A Pheasant Hunter's Notebook

by Larry Brown

Overview

Larry Brown covers the pursuit of pheasants from A to Z, discussing appropriate shotguns, chokes and loads; ground tactics for hunters with and without dogs; trends in public land use and crop land management; recent shifts in bird populations and habits; and effective gun handling, just to mention a few. Particularly valuable are his strategies for hunting different kinds of cover in varying types of weather.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780892728190
Publisher:	Down East Books
Publication date:	06/25/2003
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	266
File size:	10 MB

About the Author

Larry Brown has written literally hundreds of articles on hunting and fishing for virtually all of the nation’s outdoor magazines, including Outdoor Life, Pointing Dog Journal, Double Gun Journal, Gun Dog, Pheasants Forever, and Shooting Sportsman, where he is a regular contributor. He is also the author of The Wingshooter’s Guide to Iowa. He is an Iowa native and lives in Randall.

Table of Contents

	Foreword	9
	Introduction	13
1	The Evolution of Pheasant Hunting and of a Pheasant Hunter	17
2	Through the Season	43
3	Thoughts on Guns and Shooting	81
4	Chokes and Loads for Pheasants	107
5	Gun Dogs: The Real Pheasant Hunters	129
6	Where to Hunt Pheasants	159
7	Pheasant Hunting Tactics	191
8	Roosters I Have Known	209
9	A Mixed Bag	225
10	Pheasants Forever	249