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Pheasant
hunting tips
According to a DNR wildlife research biologist,
pheasants follow a schedule as routine as your daily
commute to and from work. Understanding the
pheasant's daily movements can increase your odds of
flushing a rooster.
Pheasants
start their day before sunrise at roost sites,
usually in areas of short to medium height grass or
weeds, where they spend the night.
Pheasants
usually begin feeding around 8:00 a.m. When shooting
hours begin an hour later, the birds are still
feeding, often in grain fields while cautiously
making their way toward safe cover.
By
mid-morning, pheasants have left the fields for the
densest, thickest cover they can find, such as a
standing corn. Birds will hunker down here for the
day until late afternoon."
But eventually, pheasants have to eat again.
During the late afternoon, the birds move from their
loafing spots back to the feeding areas. As in the
morning, birds now are easier to spot from a
distance and are more accessible to hunters. That's
why the first and last shooting hours are
consistently the best times to hunt pheasants. |
