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-Croc

Out here in Nova Scotia the pheasants have been have a terribly hard winter. Every time we get snow it has been followed by rain/freezingrain and then back to quite cold temperatures, so there are multiple layers of very hard crusty snow covering everything. It all fell so wet and heavy that...

Not much terribly new in this video, but the part about getting the tendons out of the legs was news to me, and definitely something that I will try in the future. http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=lbwSGPtLUxw&feature=rec-HM-rn Hmmm, I'm hungry - must be lunch time! -Croc

Here's an unusual question for you all. :) WHat kind of range of hearing do pheasants have? More specifically, can they hear a 'silent' dog whistle? Thanks! -Croc

I'm sad to report that some of "my" spots have been getting pressured harder than ever before this year. One spot in particular I've been seeing lots of guys out there. There's one group of local teenagers, really nice young guys. It's great to see them out there enjoying the outdoors and...

Well, Ruby and I put in three hard hours of pheasant hunting yesterday after work. The area has been hunted fairly regularly since the opener, but it was quiet yesterday. Conditions were perfect for scent and I was hopeful... The best way that I can sum up the day is that it was a like a...

I decided that I should sneak out this morning to see if I could rouse a few roosters. Things started slow, just a few woodcock around but I decided not mangle them with #4. After a half-hour or so we had to cut through some nasty alders and I thought to myself "Here I am all tangled in the...

My 3 year old yellow lab bitch was doing fine with flushing pheasants until this past season, when she caught two crippled hens that other "hunters" had crippled. Something tripped in her little brain after that happened and she started chasing flushed hens and missed roosters as long as she...

Well, until 2007 my all-time success rate at pheasant hunting was ONE ROOSTER. Things started to come together with finding spots, learning about habitat/behaviour, training the dog and wingshooting. I got 9 roosters in all, and more importantly, I had a wonderful time! I even got a few...

If you do much training alone, like I do, you might be interested in this. I wanted to work on steadying my lab a bit this year. Last year I had her perfectly steady with hand-thrown bumpers, but when a hen would flush and fly across a field in plain vision or in real waterfowl hunt situations...

First off, my apologies if this is considered unethical or anything like that (and please say so if it is - I'd like to know). I have a few decent pheasant hunting spots on public and private land and I'd like to do what I can to help the local pheasant population that I harvest. Last year I...

Hi everyone, Just thought I'd drop in for a quick hello. I hunt pheasant (as well as ruffed grouse and waterfowl) anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours from my home in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I got away from hunting due to my living and financial situation during university, but started getting...