Category Archives: pheasant hunting

Abbey is in there — somewhere

Posted on November 18, 2022 by Jerry Johnson

Snow, freezing rain, and a 15-degree cold front swept across the North Country this week, a gift from the Dakotas so that we would not feel excluded from the party. I was perfectly willing to stay in the Clubhouse, read, … Continue reading →

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Wild, wild (opening) weekend

Posted on October 31, 2022 by Jerry Johnson

Opening weekend of pheasant season was wild in northwest Iowa. Of the hundred-some ringnecks we put to wing Saturday and Sunday, all but two were wild, wild flushers. The two that held to Abbey’s points were, of course, hens. We … Continue reading →

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There’s a point (of impact) to all this

Posted on January 3, 2020 by Jerry Johnson

Certain that the old Lefever 16 gauge must be shooting low (I missed two shot at pheasants one cold December morning) I spent this overcast January afternoon doing a point-of-impact test to prove the inaccurate shooting was the fault of … Continue reading →

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Balancing act

Posted on December 21, 2019 by Jerry Johnson

After a recent comedy of errors performed in the course of a mid-morning pheasant hunt in the North Country (read Seven shotshells), Abbey and I were due for a karmic balancing act, an opportunity to enjoy an exciting and uplifting … Continue reading →

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Seven shotshells

Posted on December 14, 2019 by Jerry Johnson

Abbey must have thought we had died and gone to heaven. Six weeks into a sparse bird season we blundered into a pheasant paradise where she found, tracked, and pointed nine birds in less than two hours – six hens … Continue reading →

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Opening day

Posted on November 2, 2019 by Jerry Johnson

Abbey shifts into overdrive when I take her bell out of the box. It’s impossible to buckle the collar while she is doing her happy-dog spin-and-twirl dance, so I give her a couple minutes to calm down and then order … Continue reading →

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