I gave up on that a few years ago when I watched a poor pheasant that had somehow survived a few days "on it's own" and had become hungry. I watched it following a hunter down a trail hoping for a handful of pheasant chow!

It wasn't the crowd that turned me off as I only hunted it during afternoons on days there where no scheduled releases. It was the quality of birds and the over all experiance that turned me off. That and the fact my dog would find three dead/wounded birds for every on that would take flight. I'd rather hunt for days for one wild pheasant then hours for two pen raised pheasant.

Same reason I fish wild steelhead instead of blue creek! I'm a snob and damn proud of it!

I will admit though that the last year I hunted it was when Sage was 6 months old so there is some training oppertunities to be derived.
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