When Mark Miner pulled himself out of bed early on the morning of October 20, 1985, he was thinking about pheasants. The thought of bears never crossed his mind. After getting his hunting gear ...

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 ...

Jay Delaney, commissioner for the PGC’s Northeast Region, with his dog Hunter, before the start of a wild pheasant flushing survey last week in Columbia County. TOM VENESKY/the times leader ROHRSBURG, ...

The annual opening of Michigan’s pheasant season on October 20 is a revered day for me, and has been since I was a kid. My first memories of hunting are of being in the fields of our farm with ...

“We’ll flush about 150 birds today,” I told my new friend M.D. as we loaded our guns by his truck. A recent transplant to pheasant country at the time, M.D. raptly surveyed the wide fields, trying to ...

A flash of color, the sound of powerful wings flapping and usually a raucous squawk or two, and he's airborne. A wild, ringneck rooster pheasant flushing on a bright fall day is one of the great ...

I readily remember when the first December pheasant hunt was allowed in the Thumb in 2005, and I was an avid participant. The fact is, December quickly became my favorite pheasant hunting season - not ...