Bailey, my 9-year-old black Lab, and I were out for our first walk of the morning the other day when I heard the unmistakable crow of a rooster pheasant. Bailey heard it too. She knows the sound of a ...

And then it happened -- a closer thrashing of wings as a cackling rooster came clamoring through the thicket in my direction. The bird’s raucous vocalizations were startling; the pheasant’s tail was a ...

The annual opening of Michigan’s pheasant season on October 20 is a revered day for me, and has been since I was a kid. My first memories of hunting are of being in the fields of our farm with ...

The classic pheasant gun is a 12- or 16-gauge repeater, chosen because ringneck pheasants are tough and often found in bunches. When the air is full of cackling roosters, as it commonly was back in ...