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I have been Phesant hunting once.
Monday, November 09, 2026, 09:02

It was 40 yrs. ago. We were in Nebraska with a light snow on the ground. A friend had moved there from Arkansas. We had neither great knowledge about Pheasants nor much equipment, and no dogs. Our tactic was to get to the bottom of the cut fields and walk up the little overgrown drainage ditches. This is where the birds were hiding.

You can't shoot hens, just cocks. I'd never even seen a live Pheasant. My buddy had his trusty plain barrel 12 bore 1100 he got for his 10th birthday and I had a ribbed mod choke 870. We both shot "hi-brass" #4's. The birds flushed 20 yds. before we got to them and flew straight up about 15-20ft. before bugging out. Boy can they fly! This head start, the requirement to identify the sex, and startling flush, made it very sporting. But things were just starting. Unless they were killed outright, when they hit the ground they ran like a deer. Hid in the brush and would not flush again. A second type of hunt!

We got a couple and they were really good eating. I'd like to try it again.

Please give us a post hunt report!