Truth is, most of the guards — who were farm boys and outdoorsmen — turned a blind eye to our outdoors adventures as long as ...

For my 40th birthday, in December, I asked my wife, Virginia, for something special. I wanted her to take advantage of the hunter-education classes that had moved online due to the pandemic to obtain ...

Pennsylvania pheasant hunters will be headed afield starting this weekend, for their first season since state officials expanded Sunday hunting opportunities. Saturday, Oct. 11, marks the start of ...

Gravel crunched under tires and dust kicked up from the access road into Nockamixon State Park, as a Pennsylvania Game Commission truck lumbered through with its cargo of hundreds of fowl. These were ...

“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 ...

In the fall of the early 1970s, ring-necked pheasants were the reason I first began hunting. It was a time when wild ring-necks were everywhere in Pennsylvania, a time when you could walk through a ...

To the hunter who can’t stand the thought of giving up walking through a frost-covered thicket with a coiled bird dog, ever hoping for that magical flush of a ring-necked pheasant. To Lancaster County ...

Pheasant hunters aren’t just good at flushing out the birds they’re hunting. They’re pretty adept at figuring out where the Pennsylvania Game Commission is likely to stock them. As Warden Zebulun ...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — Remember 2019? That was the year South Dakota’s pheasant season saw the fewest hunters since the early 1990s. Nonresident license sales had fallen to 63,801, a 38% drop from 2010 ...

Editor's Note: This is the first in a limited series featuring wild game recipes created by Fargo chef and avid hunter and angler Jeff Benda. More content is ...

Last Saturday, our woodcock, grouse and pheasant seasons opened. Sadly, there just aren’t enough wild woodcock and grouse anymore for our large and concentrated hunting population. To the delight of ...