bobeyerite
New member
I agree with the other on here that think and like PDJ. I have taken it for years and When I renew my sub. it is always for 3 years. I hope I live that long........Bob
New Regulations?
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FCSpringer
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I think Landman hit the nail on the head, no cover no birds.
2LeggedBirddog
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Pheasant management
1. Pen raised- Primarily released on guided hunting grounds for private hunts. They don't make it through the winter unless they make it back to the pen which many do by instinct. The practice is so common that many ranches advertise that they have wild birds- thus the big numbers as profit drives the numbe of birds released. Many states stopped releasing birds into the wild years ago due to the high mortality rate. The best possible outcome is to find a recent nest or soon to hatch nest and drop your chicks their with the hope the hen takes them in like a banty chicken and gives them survival instincts. You can't be that careful if you are releasing millions of birds and they must have wild skills to survive, regardless of what size they were released at.
2. Ditches- Besides specialized habitat areas, the biggest boost is to keep your ditches dirty until after the chicks feather out. They live, feed and die in the ditch in crop areas. Farming to the road is even worse; that's a pheasant desert even in SD. It's takes a smart farmer that is dedicated to something bigger and better not to mow their ditch for a couple extra bales early in the summer and you don't often see that outside of SD.
3. Predators- Predators are competitors in SD and they get eliminated. Barn cats stay in the yard or they are fair game. If it walks/flys and eats pheasants, it dies, period. In other places you compete with "furry and feathered friends", become "part of the natural eco-system" and participate in somebody else's idea of a good time out in the field which usually involves a camera if they approve of you being there at all. The number of pheasants increases greatly as the number of 7.5 shot .410 shells pile up.
1. Pen raised- Primarily released on guided hunting grounds for private hunts. They don't make it through the winter unless they make it back to the pen which many do by instinct. The practice is so common that many ranches advertise that they have wild birds- thus the big numbers as profit drives the numbe of birds released. Many states stopped releasing birds into the wild years ago due to the high mortality rate. The best possible outcome is to find a recent nest or soon to hatch nest and drop your chicks their with the hope the hen takes them in like a banty chicken and gives them survival instincts. You can't be that careful if you are releasing millions of birds and they must have wild skills to survive, regardless of what size they were released at.
2. Ditches- Besides specialized habitat areas, the biggest boost is to keep your ditches dirty until after the chicks feather out. They live, feed and die in the ditch in crop areas. Farming to the road is even worse; that's a pheasant desert even in SD. It's takes a smart farmer that is dedicated to something bigger and better not to mow their ditch for a couple extra bales early in the summer and you don't often see that outside of SD.
3. Predators- Predators are competitors in SD and they get eliminated. Barn cats stay in the yard or they are fair game. If it walks/flys and eats pheasants, it dies, period. In other places you compete with "furry and feathered friends", become "part of the natural eco-system" and participate in somebody else's idea of a good time out in the field which usually involves a camera if they approve of you being there at all. The number of pheasants increases greatly as the number of 7.5 shot .410 shells pile up.