The annual opening of Michigan’s pheasant season on October 20 is a revered day for me, and has been since I was a kid. My first memories of hunting are of being in the fields of our farm with ...

At its core, pheasant hunting is a simple pursuit. You, plus maybe a couple of buddies, and a dog tromp through the uplands and lowlands flushing roosters. You walk until you shoot your limit and then ...

The primary pheasant areas showed 28.8 crows per stop in the southwest, up from 19.5 in 2023; 21.5 crows per stop in the northwest, up from 16.6; and 16 crows per stop in the southeast, up from 12.8.

WINDOM, Minn. -- Up ahead on the gravel road, the black pickup slows. A blaze-orange arm emerges from the window, pointing to the ditch. I see them. Perhaps a dozen pheasants, many of them roosters, ...

Longtime pheasant hunting enthusiast Roger Hoekstra of Manchester provides the following account of his successful pursuit of a rooster last weekend through the fresh snow that blanketed northeast ...