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 ...

MADISON, MINN. -- Far ahead, we can see the pheasants flushing. First a single, then a couple more. Now, at least a dozen have lit out for the distant cattails. It's December, and these birds have ...

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, ...

DILLON — Christian Sorenson pulled up on a flushing rooster pheasant and watched as it flew away against the backdrop of the Pioneer Mountains. The 13-year-old from Butte learned one of the many ...

“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 ...