Debate is on about hunting pen-raised pheasants in South Dakota Will South Dakota s pheasant hunting scene already laced with nearly 500,000 farm-raised birds increasingly rely on artificial propagation?
By Tony Kennedy Star Tribune November 20, 2018 9:11am Text size Copy shortlink:
IPSWICH, S.D. A rooster jetted out of the corn stalks as soon as Mike Ward and Jax, his German shorthaired pointer, pushed into the crop a quarter-mile away.
The bird flew low and straight, rising over a row of cedar trees that concealed two other hunters. One of them, Mike’s father, stepped out of the pines with a raised shotgun. He ended an otherwise crafty getaway with a single blast.