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Tori McCormick

To err is human, but avoiding these mistakes will bag you more pheasants

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Opening day of pheasant hunting’s celebratory mood turned as dark as an Edgar Allan Poe poem not long after the season’s first shot shells were chambered. Cinematically, it had the aura of a pheasant-hunting horror show whose lead characters – the shooter and he who was shot – won’t soon forget.
I spent six glorious autumns in Aberdeen, South Dakota, covering the outdoors and never once hunted the pheasant opener. Opening days were reserved for riding shotgun with local game wardens, then writing a story from of what we’d observed.

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What can Minnesota pheasant hunters expect in 2025? Expectations are high

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Excitement is defined as a feeling of great enthusiasm and eagerness – a mindset that perfectly encapsulates the mood of most Minnesota wildlife officials and others heading into Saturday’s pheasant-hunting opener.
“I think hunters are really excited, and I know I am,” said Tanner Bruse, Minnesota DNR assistant area wildlife supervisor in Marshall, echoing the sentiments of other state and pheasant conservation officials.

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Sun, heat greet hunters, but ducks were plentiful in some areas of Minnesota on opener

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Opening weekend of the 2025 Minnesota duck season had a little bit of everything for the state’s roughly 50,000 waterfowl hunters.
Lots of blue sky. Unseasonably warm morning weather that turned into balmy, summer-like afternoons. Just enough wind, at least in most areas, to keep decoys listing and ducks moving. And, of course, plenty of hungry mosquitoes. In a state with 87 counties and four distinct habitat types or biomes covering nearly 87,000 square miles, hunter success will vary – and it sure did during this year’s duck opener.

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Plenty of water means scouting will be key to success for Minnesota waterfowlers on opener

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At 82 years young, Jerry Christopherson, of Heron Lake in far southwest Minnesota, knows his way around a duck blind.
Aside from a four-year U.S. Army stint beginning in 1961, Christopherson, who started hunting ducks as a young boy, hasn’t missed a Minnesota duck opener.
“I have a few aches and pains, but I can still get around pretty good, and I’ll be out there with my son and grandson – three generations of us – Saturday morning.”

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Four ways to turn passing shots into point-blank opportunities on waterfowl

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I have a friend from South Dakota – a veteran, lifelong waterfowler who hunts a minimum of four days a week during the season – who didn’t purchase a decoy until he was in his 40s.
Indeed, he made his bones as a waterfowler by pass-shooting ducks and geese from ranges that far exceeded my abilities and maximum-effective range as a wingshooter. Still, my friend’s many kills weren’t always clean. He still had too many misses, which, I argued to him, could be winnowed down considerably by hunting over decoys and, if done right, pulling birds in closer.

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Liberal duck seasons expected again in 2026 after results of 2025 federal survey

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When the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released its 2025 Waterfowl Breeding Population and Habitat Survey Field Reports on July 3 – the precursor to the annual Waterfowl Population Status Report – you could almost hear the collective groan of waterfowl managers across North America.
The pilot-biologists who flew the early-spring survey across the U.S. and Canadian breeding grounds found mostly parched landscapes and dry wetlands – inhospitable conditions for breeding ducks.

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Minnesota deer, bear trackers – and their dogs – at the ready

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In a perfect world, every deer or bear hunter would make a clean kill, either with a firearm or a bow. And tracking that animal would be easy as pie.
But that world doesn’t exist. Just ask Lisa Gargulak, co-founder of Bluff Country Deer Recovery, which is part of Minnesota Tracking Dogs, a statewide network of independent trackers who help hunters with deer and bear recoveries.
“As hard as hunters try, as much work as they put in with shooting, errant shots happen for a variety of reasons,” Gargulak said. “No one wants it to happen, but that’s why we’re here if it does.”

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Hungarian partridge offer fast-flushes, challenging shots, and a taste of the Old World in America’s grasslands

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The upland hunt in the early 2000s unraveled in a postcard-perfect setting: along the rolling hills of small grain and grassland near Lemmon, S.D., just west of the walleye-rich Missouri River, where Lewis and Clark paddled and explored many moons ago.
It included three dogs – all pointers – and four hunters, all of whom were from southern states and new to the northern Great Plains and its upland hunting traditions.

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Researchers with Minnesota’s Voyageurs Wolf Project capture and collar their first black wolf

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It’s not every day you see a black wolf roaming the wilds of northern Minnesota in and around Voyageurs National Park near the Canadian border.
As wilderness happenings go, it’s a rare occurrence. That’s the word from the Voyageurs Wolf Project, which reported the black wolf Aug. 8 on its social media platforms after collaring the animal as part of its ongoing wolf research at the 218,000-acre Greater Voyageurs Ecosystem (which includes Voyageurs National Park).
“It was the first black wolf we’ve collared in our 11 years of research.”

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