I hunt pheasants with non-toxic shot a lot. Some places I hunt, non-toxic shot is required. Any time waterfowl season is open, I load up with non-toxic because I want to be able to shoot at a duck, ...

In the fall of 1941, just before the U.S. entered World War II, hunters in Minnesota went afield and shot 1.8 million pheasants, the most ever. That was just 25 years after the birds, natives of China ...

Truth is, most of the guards — who were farm boys and outdoorsmen — turned a blind eye to our outdoors adventures as long as ...

Not all shotshells are created equal. “Premium” loads offer elevated performance at a cost, but are they necessary? To find ...

BELLINGHAM, Minn. — The constant, soft-tinkling bell hanging from the collar of Kota, a well-mannered female German shorthaired pointer, stopped tinkling, which tends to get your attention if you are ...

Three years into a five-year pledge to completely phase out lead shot in UK game hunting, a study finds that 94% of pheasants on sale for human consumption were killed using lead. Three years into a ...

Eating pheasant killed using lead shot is likely to expose consumers to raised levels of lead in their diet, even if the meat is carefully prepared to remove the shotgun pellets and the most damaged ...

A Worcester man who keeps pheasants caged on his small farm says three of the game birds have been stolen and a fourth shot through the neck with a 4-inch dart.Frederick Randell says he thinks the ...

GREGORY, S.D. -- To George Johnson's regret, it is indisputable. Judge Billy Roy Wilson killed a pheasant. It happened Oct. 3, the last day of a three-day hunt, at the very end of the very last field, ...