Pheasant season- week 2

Iowa was supposed to have good birds this year, but they have always been scarce near the river- something about soil composition and nutrition.

Friend posted on facebook pictures of his F150 that took out 2 or 3 pheasants the other day

He did keep the birds 🤣🤣🤣🤣

That was how it was in Montana in the river bottoms. They didn't have a lot of trees, just lots of brush and grass along the creeks. It was nothing to have birds flush in front of you all the time from the side of the road and pheasants aren't exactly fast until they get going. Busted grills and windshields were way too common. A lot of trucks looked like they had been storm chasing with Reed Timmer and got caught in a hail storm with pheasant sized hailstones. There were a lot of trucks with brush guards retrofitted with chain link fencing to protect the grill from pheasants.

We also had the little Hungarian partridges but they weren't big enough to bust a windshield or grill. In the winter they would come down to the road and get gravel off the shoulder to grind their food and they usually flushed as a covey and always seemed to fly right down the road. I got more than a few limits of them with the truck.