| Of course, the first tip is to have your shotgun | | | | are still feeding. |
| loaded before you start out to find some birds. | | | | By mid-morning, pheasants have left the fields for |
| Good locations for finding pheasants is a dry lake | | | | dense, thick cover such as standing corn fields, |
| bottom with a significant amount of dead brush | | | | brush patches or native grasses. Here they will |
| and weeds which are about knee to waist high or, | | | | hunker down until late afternoon. The nastier the |
| in the edges of grain or corn fields. | | | | weather, the deeper into cover the pheasant will |
| The rooster (male) pheasant is the one that you | | | | go. |
| want to be hunting. It is colorfully marked with | | | | It is hard to work large fields of standing corn, |
| long reddish-brown tail feathers and a red and | | | | because pheasants will run to avoid predators. If |
| green head. It has a white ring around its neck | | | | you are hunting during mid day, then pick ditch |
| and has red-orange and black body. The hen | | | | banks, field edges, grass field and deep into |
| (female) pheasant is smaller than the rooster. She | | | | marshes. |
| is mostly light brown throughout the whole body | | | | When you do have a successful shot, make sure |
| and has short light brown tail feathers. | | | | and mark where the bird fell so it will not be lost |
| Pheasants follow a schedule as routine as your | | | | on your way to pick it up because the brush and |
| morning coffee. Understanding their routine can | | | | weeds make it difficult to find anything. |
| increase you likely hood of flushing out a rooster. | | | | Eventually the pheasant has to eat again. So, |
| Before sunrise pheasants start their day at roost | | | | during the late afternoon, the pheasants move |
| sites. This is usually the areas of knee to waist | | | | from their loafing spots back to the feeding areas |
| high grass or weeds, where they have spent the | | | | and are easier to spot. |
| night. At first light they head for some place to | | | | In summary, the best time to hunt pheasants is |
| find gravel or grit, such as roadsides, grain fields | | | | the first and the last shooting hours of the day. |
| or similar areas. | | | | Hope these pheasant hunting tips were helpful and |
| They usually begin feeding around 8 am. In some | | | | you have a successful hunting trip. |
| places shooting hours begin at 9 am and the birds | | | | |