Mid Season Pheasant Hunting Tips
Hunting during the middle of Minnesota’s pheasant hunting season requires bird hunters
alter their tactics. The hunting conditions are now more favorable for the
dogs, but the “easy” roosters are long gone. The remaining pheasants have
learned to enter the corn fields early each day, many times, just after sunrise.
The hunters working these grassy areas adjacent to the standing corn will
notice that their dogs will become very "birdie". The dogs, and
sometimes even the pheasant hunters, will be tempted to enter the standing corn to
flush these unseen pheasants. But the majority of these scent trails are
several hours old.
This type of pheasant hunting requires a well disciplined pheasant dog.
That’s just another reason why I like to start the Minnesota pheasant hunting season
with a few pre-season trips to the local pheasant hunting club. These preseason trips allow
your dog the opportunity to work a variety of cover. These trips also
give pheasant hunters a chance to work on their dog’s range, especially when
their dog loses sight of their master.
If given the choice, I'll only hunt the grassy fields that border freshly picked cornfields during the
middle of Minnesota's pheasant hunting season. I've always tried to keep close tabs on which farmers are picking their fields, and when, throughout
the pheasant hunting season. This information helps me select which grass fields are ready to
be hunted. The pheasant is a real creature of habit. If the birds roosting in “jam me” land have
patterned themselves to feed in the adjacent cornfield each morning, then those pheasants will
still try, even after the cornfield is gone.
But now they’ll just sulk on the edges the grass field, sneaking into the corn stubble for a few kernels of corn
and then back into the safety of the grass. I’ve experience some of my best
pheasant hunting trips in Minnesota under these conditions. The fields that seemed void
of pheasants just the week before are now alive with roosters. Enjoy the few good
days of hunting that a fresh stubble field will provide. But don’t hunt the
memories. It only takes a couple of hunts to educate these roosters and then they’ll find a
new “jam me” land to roost.
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