Tips For new/young Pheasant hunters

[Field King]

I am dreaming of pheasant hunting so maybe sharing tips with some new/young bird hunters will help me with my jonesin, here goes. When pulling up to a field in a vehicle park slightly away from the field you will be hunting, close the vehicle doors gently, speak to each other in low voice, use hand motions to communicate, birds will hear you and run! Prepare down the road all the gear, dogs and coats etc. With no dog walk along the field in a line, but staggered from one another, this sounds crazy but every 50 feet or so (motion to the others for safety reasons) turn around and walk back 15 feet or so and zig zag and do a circle, some birds will hold tight and let you walk by, they can hunker and hide in the shortest stuff too! This will un-nerve them and they will fly, each hunter should alternate and do this! With or without a dog do not overlook little spots, many a time I have been in a big field and seen a small clump of grass as small as 2 or 3 feet square in the middle of a plowed field and there were 1 or more birds there if man or dog would head out to it and check it out! Cut corn fields, YOU think you can see a pheasant size bird in it if n there was any, I tell u they can hide in it, you gotta walk that corn stubble too! Good luck to all who take the field this year! Keep it safe!