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Recommendations for a pheasant hunt
Posted on 4/9/14 at 7:14 am
Posted on 4/9/14 at 7:14 am
My duck hunting partners and I have just realized that none of us have been on a pheasant hunt. We have decided to go as a group of 6-8 somewhere in the next year.
We are wanting to go somewhere in the plains states. Has anyone been anywhere they'd reccomend?
We are wanting to go somewhere in the plains states. Has anyone been anywhere they'd reccomend?
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Posted on 4/9/14 at 7:20 am to Jcrew
Public land in South Dakota buy a lic get a map go hunt you will get your limits, for a dog lab will do fine keep on heal walk birds flush you shoot send dog to retrieve. Take pecans give to land owners if they let you trespass but plenty of public land, go in November not in October you get 2 hrs more hunting time
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Posted on 4/9/14 at 7:53 am to Jcrew
LTD guide service (from Toledo Bend) does hunts in Kansas and they are fun. They have a really cool lodge they use.
Ask for JT. Good rates sa well.
Ask for JT. Good rates sa well.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 7:54 am to Cracker
Any chance for duck/pheasant hunt that time of year with as much public land as you're talking?
Sounds like y'all gonna have a blast.
Sounds like y'all gonna have a blast.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 7:57 am to Larry Gooseman
Lots of geese in KS, ducks depend on how much water is available. If there is any water in some of the farm ponds, there are usually lots of ducks trying to find a spot on them, if not you have to find a creek and set decoys. Finding a creek can be difficult.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 8:35 am to hardhead
By far my favorite hunting trip. Find an outfitter in South Dakota. Let them do all the work (transportation to fields, guides/dogs, bird cleaning, food/lodge & etc).
Show up, drink, sleep, eat, hunt, eat/drink, sleep, & repeat a few days. I went with an outfit called Pheasant Meadows for 3 years. They are no longer in business due to family fallout, but they had a good thing going. There's plenty of great outfitters up there.
On land designated as a game preserve the daily limits are usually higher. We were allowed 5/day per hunter. Some places allow up to 10/day.
Show up, drink, sleep, eat, hunt, eat/drink, sleep, & repeat a few days. I went with an outfit called Pheasant Meadows for 3 years. They are no longer in business due to family fallout, but they had a good thing going. There's plenty of great outfitters up there.
On land designated as a game preserve the daily limits are usually higher. We were allowed 5/day per hunter. Some places allow up to 10/day.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 9:10 am to Jcrew
If you've got the cash I highly recommend The Flying B Ranch. Awesome hunt, awesome food, awesome dogs, awesome guides.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 9:13 am to DonChowder
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The Flying B Ranch
Are those wild birds?
Posted on 4/9/14 at 9:23 am to wickowick
Some wild some farmed. You can pretty well tell which is which when they start flying.
The Chukar and Huns are wild though.
The Chukar and Huns are wild though.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 9:23 am to Jcrew
Y'all interested more in a fun time, or killing a lot of stuff? These are two different types of trips in my opinion.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 9:44 am to Jcrew
www.ringneckhaven.com
Hunted with them the past 3 or 4 years. We drive in Friday evening, do a European hunt Saturday AM, cleanup field hunt Sat PM (go get all the missed birds), a regular field hunt Sun AM, drive home that afternoon. These are mostly farm raised birds, but we typically get several wild ones also. If you've never done a European hunt try it. It's an absolute blast (need at least 10 hunters to do it).
Hunted with them the past 3 or 4 years. We drive in Friday evening, do a European hunt Saturday AM, cleanup field hunt Sat PM (go get all the missed birds), a regular field hunt Sun AM, drive home that afternoon. These are mostly farm raised birds, but we typically get several wild ones also. If you've never done a European hunt try it. It's an absolute blast (need at least 10 hunters to do it).
Posted on 4/9/14 at 9:57 am to Jcrew
If you are wanting to hunt Pheasants South Dakota is the only place to go - especially for wild, public land birds.
I grew up hunting them in Iowa and it used to be neck and neck with SoDak. Now it is not even close, Iowa totally sucks for Pheasants. SoDak is king. If you are wanting a guide there are tons of them, I would try around the Chamberlain area, they are in that Golden triangle where you will get limits, almost every day.
Thunderstick lodge and rooster ridge are pretty good places.
I would also recommend if you can to try to combine some fall walleye fishing with the bird hunting. For table fare, walleye is one of the best freshwater fish and something not found in the south.
I grew up hunting them in Iowa and it used to be neck and neck with SoDak. Now it is not even close, Iowa totally sucks for Pheasants. SoDak is king. If you are wanting a guide there are tons of them, I would try around the Chamberlain area, they are in that Golden triangle where you will get limits, almost every day.
Thunderstick lodge and rooster ridge are pretty good places.
I would also recommend if you can to try to combine some fall walleye fishing with the bird hunting. For table fare, walleye is one of the best freshwater fish and something not found in the south.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 9:59 am to Mid Iowa Tiger
Lots the pheasant states have lost A LOT of CRP grass in the past couple of years. Birds numbers are down everywhere...
Posted on 4/9/14 at 10:38 am to tenfoe
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Y'all interested more in a fun time, or killing a lot of stuff? These are two different types of trips in my opinion.
That's where we are hung up. We've seen the varying limits and the option to "buy" more birds. Me personally, I'd like to kill enough stuff to make it worth my investment. I've even thought of trying to find a combo goose/ pheasant or something similar.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 10:59 am to Jcrew
Also have to remember there are many ways to hunt pheasants. Behind dogs (my vote), blocking and driving, along roads, tower shoots, etc...
Posted on 4/9/14 at 1:38 pm to wickowick
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Lots the pheasant states have lost A LOT of CRP grass in the past couple of years. Birds numbers are down everywhere...
Down in some places yes. Iowa's harvest has gone from averaging over 1.2 million birds to 100,000 - 150,000 the darn birds are practically extinct in Iowa.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 4:05 pm to Mid Iowa Tiger
Absolutely the best place in S.D. is Southfork Lodge in Dallas, S.D. LINK /. I've been going up there for the last 10 years and it is amazing. Similar to most lodges in S.D. you have wild and raised but they put the raised birds in the fields in the summer to get them acclimated and in the wild groups. They have upwards of 6k acres in milo, corn, and shelter belts. Its not cheap by but well worth it.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 5:43 pm to joshrip24
Pheasants are not only fun to hunt/shoot. But damn fine table fare as well. Make it worth your while.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 10:35 pm to Jcrew
Tell me when you want to go ill tag along save your lodge cash for a rainy day. I can put you on the birds lic is 70-80 bucks don't waste your money on some lodge crap it's not worth it at an avg of 200+ a day 
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