O.K. I have now addressed a poster, actually two, who wanted to know how to hunt pheasants in Connecticut! Well I have very little idea except I remember I saw somewhere they stock birds. I told them that. Them in 5 seconds to assuage my curiosity, I looked up Connecticut Department of Energy and Environment, known as DEEP.... Amazingly, it has a fairly simple website with public hunting/wildlife areas to hunt, also a link to how many pheasants they stock, pheasant stamp you need, etc. My response is recorded, I will not say it here! Paradox, we need new blood, both in the sport, and in this sight, problem is how do we do it? I don't remember anyone encouraging me to go hunting, but know body discouraged me, we had farmers and they had quail, doves too. If these guys do not have the initiative to go forward and learn by hard knocks, are we wasting our time? I have made a lot of effort to bring hunters along, youth hunters are worth the effort even if the wander away, they might come back down the road, in any case, they have a positive view point of what we do. The guys in Connecticut, are never going to be a competition to me, and less #$%@ freezes over to get me there! Does it hurt? well I gave some advice to Canadian who wants to got to Montana, well it didn't hurt me but it sure might hurt the Montana sportsmen! Maybe some filter to make sure we have some idea of who these people are, before they ask questions, like a number of posts, plus an introduction at least? The sport of hunting was policing yourself, there were guys who had a gun, we considered poor sportsmen and would not associate with, certainly not hunt with them. maybe we should be forthcoming and guide these people, educating them about the sport. Or maybe I'm not just old, I am cantankerous and crotchy too!