where you can get it, my favorite length is 29 inches. Have that on a .410 sxs, which helps give a little more heft to such as light gun, but also on my 16 gauge sxs wild pheasant gun, which helps with smooth swings at distance on prairie birds.

Wow! 687 wild roosters taken during the 20024-25 hunting season. https://wildlife.ca.gov/Science-Institute/News/yolo-bypass-wildlife-area-sees-record-wild-pheasant-harvest-at-687-roosters

I would take a look at Upland Gun Company -- https://uplandguncompany.com/ -- and also Fausti -- https://www.faustiusa.com/ -- mentioned above. Both o/u and sxs 16s available from those two makers.

I would choose the BR 552 in 16 gauge -- and then you will have something pretty special on your hands. I own both B. Rizzini and Fausti guns, both are very well-made but the B. Rizzini has just a bit more original flair to it, less of a machine-made feel. At those price points you should also...

I've had a gunsmith file down the action slightly on a new Beretta to loosen it up. Says the Italians like their new guns super stiff. Just sort of a cultural preference.

Huge amount of quality upland habitat at Yolo.

Sorry to hear that Newman. I have not gotten out yet but was expecting or at least hoping for a better report.

Winner, winner, pheasant dinner. It is indeed the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area -- far and away the No. 1 wild pheasant producer in the state. https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=105633&inline Grizzly Island's harvest may be somewhat skewed. Though it has a population of wild...

Anybody know the No. 1 refuge/wildlife area in the state for wild pheasant harvest? Hint: It ain't Gray Lodge. Let's hear some thoughts.

Sorry...Will repost in the CA Forum.

https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=105633&inline Wow ... Still pretty paltry in the grand scheme of things, but by far outclasses every other Sac/San Joaquin public hunting area.

https://cdfgnews.wordpress.com/2017/10/26/wild-pheasant-hunting-season-opener-nears/ Bird dogs. Farm towns. Fall sunsets. Won't be long now before we hear some shouts of "rooster."

I am throwing this out there for next season. Seems like we have a half dozen or so good guys, passionate pheasant hunters using this California forum so.... How about we get together and organize a wild pheasant hunting road trip for next season? Let's pick a part of the country and plan a...

Most of the California wildlife refuges have less water -- and lower hunter quotas -- this season. That will make them harder to get on, but there will be more upland habitat available for hunting theoretically -- or at least available for the birds. Do you expect better pheasant hunting as a...

It sounds crazy on its face......BUT....I am reading and hearing a lot about all the farms leaving a lot of fallow fields this year because they don't have water to farm. There hasn't been this much open, uncultivated farmland in CA in quite some time and may provide a lot of wild pheasant...