Recent content by Swagdaddy

Although I personally like to sit out opening weekend in South Dakota and Kansas, many hunters enjoy the tradition that often comes with it. What are some tips and advice for opening day to help make it a success?

Continuing with strategies and tips on hunting roosters in different conditions, what is some advice for success when hunting in unusually warm, early season weather.

After watching the Masters golf tournament today and hearing the announcers talk about the importance of knowing the course conditions, I thought to start a thread on hunting pheasant in various weather conditions. First up- hunting in 25 MPH plus wind conditions. Okay guys, let's hear some of...

Las Vegas checking in at 59 degrees. My son in Jackson,MS said it's 28 degrees there.

Thanks goldenboy for your transparent and extremely important piece of advice. Rejoicing with you and your family that you'll be around longer! As a former professional athlete, I can resonate with listening to your body. Unfortunately, I closed my ears to what it was saying on my trip to South...

You are so right, mgorvi, wind is your friend if you understand how pheasants react in it. I learned a major lesson this year. On that day of hunting in steady 35-40 MPH wind, we had worked a little dry ditch next to corn. As we finished the drive, we had stopped and were talking about our...

Keep it coming fellas. Good to see the heavy hitters of this blog responding. I feel like I'm a undergrad student at Pheasant University!

A5 Sweet 16... you're the man! I'll be following your comments this spring and summer as I gain new knowledge on those wiley SD roosters. I hunted in this magical state last year for the first time and plan on going back next year. I would love to hear from you other seasoned ( or like me, just...

"What is one thing you learned this year that will make you a better pheasant hunter next year?" I'll start. On a hunt in Northwestern Kansas in mid January this year, the wind was steady at 35 MPH and gusting to 50 MPH. I knew they would be in cedar tree windbreaks, which they were. I learned...

Encouraging to hear s.davis and akp had good hunts. Glad to hear it guys. Here's my report from hunting Northwest Kansas last Thursday and Friday. My son and I killed 8 roosters. It was maybe the toughest conditions I've ever hunted in! The wind blew consistently 30-35 mph and gusted to 50-55...

I certainly hope Kansas never stops being one of the top states for pheasant hunting! I'm a native Californian who fell in love with Kansas while living in Colorado Springs for 11 years. Believe it or not, we used to kill pheasants regularly in the Central Valley of CA. But when they began to...

I agree Wireworld, not as many birds this year as in years past. The odd thing I have noticed this year is that when you find birds, they seem to be more bunched up then most years. I'm not sure if the reason is there is less cover due to not much rain last spring and summer and the places that...

I'm a first time poster and twenty year pheasant hunter in Kansas. I've noticed a lot of talk and some disagreement on the laws and public land debate on this forum. I don't know enough about those things to comment, but I do want to share my view on the actual hunting there. I checked off a...

On my first trip to SD last week, I must have seen 100 plus pheasants fly into to a large cattail section with ankle deep water. Do any of you venture out to hunt these kind of areas before the freeze? If so, do the birds hold pretty good in this kind of cover?

Okay BritChaser, I'm glad you brought up cattails. I saw on one day over 100 birds fly from a plowed cornfield to a cattail section right at dark. Obviously, that's where they're roosting. Here's my questions: 1) If a solo hunter without a dog goes out into a big patch of cattails, do the birds...