Central North Dakota pheasant report

[wolfman-k]

Family & friends-six others and I, hunted Friday through Sunday near my hometown in central N.D. & we had good hunting, but worked to find birds each day. We did best after a morning of intense fog on Sunday finally cleared after noon. All told, we nearly limited out on the pheasants, and my life-long friend who still lives and works there harvested a limit of Hungarian partridge! We saw a few coveys this year, it's been slim pickings for about six years. The grouse are down considerably this season though, we saw several singles but not the big flocks as in years past. There are ALOT of deer out there too, we kicked up a few nice bucks, but of course, mostly does and fawns.

We hunted all PLOTS and open to public land, most crops except some corn has been harvested. This week's weather will surely slow down the rest of the corn harvest. Ducks were scarce, my Brother-in-law got a few, he was the only one in our party to purchase the extra license. We saw alot of duck hunters, but I didn't ask how they were doing.

My friend up there said the ducks moved out of the area soon after the season started. It should get better when the weather forced the migration.

[rwwong]

Interesting that you didn't see the Sharptails, we saw them all over the place. In certain places, more grouse than pheasants.