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anybody been on a pheasant hunt???

treadlok97treadlok97 Member Posts: 451 ✭✭✭
edited November 2007 in General Discussion
I am from nc and a friend and I are talking about going on a pheasant hunt. Has anyone been and can give some help on were to go and when to go? I have never been and have not hunted anything in about 20 years. I just buy guns and shoot skeet. I would like to try it and just wanted so info(help). What states have alot of pheasant and were to you go for a guide. How much?
Thanks
Shannon
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  • cowdoccowdoc Member Posts: 5,847 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    What are Pheasants?.........LOL

    S.Dak is the Pheasant capitol of the world.
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  • Turbo72Turbo72 Member Posts: 432 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    South Dakota is probably the best state with lots of birds. Kansas is good too. I am from Nebraska and our bird population has been down for a few years but you can still find birds. There are also private ranches that you can hunt that have their own private population of birds that they raise themselves.
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  • duckhunterduckhunter Member Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    South Dakota. Spend the money and have a great time. Most fun you can have with your shoes on.
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  • treadlok97treadlok97 Member Posts: 451 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Who have you used or were did you stay?
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  • riderrider Member Posts: 1,528 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ground sluiced my first big old rooster when I was eight years old. He was sticking his head up out of a patch of bermuda grass and I couldn't hear anything but my heart beating like a drum. I was hooked for life......[:)][:)]
    rider
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  • ww2buff9067ww2buff9067 Member Posts: 472 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    There are a bunch of resorts around here that offer hunting packages, just google pheasant hunting resorts and see what you come up with. Bet you'll find a bunch.

    Cheers,

    Mike
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  • elkoholicelkoholic Member Posts: 5,130
    edited November -1
    I went to Kansas twice a year for several years. Only had 1 or 2 great hunts but we always had a good time. I always wanted to try South Dakota.
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  • cowdoccowdoc Member Posts: 5,847 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    resorts that have hunting would be just like walking into the chicken coop and shooting birds.... or do you want to hunt the wild ones?
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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,494 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    How would they taste deep fried in a turkey cooker? Been about 25yr since I ate one? I have shot exactly one bird.
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  • pitbud5pitbud5 Member Posts: 1,276 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Used to hunt with my Dad when I was a kid back in Illinois. The land once was loaded with birds. Since we moved out of that part of the country side the coyote and fox have or will kill off most of the birds before they are even hatched. Wish I could go back and take it back over
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  • XXCrossXXCross Member Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You haven't hunted in twenty years? STAY HOME! Shoot skeet.
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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,494 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by XXCross
    You haven't hunted in twenty years? STAY HOME! Shoot skeet.


    Sorry , I hunt all the time. NO pheasants in SC. Shot the only one in northern Indiana while quail hunting. It took off like a rocket and flew like the wright brothers. Things can run fast.. Dog brought it back around for a flyby shot. I had a 1100 remington 20 gauge and only 8's for quail. Not good , had to shoot it twice.
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  • oldemagicsoldemagics Member Posts: 5,846 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    around here you couldnt walk 50 feet through a standing field without flushing a bird when i was a kid...
    now it is rare even to hear one call[V]
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  • HandgunHTR52HandgunHTR52 Member Posts: 2,735
    edited November -1
    As has been posted, South Dakota is the place to go. Be prepared to pay some $$$ for it though. It isn't all that cheap. For a good deal, try North Dakota or Southern Minnesota and Iowa as well. They all have pretty good hunting. Make sure that whoever you book with has private property that they hunt. This ensures that you don't end up booking with someone that hunts the same public land that the locals shot out the week before.
    If you plan on hunting late in the season, a 12 gauge with heavy #4's are almost a must because those things aren't going to flush close.
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  • easygo6easygo6 Member Posts: 1,465 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    In SW Ohio, the State game dept. releases Pheasant into game lands. I would expectthat these birds do not sit as tight as wild birds. It was a great hunt though...been twice. As per previous posts, if you want a real experience, stick with those states that have wild populations...better have a good dog or be willing to 'kick 'em up under your own horsepower' (expect heavy brush, blown downs, and briars).
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  • TooBigTooBig Member Posts: 28,559 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Born and raised shooting Pheasants in Kansas and this is the first year I can remember not going since I was in the army 40 years ago. Kansas is going the way of the lease land and getting harder to hunt.Kansas has a lot of walk in hunting but you need a Army to hunt the big fields.
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  • Sav99Sav99 Member Posts: 16,037 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I've bird hunted all my life, though we don't have nearly as many as we did years ago. You'll have a great time.


    pheasantflush.jpg
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  • FrancFFrancF Member Posts: 35,279 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Haven't been in a few years. CA. rice fields are the best![^][:D]
    Has anyone hunted Richvale or S.Sutter clubs lately?
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  • sarge_3adsarge_3ad Member Posts: 8,387 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    When I was a kid here in southern Iowa, we could make our daily quota by noon. It was alot of fun and everyone looked forward to opening day. Today you have to walk your butt off and if you are lucky you may jump a hen. I believe the numbers have dropped so much because of CRP land , and predators such as the redtail hawk and coyotes. There aren't any shortages of those here.
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  • Sav99Sav99 Member Posts: 16,037 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by sarge_3ad
    When I was a kid here in southern Iowa, we could make our daily quota by noon. It was alot of fun and everyone looked forward to opening day. Today you have to walk your butt off and if you are lucky you may jump a hen. I believe the numbers have dropped so much because of CRP land , and predators such as the redtail hawk and coyotes. There aren't any shortages of those here.



    The main reason for the pheasant decline is the changes seen in agriculture. Farmers now plow in the fall opposed to the old method of plowing in the spring. Not much food and cover over the winter for the birds now days.
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  • sarge_3adsarge_3ad Member Posts: 8,387 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by sav99
    quote:Originally posted by sarge_3ad
    When I was a kid here in southern Iowa, we could make our daily quota by noon. It was alot of fun and everyone looked forward to opening day. Today you have to walk your butt off and if you are lucky you may jump a hen. I believe the numbers have dropped so much because of CRP land , and predators such as the redtail hawk and coyotes. There aren't any shortages of those here.



    The main reason for the pheasant decline is the changes seen in agriculture. Farmers now plow in the fall opposed to the old method of plowing in the spring. Not much food and cover over the winter for the birds now days.


    I respectfully disagree with you as most farmer around here use no-till methods. Plenty of food source, but an over abundance of predators.
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  • cowdoccowdoc Member Posts: 5,847 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sarge crp is good for pheasants.....if you have racoons in large number then you will have no pheasants racoons pry the hardest thing on pheasants imho ...for couple years we was over run with * pheasant numbers was way down because of it we got really hard on the * now numbers are good again....ie with a three mile radius we killed around a hundred racoons one summer and fall
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  • buschmasterbuschmaster Member Posts: 14,229 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    hunting pheasant with a 12 ga. O/U and a bird dog is about the best sport there is, imho.
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  • tomahawktomahawk Member Posts: 11,826
    edited November -1
    tredlock, northern nebraska , south dakota are the places to go. when i was young 2 buddies and myself would go up and hunt on a landowners land privately guided by him for 750.00 for two days. thats 250.00 apiece. good hunts pheasant and chuckar, well worth it, spend the money and find a private landowner or farmer. put ads in the paper where your going or post on hunting sites[;)][:D]
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  • owen219owen219 Member Posts: 3,799
    edited November -1
    Went to a sportmans seminar put on by the department of natural resources. They had proof that the granulized fertilizer that farmers use now has killed most of the pheasant populations. The birds picks it up for gizzard grit and it eats its way through the gizzard and bird killing it. Very potent killing power on birds. Farmers don't want to hear this and want to deny this occurs so it is not heard of much because they are the ones to give us permission to hunt also. Nearly all farmers now use this time release granular fertilizer. Pheasants began disappearing about the time this stuff became available. And people wonder why they don't have them like they used to. I used to raise about 300 pheasants each year and they are extremely sensitive to enviornment and disease.
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  • Sav99Sav99 Member Posts: 16,037 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by sarge_3ad
    quote:Originally posted by sav99
    quote:Originally posted by sarge_3ad
    When I was a kid here in southern Iowa, we could make our daily quota by noon. It was alot of fun and everyone looked forward to opening day. Today you have to walk your butt off and if you are lucky you may jump a hen. I believe the numbers have dropped so much because of CRP land , and predators such as the redtail hawk and coyotes. There aren't any shortages of those here.

    The main reason for the pheasant decline is the changes seen in agriculture. Farmers now plow in the fall opposed to the old method of plowing in the spring. Not much food and cover over the winter for the birds now days.


    I respectfully disagree with you as most farmer around here use no-till methods. Plenty of food source, but an over abundance of predators.





    My mistake then sarge, I assumed that fall plowing began everywhere about the same time. It became the standard practice here in the 70's to 80's.
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  • Warpig883Warpig883 Member Posts: 6,459
    edited November -1
    I was dodging them on the road this morning on the way home from church. Danged flying rats anyway! Course they are danged good eating flying rats. Between the pheasants and deer it is hard to keep a windshield and a grill in the car!

    Just another day in SD[:D]
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  • A J ChristA J Christ Member Posts: 7,534 ✭
    edited November -1
    Grew up in South Dakota, have family there and own land there.

    Been hunting ring necks a time or two.

    They are good to eat but get old in about a week, just so many ways to cook them.
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  • headzilla97headzilla97 Member Posts: 6,445
    edited November -1
    A guy I know has been releasing them on my grandmothers farm in NY for the past 2 years now. Best things in the world to hunt for My beagle loves it more than me though. Now the realeased birds are starting to breed and have young ons last summer I saw a mother with a bunch of young ones picking up grit along the road
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  • Sav99Sav99 Member Posts: 16,037 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Heres a photo of the old guy.
    ringneck.jpg
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  • cowdoccowdoc Member Posts: 5,847 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by owen219
    Went to a sportmans seminar put on by the department of natural resources. They had proof that the granulized fertilizer that farmers use now has killed most of the pheasant populations. The birds picks it up for gizzard grit and it eats its way through the gizzard and bird killing it. Very potent killing power on birds. Farmers don't want to hear this and want to deny this occurs so it is not heard of much because they are the ones to give us permission to hunt also. Nearly all farmers now use this time release granular fertilizer. Pheasants began disappearing about the time this stuff became available. And people wonder why they don't have them like they used to. I used to raise about 300 pheasants each year and they are extremely sensitive to enviornment and disease.





    every time it think i have heard it all.......guess i haven't....LOL
    i buy and use fertilizer by the semi loads.....i can get my limit of pheasants in minutes....ROFLMAO.....no offence to you but the S H EE T people can come up with to smack a farmer in the balls with, never fails to amaze me
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  • treadlok97treadlok97 Member Posts: 451 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hey guys Thanks for all the info but does anyone have a name of a place or person that is good?????
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  • FrancFFrancF Member Posts: 35,279 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I am other other coast but the advice is universal[:D] Start scouting fields for next year! Get to know large land owners that open to private groups or people (offer a fee to hunt prime property and follow the rules to a T that helps[;)]). Think Rice, Wheat, Grain fields that are near clubs.
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  • Warpig883Warpig883 Member Posts: 6,459
    edited November -1
    Do you have a specific town you want to hunt by? Are you partial to wild birds or preserve pen raised birds? How much do you want to spend-you can get a hunt for $100 with no frills or $10000000000000 where they pick you up at the airport with a limo.

    Here is one I know of people seem to like. Very nice lodge and bells and whistles. Kind of spendy for me.
    http://www.ecirclee.com/index.html

    Here is another I know of which is lots less money. These guys raise birds and sell them to preserves all over the state. They probably supply the birds for the first link I posted. They also have a KILLER sporting clays range. The lodge is decent and this place is isolated.
    James Valley Sporting Clays 43765 298th Street Utica South Dakota - 57067 Phone: (605) 364-7468.
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  • cowdoccowdoc Member Posts: 5,847 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I used to take in some hunters but don't anymore. I have to much fall harvesting and ect to do these days to be able to some what guide people
    plus me and kids that are now old enough hunt it

    I am in cent S.Dak
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  • tomahawktomahawk Member Posts: 11,826
    edited November -1
    little river pheasant hunts
    stratford , south dakota
    605 228 9012 dayle[;)]
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