The North Dakota pheasant opener is this weekend. We saw thousands of pheasants.
Sharptails are harder to hunt in my opinon. They don't run, but they will creep away. They post sentries in trees and when a flock is feeding, they will have a perimeter of sentries. They cackle when they take off and the whole flock will go. On pheasant, if you don't move, a pheasant flushed by another hunter will sometimes fly within range of you, but sharptails will see you, moving or not, and will avoid you. There is unlimited cover for sharpies but if you can find alfalfa fields, they like to eat that. They also like ripe autumn olives, we found them in that, and rose hips. They prefer low brush covered slopes where they take off downhill. 40-60 yard shots are common. Always interesting guiding for sharptails, I've usually found them, but finding them in large numbers and getting them in the bag is another matter, and you cover a lot of ground to find them.
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