How many seasons have you hunted Pheasants?

Gods Speed, Dewey. I Hope and Pray all turns out very well with the health issues for you.......Bob
 
I got digging around my hunting gear tonight. I found I have every hunting license from 1983 to present. So I'm guessng that 1983 was the year my friends got me back interested in pheasant hunting. That would make it 26 years. The hard thing to believe is that I didn't get my own hunting dog until 6 years ago.

My grandfather loved to hunt the ducks and geese and it was great hunting with him. So all the time my grandfather was alive and a few years after that I was focused just on the waterfowl. I know I did some pheasant hunting during these years, but nothing holds the memories like the times I hunted with my grandfather.
 
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Started in 2005, the same year that I got my first gun dog (thanks Ruby!). Until 2002 I had never even SEEN a real live pheasant (because there were none where I lived in Quebec and Ontario) so it's all new to me! Tomorrow morning will mark the start of my fourth season - can't wait! -Croc
 
shot my first pheasant in 1957 at the age of 10 with a lever-action marlin 410.i have hunted every year since. i have hunted pheasant in ks only., but have hunted geese, turkey, quail etc in other states though.
 
First pheasant hunt was in '96 for me. My dad hunted as a kid in SD and never missed an opener other than his time in the Navy, coming up from FL.
 
I had a .410 in the field starting at 7 years old. Couldn't really hit anything for the first few years, but I was out there. 21 years in total. Haven't missed an opener yet, though as I've get older, I like the opener less and less.
 
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Sconnihunter said:
Started hunting pheasants in 1999 at the age of 12 and have hunted every year since in Minnesota and in SD.
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Nice job on that Tom, sir.
 
Nova Scotia Opening Day

crockett said:
Started in 2005, the same year that I got my first gun dog (thanks Ruby!). Until 2002 I had never even SEEN a real live pheasant (because there were none where I lived in Quebec and Ontario) so it's all new to me! Tomorrow morning will mark the start of my fourth season - can't wait! -Croc
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Tell us how opening day went in Nova Scotia.
 
I hunted quail here in Arkansas from the early 60s until there was no longer a huntable population, about 80-81; still try to waterfowl hunt most days of our season here.

But when it comes to pheasant I am a real new boy. Two years ago I was introduced to wild Kansas pheasant and I can't get them out of my mind. I think I would pass up a first rate Colorado elk hunt for one week of chasing them big suckers!

There is nothing better to me than chasing upland birds or waterfowl with a good dog.

Bob
 
I've been waterfowl hunting for about 10 years, and pheasant hunting for the last five - all in Roscoe, SD. I took to duck hunting pretty hard, but wasn't sure how much I'd like pheasant hunting. But there's nothing like South Dakota in the fall. What a great state!
 
I am 40 and this will be my 30th season...Dad took me when I was 10 and was instantly hooked!

First few years I walked the fields and was not allowed to carry a gun until I passed the hunter safety course.

Shot my first quail w/ a 20 gauge single shot.
First pheasant w/ Ithaca model 37...carried that gun for several years.

Growing up in Nebraska was a blessing...great hunting opportunities were close by and most of the land was not posted...

We never missed opening day...from 78 thru 1990

However (like many of you) I now prefer the solitude of late season bird hunting!

BH68
 
its an addiction

If I am not mistaken I killed my first pheasant when I was 12 that would have been 1990, though I am not sure of my exact age (11 or 12) so it would have been 1989 or 1990, I remember the day vividly. In OK the limit on pheasants was one per day then and the limit on quail was 10. I was shooting a Remington 1100 20 with an improved cylinder choke and 7 1/2 shot and I killed nine quail and my first pheasant that day. It was my first day carrying the 20 ga instead of the single shot .410 I carried the few years prior. I was hunting with my dad, my brother, and my uncle. Still my hunting partners today.

In N central OK I walked a ton of miles for very few pheasants for many many years, I think that is why I love it so much now is I worked so hard for so few birds in the past I am glad numbers here have greatly improved and I have better places to hunt.
 
Wow...I am so humbled by all of you. I have only been upland hunting since 1998 when I got my first (of four) German Shorthair Pointers). So, 11 years of running and gunning with dogs. Almost every year to Central SD and then to Central Iowa for a couple of years in the middle.

My goal is to NEVER give up on bird hunting.
 
7 years- when I got my first bird dog. Never had a mentor or anything. Just looked like a ridiculously fun time-I was right. Im a junkie now
 
27 Seasons

There are no pheasants here in SC, but when I was about 13 a friend from our deer hunting club invited my father and me out to Kansas for a week of pheasant hunting. After the longest road trip of my life, we arrived in a strange flat land without trees, Quinter KS. Even though I had hunted deer with dogs for years and fully understood the idea of driving animals to standers, everyone made sure I knew how tough these birds were to hit. Only 15 minutes into the first hunt, a rooster burst out from under my feet and I nailed him. You couldnâ??t wipe the smile off of my face or off my fatherâ??s either. That was 27 years ago, and I can remember it like it was yesterday. About 18 years ago, my uncles started to go out to Mitchell, SD and I have been going every year since. I canâ??t wait until my son is old enough to go.
 
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