THERESA - We gathered early on Dec. 6, just a tad after dawn. In fact it was earlier than I'd ever joined a group for a ring-necked pheasant hunt. Count that as a record before even uncasing the ...

It’s a sport beloved by kings and queens, one with centuries of tradition for which participants wear custom-made tweeds and tromp across acres of meticulously tended land. Enthusiasts from around the ...

Rooster! Wild Ringnecked Pheasants were not present on the first Thanksgiving Day table. Nor were they on the menu for anyone in North America returning home after the Civil War. It wasn’t until the ...

Before I ever owned a gun dog, I walked up pheasants on the family farm by myself. While I wouldn’t go back to hunting without a dog, I remember the special thrill of dogless hunting: there’s no ...

Hunting pheasants on Fish and Game’s wildlife management areas is a popular fall tradition for upland bird hunters. To support this tradition, pen-raised pheasants are stocked at 24 sites across the ...

The classic pheasant gun is a 12- or 16-gauge repeater, chosen because ringneck pheasants are tough and often found in bunches. When the air is full of cackling roosters, as it commonly was back in ...

I met Billy Roy Wilson many years ago, when he gave me some quotes endorsing Ford Overton's appointment to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. Wilson, who died Oct. 27 at 85, was Overton's lifelong ...

A saving grace for the future of hunting is the involvement of women wishing to get involved in outdoor activities. The fact is, women are the fastest growing demographic in hunting and shooting ...

VICKERY – Purple Heart veterans were honored with a complimentary day of pheasant hunting with the Coon Creek Hunt Club, just because they deserve it. The event was the brainchild of 93-year-old Harry ...

The 100th pheasant season in Iowa opens Saturday and DNR wildlife biologist Todd Bogenschutz says it is setting up to be a good one. “This past year was the fourth mildest winter in state history, ...