The best location for a pheasant hunt is often a dry lake bottom which has a considerable volume of dead brush and weeds which are about knee to waist high or, inside the edges of grain or corn fields.
The rooster pheasant is the one which you want to be hunting. It is usually colorfully marked with long reddish-brown tail feathers including a red and green head. It possesses a white ring surrounding its neck and has red-orange and black body.
Before sunrise pheasants start their day at roost sites. Normally, this is the areas of knee to waist high grass or weeds, where they have spent the night. At sunrise they head for some destination to find gravel or grit, which include roadsides, grain fields or similar areas.
They usually begin feeding around 8 am. In most regions shooting hours begin at 9 am when the birds are still feeding.
By mid-day, pheasants have left the fields for dense, thick cover which can include standing corn fields, brush patches or native grasses. Here they are going to hunker down until late afternoon. The nastier the elements, the deeper into cover the pheasant will go.
It can be hard to work big fields of standing corn, given that pheasants will run to stay clear of possible predators. When you do have a successful shot, always make sure and mark the location where the bird fell so it will not be missing on your way to get it because brush and weeds cause it to be nearly impossible to find anything.
Eventually the pheasant has to eat again. So, throughout the late afternoon, the pheasants move from their loafing spots to the feeding areas and therefore easier to spot.
Following appropriate safety requirements, pheasant hunting is fun for the entire family.
