An overcast sky, a temperature in the low 30s and a week-old snow that was anything other than pristine made for the ideal conditions for an early-winter pheasant hunt. For the two Labrador retrievers ...

If you have done any pheasant hunting around Central Washington in recent years, you know it can be tough. Gone are the days of seeing 50 to 100 birds during a morning’s hunt. We won’t go into the why ...

Hearing the cackle of a pheasant as it takes flight and enjoying the landscape on a quiet winter’s day, are just a few of the reasons to be hunting across Pennsylvania this time of year. The ...

Anyone who has been around a while knows times and trends change. Hunters still at it have proved flexible enough to accept what they are given and to take what they can get. What they can get are ...

MADISON, MINN. -- Far ahead, we can see the pheasants flushing. First a single, then a couple more. Now, at least a dozen have lit out for the distant cattails. It's December, and these birds have ...

FREEMAN, S.D. - Dogs bound through the switchgrass, hunters in orange caps advance in a row behind them. The sun shines, and even if there aren't many pheasants to shoot, all is right with the world.

Pheasant hunting is a good introduction to bird hunting since it is easy to understand the basics but hard to master. A successful hunt takes patience but not a lot of gear. Early-season pheasant ...

Yahoo Racing is powered by Motorsport Network, providing expert reporting, analysis, and insider access across the world’s top racing series. DISTANT, Pa. ― Thousands of birds feed, fly, cackle and ...

“We’ll flush about 150 birds today,” I told my new friend M.D. as we loaded our guns by his truck. A recent transplant to pheasant country at the time, M.D. raptly surveyed the wide fields, trying to ...