Hi, Dean. I meant that at commercial pheasant hunting operations and high end lodges that they often have a limit of 5 because they do supplement the population. I put that in there because a friend told me they were able to shoot 5 per day, and that was because the birds were supplemented. They also packed your lunch, included dinner, etc.
You can even Google this to confirm it.
I know that's not your MO, and certainly not mine, I enjoy finding new covers and places to hunt by doing the work.
That's a great picture by the way, a stellar hunt. Looks like the weather is going to go in the crapper for a couple days, oh well , that's why they call it hunting.
Hope you can make it outsome more before the season ends.

All good Harold. Just messin’ with ya a bit. Perhaps the message should be….hunting very late season pheasants is difficult. Add public land with pointers and just 2 guys…..well, the odds just went down considerably.

I want to clarify my mention of pointers. As Garry Gordon says, “pheasants cheat”. Very few late season roosters hold for a point.

My buddy Terry does have a lab, and each day it has recovered a bird that my setters would not have found. Shot a bird yesterday that dropped both legs, flew across a slough and then died in mid air into heavy cattails. Leery about crossing a frozen lake, we tried to mark it and 2 hours later on the other side of the lake, told the dogs to hunt dead and Ski, Terry's lab found it.
No doubt labs are the best for late season and heavy cover. Maybe one day will have one, but already 4 dogs in the house.