Before I ever owned a gun dog, I walked up pheasants on the family farm by myself. While I wouldn’t go back to hunting without a dog, I remember the special thrill of dogless hunting: there’s no ...

April and May are the two favorite months of mushroom hunters. Warm weather coupled with spring rains mean mushrooms start popping up everywhere, making this time of year prime time for foraging.

This story, “Better Pheasant Hunting Alone,” was originally published in the October 1984 issue of Outdoor Life. Over the past several years, I’ve kept records on more than 100 pheasant hunts. During ...

A pheasant hunting rule of mine is to always go on the last day—and I’ve lost track of how many last-day limits I’ve shot. The bitter end of the season can make for some of the most fulfilling hunts ...

Early Saturday, Charlie the Butcher, Michael, John & and Tracey's daughter, Grace (Roll Tide), took a trek on an ATV and a ...

Pheasant hunting is a long-standing fall tradition across North America and Europe. Hunters live for that heart-pounding moment when a pheasant bursts from the grass. But a good shot isn’t the only ...

Last Saturday, our woodcock, grouse and pheasant seasons opened. Sadly, there just aren’t enough wild woodcock and grouse anymore for our large and concentrated hunting population. To the delight of ...

For the first time ever on a Sunday the sound of flushed, cackling pheasants and the report of shotgun blasts will be heard in Pennsylvania as junior pheasant hunters and mentored youth hunters of all ...

Gravel crunched under tires and dust kicked up from the access road into Nockamixon State Park, as a Pennsylvania Game Commission truck lumbered through with its cargo of hundreds of fowl. These were ...

In the fall of the early 1970s, ring-necked pheasants were the reason I first began hunting. It was a time when wild ring-necks were everywhere in Pennsylvania, a time when you could walk through a ...