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THE FIRST IN THE FIELD THIS FALL!
Three-day
opening weekend hunt may be available for 2009!
October 17th - October 19th, 2009.
Call for group size requirements, rates, and availability
for opening weekend dates.
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Our
Season:
The 3rd Saturday of October
through the 1st week in January.
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SOUTH DAKOTA PHEASANT HUNTING
Koby
Mahrt -
P.O. Box 996
Mitchell, SD 57301
(605)-999-3608 (Cell)
(605)-292-4868 (Business)
(605)-292-0597 (Fax)
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RING NECK PHEASANT
After numerous unsuccessful stocking attempts, no one
imagines that the 26 ring neck pheasants stocked in
Oregon in 1882 would result in a harvest of nearly
50,000 of these magnificent birds only a decade later.
These remarkable birds are now found in 39 US states and
7 Canadian providences.
Ring neck pheasant populations are greatest in the upper
Midwest states, such as South Dakota, Kansas, Iowa, and
North Dakota. South Dakota has seen it’s pheasant
populations literally explode on a yearly basis, since
the conception of the CRP program. In fact, over 60,000
out-of-state pheasant hunting parties visit South Dakota
yearly in pursuit of this magnificent upland game bird.
Ring neck depend mainly on their eyesight and hearing to
outwit pheasant hunters and predators. In tall
vegetation, the pheasants listen for any unusual sounds
and then take evasive action. Like many other upland
game birds, they also detect approaching predators by
sensing ground vibrations through pressure-sensitive
pads, called Herbst’s corpuscles on the feet. It is
documented that in the early 1800’s, a cannon was fired
from a countryside in Europe, and several hundred miles
south, a pheasant raising operation noticed that their
pheasants became very stressed and secluded for a short
period of time.
The ring neck pheasant diet consists mostly of small
grains, supplemented by weed seeds and small insects.
The pheasant prefer corn, where it is available, but
they also eat wheat, oats, soybeans, sorghum and milo.
Small insects, particularly grasshoppers, are commonly
eaten by adults and chicks alike; high protein content
is needed for their rapid growth as chicks.
As with most upland game birds, ring neck pheasants are
short lived. On average, 80 percent of the birds taken
by pheasant hunting groups were hatched the previous
spring. Rarely does a pheasant live more than 2 years.
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