On Tuesday, Nov. 15, the second crew of Rooster Road Trip will focus their efforts on the WIHA (Walk-In Hunter Area) lands of northern Kansas in search of public lands pheasants and quail.
Growing up as a kid in Minnesota, wild quail hunting wasn’t even on my radar. Fall hunting transitioned from grouse to ducks to pheasants to deer, and there wasn’t room for anything more.
The second leg of Rooster Road Trip launches in the great state of Oklahoma on November 14th where bobwhite quail numbers have witnessed another year of booming increases.
The second leg of Rooster Road Trip 2016 – Upland Nation, an annual digital showcase of upland hunting on public land habitat & access projects – starts November 14th.
In talking with pheasant hunters at hotels, restaurants and in the field across South Dakota and Minnesota this week, this is the shotgun we were asked about and the one that had to be held.
The best thing about hunting pheasants in the Marshall, Minnesota, area, isn’t that there are 40,000 acres available to the public lands hunter. It’s that all those acres are within 30 miles of town.