A very good location for upland game bird hunting is a dry lake bottom having a large volume of dead brush and weeds that happens to be about knee to waist high or, in the edges of grain or corn fields.
The rooster pheasant is the one which you want to be hunting. It can be colorfully marked with long reddish-brown tail feathers with a red and green head. It has a white ring surrounding its neck and has red-orange and black body.
Before sunrise pheasants start their day at roost sites. This is usually the patches of knee to waist high grass or weeds, where the pheasants have spent the night. At sunrise they head for some place to find gravel or grit, such as roadsides, grain fields or similar areas.
They generally begin feeding around 8 am. In most regions shooting hours begin at 9 am when the birds will still be feeding.
By noon, pheasants have left the fields for dense, thick cover such as standing corn fields, brush patches or native grasses. Here they will likely hunker down until late afternoon. The nastier the weather, the deeper into cover the pheasant will go.
It is usually hard to work larger fields of standing corn, because pheasants will run to steer clear of predators. When you have a successful shot, make sure and mark the place that the bird fell so it will not be lost on your journey to pick it up as the brush and weeds cause it to be difficult to find anything.
Inevitably the pheasant has to eat again. So, during the late afternoon, the pheasants move from their loafing spots back to the feeding areas and are generally easier to spot.
Following recommended safety requirements, pheasant hunting is fun for the entire family.
