AS NOVEMBER HEADS TOWARDS DECEMBER, THE PHEASANT HUNTING WILL CHANGE AS MANY OF THOSE YOUNG OF THE YEAR BIRDS HAVE ALREADY BEEN HARVESTED

IN THE COLDER MOINTHS, BIRDS HAVE A TENDANCY TO FLOCK TOGETHER, NOT ONLY FOR PROTECTION, BUT ALSO FOR WARMTH.

DURING THE LATE SEASON, MOST OF THOSE CLOSELY PLANTED ROWS OF CORN HAVE BEEN HARVESTED. WITH THE BIRDS MOVING INTO THE CRP AND GRASSES.

HUNTERS WILL NEED TO CHANGE THEIR TACTICS IN ORDER TO GET CLOSE ENOUGH FOR A SHOT AT THESE LATE SEASON ROOSTERS.

YEARS AGO, I HUNTED WITH A COUPLE OF HUNTERS IN NEBRASKA, ONE WAS ALWAYS YELLING AT HIS DOG TO GET BACK IN FRONT OF HIM, EVEN THE DOG WAS BIRDY AND TRACKING A RUNNER.

ANOTHER WOULD RUN AFTER HIS LAB, WHICH WAS NOT ONLY DANGEROUS, BUT SPOOKED EVERY BIRD IN THE FIELD BEFORE ANY OF THE OTHER HUNTERS EVEN GOT CLOSE ENOUGH FOR A SHOT.

NEDLESS TO SAY, IT ONLY HAPPENED ONE TIME, BEFORE THEY NO LONGER BECAME PART OF OUR HUNTING GROUP.

LATE SEASON IS THE TIME, WHEN HUNTERS NEED TO ENTER THE FIELD QUIETLY, WHILE THE OUTSIDE WING MNEN WILL GET A SHOT AT THOSE BIRDS THAT HAVE RUN AHEAD OF THE DOGS AND HUNTERS, WHEN THE BIRD FLUSHES FROM THE OUTSIDE EDGE.

ONE THING THAT I USED DURING LATE SEASON HUNTING WAS A HAWK CALL, WHICH I BLEW NOW AND AGAIN, AS BIRDS WHEN THEY HEAR A HAWK CALL, HAVE A TENDANCY TO HUNKER DOWN AND NOT GO AIRBORNE, GIIVING MY DOG AND I A BETTER OPPORTUNITY TO GET CLOSE ENOUGH BEFORE THE BIRD FLUSHES1

THOSE THAT ARE BLOCKING NEED TO PARK AWAYS FROM THE END OF THE FIELD AND QUIETLY MOVE INTO POSITION, AS THERE ARE ALWAYS BIRDS THAT ARE FORCED FROM THE COVER BY THE WALKERS AND THEIR DOGS AND WILL RUN TOWARDS THE END, BURSTING FROM THE COVER, ALLOWING THE BLOCKERS AND WING MEN TO GET A SHOT AT THEM.