Hardy and experienced late-fall roosters are scarce (hunted down), paranoid (hunted long) and elusive (hunted hard). October’s easy pickings of young, innocent cocks are gone.
Welcome to the cagiest, most nervous and neurotic game bird you will ever encounter. Here’s how to hunt November’s Ph.D. roosters.
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Are you a pheasant hunting fanatic – a real rooster junky? A once-in-while rooster chaser who just loves getting out with the dog a few weekends each fall? Or a newcomer to what is, in my opinion, the grandest upland bird hunting pastime of all? I fall into the first category. But no matter where you sit on the scale, there is one factor you can take care of right now, in late summer and early fall: preparing for the hunt.
Five steps to getting ready for roosters right now Read More »
Last pheasant season is just a fond memory now. In my opinion, it was a good one.
With our excellent public land base in Minnesota’s ringneck range, as well as habitat work by Pheasants Forever and a variety of federal, state and local partners (not to mention what is shaping up to be a mild winter in the pheasant range), next season is already on my mind.
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While I can’t back up the following statement with hard data, I would bet my favorite shotgun on this as truth: More than 80% of the roosters ever shot in North America have been bagged by folks wearing blue jeans, tennis shoes or work boots, flannel shirt or sweatshirt, and ball cap, while toting a shotgun that didn’t bust the bank account.
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We live in a day and age when gear – more of it, and the more expensive the better – can seem to be a solution to becoming a more successful hunter. Pheasant hunters can fall victim to this kind of thinking.
While I can’t back up the following statement with hard data, I would bet my favorite shotgun on this as truth: More than 80% of the roosters ever shot in North America have been bagged by folks wearing blue jeans, tennis shoes or work boots, flannel shirt or sweatshirt, and ball cap, while toting a shotgun that didn’t bust the bank account.
Gearing up for 2024 pheasants: Keep it simple, travel light Read More »
Interest in turkey hunting falls off during our Minnesota season’s waning weeks, this year May 10-16 (period E) and May 17-31 (period F). If you buy a license for E, you also get to hunt F, which is when unused tags from periods A through D become valid again.
Fishing season is upon us. But you often have the woods to yourself, and turkeys are still out there. Breeding has not stopped. That’s all good for the May turkey hunter.
Turkey Timing Part 3: Minnesota’s E and F seasons can be fantastic Read More »
Just a few of the advantages of holding off to hunt spring turkeys until the midseason options – seasons C and D – include greening grass, leafing trees, warmer weather, and toms still looking for love but finding fewer suitors available.
If life, work, weather, fishing plans, or whatever dictate midseason hunting for you, and periods C and D are your lot, then I would consider that a good situation. Maybe the best of all. Here’s why.
Why Minnesota’s ‘C’ and ‘D’ season might be the best time to bag a bird Read More »
At the hunting season’s start, wild turkeys are doing about the same thing no matter the weather in Minnesota: roosting, surviving, eating, breeding. Photoperiod (daylight length) drives the mating urge in male birds, and photoperiod doesn’t change. I’ve shot turkeys during storms that piled more snow on top of the 18 inches already on the ground.
If you plan on hunting seasons A or B in April, here are a few strategies for approaching the hunt, and tips to employ.
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While traditionally thought of as a creature of wide-open spaces, the adaptable coyote has pioneered timber country in untold numbers in recent years.
Wily ways to hunt wintertime coyotes in forests and woodlands Read More »
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