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 ...

A pheasant looks for food in a field north of Spokane on Feb. 26 in this photo by Mark Hendrickson. Web extra: Submit your ...

One gene which remains very prominent in our local hybrid pheasant population is that of the Chinese ringneck, and it is rare to shoot a wild rooster which doesn’t have a white band around its neck.

The right choke for pheasant hunting will help you put enough pellets in a ringneck’s vitals to drop the bird immediately. Pheasants are big, tough birds, often shot going away, at distances ...

Pheasant hunting is often thought of as a group activity, but spending a day in the field on your own, kicking up hens and roosters alike is a wonderful way to spend a fall afternoon. Brad ...

Wet weather and a late pheasant hatch may have led to a slower than expected start to the hunting season. As hunters are only allowed to harvest roosters, some hunters earlier in the season ...

Pheasant hunters are expected to harvest about 250,000 roosters this fall, the lowest harvest since 1997. This compares to harvests that have exceeded 500,000 roosters five of the past eight years.