Three Keys to Good Scattergun Shooting for Fall Pheasants

It's a good thing I don't live in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas or even eastern Montana. Or for that matter, in the Texas Panhandle either.

Why? Because pheasant seasons are opening up all throughout the Midwest, the Great Plains and the rolling foothills of the Rocky Mountain west.

Truth be told, if I lived in such spots, places where I could be a full-time pheasant hunter rather than the part-time wannabe that I am, well, I'd probably be ruined to the point of being a wing-shooting nimrod in danger of his wife finally deciding that it’s high time to change the locks on the doors once and for all.

For a shotgun hunting enthusiast like me, pheasant season is...