Thinking of a Pheasant Hunt
An ideal location for a pheasant hunt is a dry lake bottom which has a substantial quantity of dead brush and weeds that is about knee to waist high or, inside the edges of grain or corn fields.
The rooster pheasant is the one that you should be hunting. It is always colorfully marked with long reddish-brown tail feathers along with a red and green head. It has a white ring about its neck and has red-orange and black body.
Prior to sunrise pheasants start their day at roost sites. This is usually the patches of knee to waist high grass or weeds, where they have spent the night. At first light they head for some destination to find gravel or grit, which include roadsides, grain fields or similar areas.
They generally begin feeding around 8 am. In a few places shooting hours begin at 9 am when the birds will still be feeding.
By mid-day, pheasants have left the fields for dense, thick cover which can include standing corn fields, brush patches or native grasses. Here they will hunker down until late afternoon. The nastier the weather, the deeper into cover the pheasant will go.
It is difficult to work sizable fields of standing corn, considering that pheasants will run to stay clear of possible predators. When you have a good shot, make certain and mark the spot where the bird fell so it will not be lost on your way to pick it up for the reason that brush and weeds make it difficult to find anything.
Inevitably the pheasant needs to eat again. So, throughout the late afternoon, the pheasants move from their loafing spots returning to the feeding areas and therefore easier to spot.
Following proper safety requirements, pheasant hunting is fun for the whole family.
