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Me in my shoot day tweed. It's the estate tweed. Not normally a bright colour. But it's been the family tweed for years.

Is there ever the opportunity for full time employment in the pheasant hunting industry in the US? I understand about hunting guides, but wondered if any large land owners employ full time staff to look after pheasants/game as we do in the UK? Shoot management including managing game plots...

Just a list of some of the game covers we use. Annual and perennial. If you can please try this one though! Chicory. It is a really good all round cover. Nesting,brood and driving all work well from this cover. Don't drill too thick! It will last 3 seasons. Season 2/3 will give the best results...

Just wondered what your most common strain of pheasant? Does it vary from state to state? We have Kansas and Michigan blue backs in the UK. EXTREMELY hard to hold in a certain area. And they will even lead other birds away! A newish strain coming on to the scene in the Uk at the moment is the...

So the main reason we use game cover in the UK is to draw pheasant to a certain area in large enough numbers to produce 'drives' to push birds over standing guns. This applies to reared and wild birds. We also feed the game cover as an extra draw for the birds with whole wheat. This is done by...

Hi from the UK. Please realise I am unaware of any laws or restrictions you may have in the US. This is written from my experience as a gamekeeper in the UK. Game cover is the most manageable habitat that we use in our sport in the UK. So we all use game cover in one form or another. Weather...

Hi everyone. My name is Jan and I'm a professional gamekeeper/deer hunter from the Uk. I work on a 23,000 acre estate where we release 20,000 pheasants and also have a strong wild pheasant population. We also shoot over 500 deer a year. Mostly trophy bucks but also females to control the...