Parker pages

[Chad Hefflinger]

Grabbed the new issue out of the mailbox this morning on the way to the family farm for some pheasant hunting.

[charlie cleveland]

what a picture..thats a great looking gun you got there..charlie

[Mike Franzen]

they still have pheasants on the farms in NW Ohio? Great looking gun

[Chad Hefflinger]

they still have pheasants on the farms in NW Ohio? Great looking gun

Not many, but my dad was heavily involved in pheasants forever several years ago and put about 30 acres of one of the farms into a crp program. Back then there were a few wild birds, and there was also a local friend who ran planted bird hunts out there and a few of them managed to make it. Now there are a couple adjoining farms that have also enrolled into the CRP program (maybe 150 acres). By no means is this area a pheasant Mecca but I can usually go out and at least get an opportunity. Two of the birds in the pic were birds I bought and planted, just so I knew we would have something to shoot at. The other was a wild bird, we also seen one other wild rooster and 3 hens that morning.

[Mike Franzen]

There's still a few wild birds is SW ohio as well. Old timers tell stories about this area was the Mecca. That pic could be the cover of a Parker Pages IMHO.

[Chad Hefflinger]

My grandfather told me stories of this area back in the 20's and 30's, Clark Gable and other stars would come to this area to hunt pheasants. Unfortunately the farming practices have changed here over the decades. Very little livestock, fence rows are all gone, ditches are mowed, corn and beans planted right up to the roads.