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I went trolling at the Deep Water Channel and a hen and a rooster free flew up out of cover along that Channel and landed again. That's twice as many pheasants as I saw last year in Calif. and that actually includes two days dove hunting this year on refuges. Like I said about statistics, that's...

Describes what's gone wrong with the pheasant population in the Central Valley anyway. https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=106141&inline

I guessed this would be the place to put this. It shows what their study found and suggested actions. Calif. pheasants are in the tank. Much worse than almost anyplace else with historic good numbers. https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=106141&inline

A friend joined a pheasant Co-Op with 16,000 acres of land committed to the program north of Sacramento. We drove around looking at a large percentage of it covering more than 150 miles on the odometer. Saw scalped fields with one ranch hand spraying the only 15 plants of orchard grass remaining...

I recently returned from 13 days away in Montana. For 12 nights I camped out and was struck by something that has to be experienced to be appreciated. For 5 of the 12 I was probably 10 miles away from even a ranch's yard light and at least 50 miles from even a small towns lights. The rest of the...

First, I make no representation about the truthfulness of what I was told but the person who told me this seemed credible. I believe everyone until proven otherwise. This occurred in a stubble field in MT. He said his son works for a company in Wis. that raises 100,000 pheasants for shipment to...

I'm sure nobody who is a member of this site or who reads these posts would do this but hunters using the BMAs in eastern Montana are behaving like pigs and things are changing as a result. Where there used to be big signs posted in the small towns saying, "Hunters Welcome" those signs are gone...

The first flight of 50-75 Sandhill Cranes flew over our house in Auburn heading west to the valley. I hope there's going to be something for them to eat and drink when they get there. Given how long it took them to elect a new leader twice just over our house it may be November by the time they...

I shot three chokes and distances yesterday at small pieces of paper with 3/4 oz. of #7 steel dove loads and found some things out but not everything. If you're shooting birds at 20 yds. with any load with 300+ pellets, Imp.Cyl is too tight. Either try a Skeet tube, wait for more distance or...

Nothing to do with pheasant hunting but I see that the movie "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" is playing on the Turner Classic Movies channel on our cable provider this Sunday at 8:30 am. It was filmed in 1944 and the scenes they show in the movie after Van Johnson's plane has dropped its bombs and...

I've bought one every year since they became available for the wildlife areas but last year was the first time I didn't go enough to make it worth while. You have to go to 10 wildlife areas to make it be a little better than break even compared to 2 day passes. In the past I've gone to as many...

Actually, they were doves. Lately, I've been seeing a lot more than in the past few years and a bunch of Collared Doves around Oroville. Have others seen more too? Steel only for doves on the wildlife areas this year and statewide for pheasants and similar sized birds next season except on bird...

Unfortunately, it was in a riparian area at the Diamond Oaks Golf Course in the middle of all the housing development in Roseville. Still, it was a crowing rooster.

This year non-toxic shot will be required for all hunting on the Calif. state wildlife areas. I've found a few boxes of #7 steel shot to use for doves. Has anyone shot small birds like doves or quail with #7 steel? I've shot mallards with #6 steel but man it was a very narrow and pretty close...

Calisdad forwareded this to me from Pheasants Forever. I hope he doesn't mind if I post it here. Attention Pheasants Forever Supporters, We need your help keeping Montana?s wildlife, hunting and fishing heritage intact. HB 403 was passed by the Montana House of Representatives on Tuesday and...

calisdad, a UPH forum member and friend, sent this news to me that he received from Pheasants Forever. The Montana Assembly passed a law withholding funds from DFWP for habitat funding. I hope this doesn't get through the process and becomes law. Attention Pheasants Forever Supporters, We need...

I played golf yesterday on a course west of Nicolaus. It's located right next to the Lower Feather River just before it dumps into the Sac. After the game my friend and I drove down the river road to the mouth and then back across the farm land to Lincoln. The river was so low there were exposed...

It's the off season and California will be going to all non-toxic for everything soon so I decided to do a simple test of penetration of the Blind Side hex shot ammo. Intuitively I thought it had to be worse than round shot because of the chance of getting a flat side hitting the target. I...

I flew back into Sac from Dallas (don't ask) over the Sierras on a line from just south of Emerald Bay to Colfax and across the Sierras at one of the areas that should be covered with deep snow. There was just a skim of snow on the highest peaks and lakes that should be beneath 20' of snow were...

Feb. 13 and the first flight of Sandhill Cranes flew over my house heading NE toward Freezeout Res. near Great Falls where a significant number of the cranes that winter here apparently come from. I guess a month to get there unless snow slows them up and they hang around someplace.