Find Bird Hunting Spots

Where to hunt, how-to advice, and helping your dog excel

Find a place to hunt upland game birds.

How to hunt upland birds: Tips for success, advice and suggestions.

Public pheasant hunting - other walk-in bird hunting spots. Finding bird hunting spots.

Start here for advice on how to find bird hunting spots: public, private, and everything in between. Find walk-in bird hunting, wildlife areas and other options. Where to hunt? Right here!

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How to hunt upland birds: Tips for success, advice and suggestions.

How to hunt upland birds. Finding bird hunting walk-in areas. Finding bird hunting spots

Ready to grow as a hunter? Learning where to hunt is Step One. Then, want to learn how to hunt? Or are you just looking for that one helpful tip? Here's the place to start to succeed in the field.

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Your best hunting buddy: care & feeding of your bird dog

How to hunt upland birds: Tips for success, advice and suggestions.

Your best hunting buddy: care & feeding of your bird dog

Prep your dog for finding bird hunting spots. Public land and Walk-in hunting tips for dog owners.

Once you find a bird hunting spot, your dog is your most important partner. Where to hunt? Your dog knows! Here are training tips, care and feeding advice and more.

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Videos and podcasts

Have you ever thought about how your mind works when you shoot a shotgun? "Aiming," versus pointing, "swing through" or some other style, foot position, one eye or two? No matter your preference, your head needs to "see" the shotgun muzzle, right? Not overtly, but subconciously.

PS: Want more educational videos, tips, tricks and tactics? Go here.

Want more shooting tips? Here's 90 of them in my new e-booklet: https://findbirdhuntingspots.com/shop/ols/products/when-all-else-fails--wingshooting-tips

Down to brass tacks we go with writer, editor, publisher Jim Matthews. He's been helping desert hunters find publicly-accessible game birds since the nineties, and he'll dial us in to finding some of the spots, strategies and tactics we need for valley and Gambel's quail, chukars, and the occasional mountain quail. Jim will take us from habits to habitat, what to look for when scouting (we could all do more of this, he says), and where to look when a place is "shot out." Jim also keys us to his four-step bird-finding formula, how rain, snow, wind, cold and heat affect bird hunting, and suggests a couple pieces of gear most of us don't carry but should. "Handle It" helps Jon Schwedler slow down his setter and use her nose better; and listeners share the length of their hunting trips - see where you stand! And it's all brought to you by: Sage & Braker Mercantile, Pointer shotguns,, @midwayusa, #midwayusa, Midway USA, Mid Valley Clays and Shooting School, TrulockChokes, HiViz shooting systems, Purina Pro Plan Sport and FindBirdHuntingSpots.com. You can listen to all the podcasts here.

Welcome. more access = more hunters = more conservation.

Why this website? Find bird hunting spots ... sounds easy, but it's more complicated than the statement above, with a lot of moving parts. But it's also absolutely true. Lack of accessible land is the biggest reason many of us quit hunting or never start in the first place. My hope is this website will help - because without hunters, there is virtually no conservation.

But that's not all ... there's the country's most widely-distributed upland hunting TV show, a podcast, educational video library, and weekly newsletter full of fun and information (sign up below).

- Scott Linden