British gamekeeper
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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 it's a farm crop, woodland or natural cover such as reed beds or some type of natural growing foliage. I will mainly be writing about man managed crops.
We all know Maize is the good ideal all rounder when It come to drawing in pheasants. Either a 200 acre field planted for a farm harvest or as in the UK, planted in smaller 1-2 acre plots specifically sown to draw in and drive pheasants from.
We have and use an almost endless variation of game cover combinations. Annual and perennial. For Feed, cover, nesting,brooding and driving crops. I will post messages about the different variations of game cover we use and what we use it for. Both for reared and wild pheasants. If you own or rent/lease your hunting ground if you can implement some of the game cover I will mention in one way or another I'm sure it will help improve your population and hope that in turn, it should lead to increasing the number of pheasants you 'put in the bag' as we say in the UK. Please fell free to ask any questions regarding anything I may write about. Also feel free to educate me on any restrictions you have that make my information totally useless! No point writing about it if you can't use it!
Thanks, Jan
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 it's a farm crop, woodland or natural cover such as reed beds or some type of natural growing foliage. I will mainly be writing about man managed crops.
We all know Maize is the good ideal all rounder when It come to drawing in pheasants. Either a 200 acre field planted for a farm harvest or as in the UK, planted in smaller 1-2 acre plots specifically sown to draw in and drive pheasants from.
We have and use an almost endless variation of game cover combinations. Annual and perennial. For Feed, cover, nesting,brooding and driving crops. I will post messages about the different variations of game cover we use and what we use it for. Both for reared and wild pheasants. If you own or rent/lease your hunting ground if you can implement some of the game cover I will mention in one way or another I'm sure it will help improve your population and hope that in turn, it should lead to increasing the number of pheasants you 'put in the bag' as we say in the UK. Please fell free to ask any questions regarding anything I may write about. Also feel free to educate me on any restrictions you have that make my information totally useless! No point writing about it if you can't use it!
Thanks, Jan