Saw this guy when I was back home in PA... he just hung out for a few and let me shoot him... dummy. They ain't like that in Kansas...

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They are truly beautiful birds. I wish we had wild one's here.

They are truly beautiful birds. I wish we had wild one's here.

Do we not have any wild ones here?

B thought he seen a couple like 15 years ago or so down by the Ferne/Shawnee area?

I have never seen one in Saline county but there may be one or two, I have seen a few up at Rend Lake but they release them for hunting there.

I seen a few on our dinner table too......from the muddy river shooting preserve...ROFL....I gotta get up to Rend again and shoot my gun......:D

I haven't never seen a pheasant in the wild though.........:(

Are you serious? I see these all the time back where I grew up in Havana Il. We could hear them doing their "cluck" in the summer when we would be moving irrigation in Central Illinois. I see them pretty often. See, you guys get the Bobcats, we get the birds. :)

Central IL has them but S. IL doesn't.

I was told they have tried to get them started in S IL several years ago but they never survived.

Maybe it's all the cougar running around here S IL. :D

Quite a few in Central Il for sure. Birder lots of opportunities for photo's of pheasants over at Lake Sangris. Nice shootin Bob.

yep, and Im gonna head over to Site M....you ever go there, MDoc?

I've bow hunted there but never had the cam with me. Want to fish there this spring supposed to have some huge muskies!

Bob, on our 2006 Kansas trip we sat and watched one crow and cluck around for about 5 minutes right by the road before it flew off. Shocking thing was when he flew about 25 of his buddies did too and we had no clue they were even in the stubble nearby.

Oh you can practically step on these things and they wont budge. Best defense tactic.

Back in the 80's and 90's a pheasant hatchery was hit by a storm in Lincoln and a bunch got loose. For a long time you could drive out that way and theyd just be walking around like you were their neighbor or something. They were used to humans. Not the best conservation, in my opinion. No sport in it if they think your gonna give them a cracker. But very beautiful animals. And they taste great.