Pheasants are located all over the world and possess a variety of colors in their feathers. You will find everything from the white-eared pheasant to the reddish colored Blood pheasant, and anything else you can think of. Pheasants are very selective regarding where they live, they have to have good habitat in the great outdoors to thrive. In some places the bird thrives and others it will not. Bigger predators like famished wild cats really like the taste of pheasant meat in their everyday diet.
It is becoming more common to find pheasant hunting farms across the United States. The farms will raise the young birds till they are big enough to release into the habitat, insuring a strong population for hunting.
A good bird dog will help you find, scare, and retrieve your bird after a successful hunt. It is a fairly wide consensus that Labrador retriever’s make the best pheasant hunting dogs. They are very good at finding birds and retrieving the ones that are downed by birdshot. It takes a good bit of training to train a good bird dog, but once it’s ready to go and experienced, you will want to live in the fields. Some hunters prefer pointers, but not me.
During the hotter times of the year you will find a lot of pheasants congregating around water. They enjoy ponds, creeks, streams, faucets, irrigation areas as well as pumps. I know that in Wisconsin that you can only hunt pheasant from mid-October to the end of the year, so it pays to scout for birds during the warmer parts of the year. When it is time to hunt, you can expect to find the best hunting in the mornings and afternoons of the day. The morning seems to the best time to hunt as pheasant tend to be feeding in the open fields.
It is always a good practice to wait for the birds to settle back down. When you and the dogs arrive they will retreat and hide and come back out after things calm back down. It is important that you have tracking skills and have scouted the area prior to going hunting. On a pheasant farm you don’t have to worry about finding birds as they are often releases just hours prior to your hunt.
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