Presents Pheasant Country Postcard

Pheasant Country contains some the most breathtaking landscapes imaginable, and it also serves as a backdrop to our favorite moments with friends, family, and good dogs. We invite you to take a look at our supporters’ “Pheasant Country Postcards” below and then submit your own favorite snapshot for us to share.

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<h2>Steady to Flush</h2>When the dog is on point, time stands still and nothing else matters in that moment.
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<h2>SD Full Strut</h2>Is there anything more colorful than a mature, ring-necked rooster pheasant in the springtime? We don't think so!<br /> <br /> This photo was snapped by Tom Koerner of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at LaCreek National Wildlife Refuge in South Dakota.
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<h2>Locked-up</h2>Who's already looking forward to the 2022-2023 upland season?!<br /> <br /> The German shorthaired pointer "Reese" keeps us all daydreaming about the season ahead while locked-up on a rooster in a draw of reed canary grass.<br /> <br /> Intensity at its finest.
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<h2>West River Mixed Bag</h2>Pheasants Forever supporter John Lewis and his crew of GSP's sent us this sunset photo from western South Dakota. Is there anything better than a limit of roosters and a sharp-tailed grouse to boot?
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<h2>Snowy Success</h2>Daniel Sill of Luck, Wisc. and Brandon Wynn of Fort Calhoun, Neb. with a late-season longtail in western Wisconsin.<br /> <br /> “Heavy snow had the birds tucked into thick cattails, which made for tough walking but good shot opportunities,” Sill said. “Lox (L) made a nice point and flush, and Bruly (R) finished the sequence with a great retrieve.”
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<h2>Iowa Snow Birds</h2>English cocker spaniel, "Ruth," and her owner, Pheasants Forever Life Member Anthony Hauck, made the most of Iowa's first snowfall of the year!<br /> <br /> "It was a magical day," reported Hauck. "Tight holding birds, phenomenal dog work, and good shooting made it a memory to last a lifetime."
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<h2>Cattail Kings</h2>Andrew Johnson, a diehard PF member, outdoor writer, and upland hunter recently enjoyed a memorable pheasant stroll with his yellow lab, "Gauge," in South Dakota.<br /> <br /> When your dog is a pheasant fanatic, they typically aren't looking at the camera and instead, are focused on the bird scent still pouring out of the nearby cattails!
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<h2>SDGFP Longtails</h2>Pheasants Forever member Eric Paulson and his bird dog "Charlie" pinned a couple roosters in a drainage with some escape cover on the back side of a pressured Game Production Area in South Dakota.
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<h2>Dairyland Longtail</h2>Casey Sill, Pheasants Forever's Public Relations Specialist and his black lab, "Bruly," found success on opening day of pheasant season in western Wisconsin!<br /> <br /> "I've been watching a large brood of pheasants for most of the summer in one of my waterfowl hotspots," said Sill. "Ten minutes into the opener, we harvested our first rooster of the season!"
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<h2>West Coast Crowing</h2>Where healthy grasslands persist, ringnecks can scratch out a living!<br /> <br /> From the SW coast of Washington State, longtime member Denny Hieronymus sent us this stunning photo of a crowing rooster.<br /> <br /> "I caught on my trail cam what is probably the westernmost rooster in the contiguous US. In May, I flushed a hen and eight quail-sized chicks in the immediate area of the photo. Flushing birds in the sand dunes just a few yards from the ocean is something most people will never get to witness."
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<h2>Brilliant Fall Hues</h2>Iowa's Alex Jacobson submitted this photo of an early season rooster harvested in Hawkeye Country in 2020.<br /> <br /> In the upland world, we think a ring-necked rooster pheasant takes the cake for most beautiful bird...but then again, we might be biased!
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<h2>Walk-In Gold</h2>Pheasants Forever supporter Tim Brown submitted this photo from somewhere, South Dakota.<br /> <br /> With more than 1 million acres of private lands enrolled in the state's Walk-In Area program, we hope to duplicate more of these pictures for the season ahead!
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<h2>Fence Post Crowing</h2>Blaine Brakke of South Dakota captured this mid-cackle rooster last fall in the heart of pheasant country. Now that's a fence line any upland hunter could get used to!<br /> <br />  
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<h2>Northern Prairie Trifecta</h2>Pheasants Forever supporter Craig Armstrong submitted a picture of Daisy, an English pointer, standing proud with a northern prairie trifecta of Hungarian partridge, sharptails, and pheasants from western North Dakota!<br />  
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<h2>Stark County, ND</h2>Pheasants Forever life-member Ben Sattler captured this pic wrapping up an evening hunt while out on an annual pheasant hunting trip to western North Dakota this past fall. He enjoyed a phenomenal upland season in the state chasing pheasants and sharptails harvested over his English Setter, Harvey.
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