Pheasant Opener: Better Than Numbers Might Indicate
Pheasant opener came early on Saturday after a late night of football coverage, but I don’t like to miss that first minute of legal shooting time at 9 a.m. Not when the conditions are so inviting. The...
View ArticleLate Season Offers Abundance Of Pheasant Hunting Opportunities
For much of October, North Dakota weather was a little of this and a little of that. The fall migration of ducks and geese once again seemed to stay in the northern tier a little longer than hunters...
View ArticleMake The Most Of This Final Month
Each year around this time I begin to stress about how to spend the waning moments of another hunting season as it ticks away. Bow hunting is a passion that consumes my mind 365 days a year, but...
View Article‘That Evening Hunt — That Was Worth The Whole Trip’
MADISON, Minn. — I have come west again, to kill a pheasant. Maybe several pheasants, should our fortune be so good. Gone now, the too-warm early-season days of October. Gone, too, the massive tracts...
View ArticleTo Kill A Pheasant
MADISON, Minn. — I have come west again, to kill a pheasant. Maybe several pheasants, should our fortune be so good. Gone now, the too-warm early-season days of October. Gone, too, the massive tracts...
View ArticleProtecting The Right To Hunt
Some readers might remember Maggie Warren. She was from the Rapid City area, and she was obsessed with preventing our proposed mourning dove season. She went so far as to circulate a petition, collect...
View ArticleOutdoors Notebook: New MN Regulations, ND Dates Set
New pike regulations set for Minnesota anglers Northern pike anglers on Minnesota inland waters will face new regulations beginning with the general fishing opener Saturday, May 12. The new...
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The outlook ahead of the 2017 South Dakota pheasant hunting season was a bleak one. Bird numbers were down 45 percent from 2016, according to the annual survey from the Game, Fish and Parks...
View ArticleNorth Dakota Pheasant, Sharptail Harvests Hold Steady In 2018
North Dakota upland game hunters last year shot similar numbers of pheasants and sharp-tailed grouse as they did in 2017 but bagged fewer Hungarian partridges, the Game and Fish Department said...
View ArticleBrood Count Surveys Will Shed Light On Fall Hunting Prospects In North Dakota
It’s the middle of summer, and hunting seasons are still weeks away. In the meantime, North Dakota Game and Fish Department biologists are busy with their summer upland game and waterfowl brood...
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