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The video of a group hunt I did a few weeks back with some Pro Pheasants members.

Here is Sand Lake on my OnX

As pheasants tend to bunch together, it is a physical reality that there are less pheasants spread around. Whereas a guy might hunt a quarter section in late October and have four or five contacts of a bird or two, those 4-10 pheasants are now likely to be in close proximity to one another...

I used to not wear orange, but finally heeded my dad's persistent advice. Like A5 said, the majority of pheasants don't see Sage and I coming, they hear us. Interesting note, we were hunting with some family a month back and waiting for people and I laid down in the cattails. My daughter came...

Yeah, it's too bad music is copyrighted and will get your account banned on YouTube, otherwise I'd love to have something not from the free music library.

Bob, you can set the tone. Like you, I really don't get excited about party hunting or pushing fields. I do love watching a dog that knows how to hunt pheasants do their thing. I love watching a dog work a property that isn't loaded with birds and there's an art to what is being done. I...

Used to. Then I had enough land to hunt that I didn't need any more and started a family, etc.

I really like it. There are times when I miss having a pickup, but it's so nice to pile in the gear.

I'm sorry to hear that, Bob. When I read the title, I thought you'd stumbled into the mother load. Instead, you ran into a different kind of mother. It blows my mind that someone would do that, especially as it seems this guy assumed that was the way it was done. Sorry you had to experience...

Pen reared pheasants typically wear a blinder to prevent them from pecking one another. It creates a large, visible opening in the nare (nostril) and is one of the more common methods of identifying a pheasant that was raised in captivity.

Sorry for the wind noise, but you know, South Dakota.

I'd bet that the first rooster you bagged got pushed into that spot when you guys were working the rest of the property. Or came in from somewhere else. Your observation is correct, though. There is wisdom in doubling back. A couple years ago, I was hunting one of my favorite properties...

I will agree with that. Blows my mind that we've got not just some pheasants around, but just as many as last fall (perhaps more) after the ice storm, 80+ inches of snow, the typical wind and cold of a SD winter that combined to completely bury countless cattail sloughs. But the pheasants...

Hunting alone with the dog. No greater challenge, no greater satisfaction, no greater enjoyment. For me and for Sage, anyway.

I saw this recently. Done with a turkey's foot, but same principle. Not sure on where to source flesh eating beetles. :)

I can never remember what all I've posted for videos here, but I do a hunt each year in memory of my father-in-law and, once again, had a great outing -

Great work, you three! Nice when the dog cleans up a mess, whether our own or someone else's cripple. When Sage was young, I used to get upset when she'd flush a bird wild, but as time has gone on, I've come to realize that in the one man one dog (or two as the case may be) game, there are...

I was just going to say this. When I grab a pheasant by the back, there is a noticeable difference from the spring of the year to the mature bird. Otherwise, I think it is a lot of guesswork going by tails/spurs. Genetics and nutrition are probably going to play just as much of a role as...

Before switching to bismuth, I shot 3" #2 steel for many years. I settled on that combo after seeing steel #4 just not quite do the trick. While I love the feeling of Sage finding a cripple, I prefer to not have those moments in the field.

Deader is better.