519vx
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Wisconsin's pheasant season ends December 31, so this time of the year I try to get out as much as I can. I love hunting in the snow, the dogs are hunting well, and there are usually few other hunters.
I was contacted a couple of weeks ago by a group that works closely with the Wisconsin state game farm in Poynette where our PHG release birds are raised. They were working with local Pheasants Forever, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, and a local game farm to put on a "Learn to Hunt" program for new pheasant hunters, and were looking for people to volunteer as mentors during the actual hunting portion of the program. The goal is to introduce new people, young or old, to pheasant hunting. They will have "courses" where they expose the people to various aspects of the hunt, from safe gun handling, carrying, and shooting, to flusher and pointer dogs and how they hunt, to trap shooting, then a hunt with 2 planted roosters per new hunter.
I told them that I'd be interested and I heard back today that they do need me there and have assigned a new hunter to me to mentor for the hunt!! For as much as I enjoy all aspects of pheasant hunting and for all the memories I have of good times associated with pheasant hunting, I'm really looking forward to the opportunity to help introduce someone new to our sport.
I was contacted a couple of weeks ago by a group that works closely with the Wisconsin state game farm in Poynette where our PHG release birds are raised. They were working with local Pheasants Forever, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, and a local game farm to put on a "Learn to Hunt" program for new pheasant hunters, and were looking for people to volunteer as mentors during the actual hunting portion of the program. The goal is to introduce new people, young or old, to pheasant hunting. They will have "courses" where they expose the people to various aspects of the hunt, from safe gun handling, carrying, and shooting, to flusher and pointer dogs and how they hunt, to trap shooting, then a hunt with 2 planted roosters per new hunter.
I told them that I'd be interested and I heard back today that they do need me there and have assigned a new hunter to me to mentor for the hunt!! For as much as I enjoy all aspects of pheasant hunting and for all the memories I have of good times associated with pheasant hunting, I'm really looking forward to the opportunity to help introduce someone new to our sport.