MN Pheasant numbers up 75%!?

[gspman]

Ya'll go down there. I'll have the rest of the state to myself.

[BDR]

Ray you are very correct. It is relative to bieng so close to the city. It is not my goto spots. And there is very little public land that gets pounded hard.

[lawdog]

Heck Jacpine, you guys are all welcome. We like taking money from you tourists, especially since you won't kill many of our local birds anyway. Just don't complain when there aren't a zillion pheasants coming out of the three or four WMA's in the county that you all are trying to squeeze yourself into...

[Roosterslayer05]

lawdogs right, there are no WMA's around levurne but i do hunt some private land around there thats full of pheasents. If you cant find private land to hunt around there its not worth it.

[fishing 101]

The numbers are no where near the population we had in 2003. That was a great year here in SW MN. This year looks to be similar to last year. Not a bad year, but it was definitley the fewest amount of birds I shot in the last 7 years and we have all the private land a guy could ask for. If it turns out to be like last year - I am heading North for some fall muskie fishing.

[LuciandTim]

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The numbers are no where near the population we had in 2003. That was a great year here in SW MN. This year looks to be similar to last year. Not a bad year, but it was definitley the fewest amount of birds I shot in the last 7 years and we have all the private land a guy could ask for. If it turns out to be like last year - I am heading North for some fall muskie fishing.

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Last year was awesome...where were you hunting?? I have never seen so many birds in MN in my life (16 yrs in the field).

With the good nests we had this year i'm sure it can only be better!!

A side note: I hunt mainly Public Land so go figure