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I had the dogs out one more time before shutting them down for a couple of months. It won't be long before the animals will be nesting and I don't want to disturb them. Blitz is in there: A closer picture: The find: I heard some roosters crowing in the distance but the hen was the only...

The Susquehanna Valley Chapter of Pheasants Forever will have a sporting clays fun shoot on May 17th at Starview Sportsmen's Club. Come out for a good time. We will have prizes to give out and some auction items including a pheasant hunt or two.

Anybody going out fishing tomorrow? I'll be out with my two boys and I hope to hear some rooster cackles again this year.

I took the dogs out to see what kind of birds we could find. It didn't take long and Blitz had a rock solid point in the remains of the food plot. (I'm not too bright sometimes and I didn't bring the good camera) I switched to phone to video as I walked up. For some reason I must have...

Once per year I like to take the dogs out to Onpoint Outfitters for a hunt. It's nice to see a different area and get the dogs on some birds. I had a few birds put out but there were plenty of extras for the dogs to find. We put up about 15 pheasants (had 3 put out) and 8 quail (had 10 put...

I took a look at next year's school calendar and it looks like I'll have some time to travel for a bird hunt. I can leave Dec. 26 and have about 7 or 8 days to be gone. But the question is where to go? I never traveled out of state so I'm looking for ideas. Quail in the southwest? ND or SD...

Anybody go to the Outdoor Show in Harrisburg this year? We went up today and I picked up a couple prints to get framed. Got a grouse print that came with a conservation stamp to go along with a pheasant one I got a couple years ago. I also got a quail print while I was there. The boys did...

It's been snowing for a while now and the wind is picking up. We expect to get around 8-12 inches of snow and then wind chills of -15 to -20 at night. I think the pheasants I've been seeing can handle it but I'm not sure about the quail that I've been finding. I think this storm and cold...

This time of year I have no choice but to run the dogs on Sunday and shoot with the camera. It was sloppy out there today but the dogs enjoyed the run and I was provided with some good opportunities to get some pictures. The dogs found these 5 birds pretty quickly Here are some close ups of...

2014 Wild Pheasant Flushing Surveys Hegins-Gratz Valley & the Central Susquehanna Wild Pheasant Recovery Areas Annual Flushing Surveys gather data on wild pheasants released in Wild Pheasant Recovery Areas. This is the 3rd year for flushing surveys in the Hegins-Gratz WPRA in Schuylkill and...

Rifle season for deer is finally over and we can get the dogs back out. I went out to see how the cover held up to the snow and ice. It got knocked down for sure but it can still provide protection for the animals. Here are a few pictures to compare: Cover in early fall Same area today...

when the cover looks like this... I could see the fox tracks lead to the feathers. You can see where the fox made the tackle. I went to throw some food out in the place I last saw some quail. I know the ice can do a number on the little birds. I saw plenty of tracks for deer, fox and...

On November 16, 2013 the Susquehanna Valley Chapter of Pheasants Forever held it's fourth Veterans Hunt at Mason Dixon Hunting Farm. Everybody enjoyed some donuts, learned about PF, received a certificate from the PA House of Representatives and then headed to the fields to hunt. Everybody got...

http://news.yahoo.com/secret-dirty-cost-obamas-green-051200204.html Article that touches on the loss of CRP and grasslands.

I wasn't quite sure of the best place to put this but thought more people would see it here. Susquehanna Valley Chapter of Pheasants Forever recently (November 11, 2013) made a donation to the Independence Fund to help in the acquisition of an all terrain wheelchair for wounded veterans...

Today the Susquehanna Valley Chapter of PF held it's annual youth hunt at Central Penn Sporting Clays. Ten young hunters got a chance to practice shooting on clays, review safe hunting and have some good food before hunting the fields. We had 7 boys and 3 girls come out for the hunt and...

The new pheasant season is soon here for us PA hunters. What plans does anybody have for the year? Anybody going out of state? The season will start for the dogs this Saturday. I helped put a youth hunt together for a local sportsman's club for 6 young hunters. This is the first time we...

I've been wondering how the PA Quail Plan was coming along and I saw this today: QUAIL MANAGEMENT GIVEN BOOST Commissioners vote to route $250,000 from lease agreement to efforts outlined by plan. The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners hope to jumpstart the state?s quail management...

The cool weather made for a nice evening to work the dogs and get them some exercise. I took them to an area that holds some liberated pheasants and quail. Both Nittany and Blitz got some good work in on the running pheasants. They both had some points but sometimes the pheasants flushed...

The dogs had a good 45 minute run this evening. Some hen pheasants were released in the area a few hours before I got to run the dogs and they managed to get some good work in. Nittany and Blitz found the first hen pretty quickly before it flushed out of the switchgrass. No chance for a...