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 ...

Dogs rightly get much of the credit for putting the fun in pheasant hunting, but the birds themselves deserve as much or more. Apart from their nearly unrivaled physical beauty and their status as a ...

In December, it is a rare day I do not hunt pheasants for a few hours, sometimes longer. It is an even more unusual day when my dogs, Duke and Casey, do not sniff out and point at least a half-dozen ...

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, ...

AS WE BOUNCE onto the cornfield aboard the school bus, I’m reminded of the last time my dad and I rode in one of these together. Running school buses is our family business, and when I was a kid, I’d ...

The Michigan pheasant hunting season is getting a big boost with rooster releases at 13 game and wildlife areas throughout the Lower Peninsula. This fall, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources ...