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

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

Duke the shorthair came to this outfitter the day before as a started dog. What the heck, we took him along. By the end of the day he was starting to look like a bird dog. This first foray into some Montana creek bottoms was led by his Irish Red Setter kennelmate and boy was it fun. FYI: New sponsor Heartland Lodge in Illinois has an early-bird special – save $500 and get a goodie basket with every booking including a Heartland hat! Heartland has acquired even more grounds (a lush mix of CRP, crops, creek bottoms and woodlands) and is building new kennels for guest dogs. Check it out here https://www.heartlandlodge.com/.../se... There may be an opening to hunt with me Sept. 21-22 … contact Heartland if you're interested.

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Everything you wanted to know about hunting pheasants in South Dakota, explained by a local expert. Casey Weismantel is executive director of the Aberdeen, SD Convention & Visitors Bureau, ugly dog owner and avid pheasant hunter.He's got answers to our questions about best times to go, maximizing the public-access options, planning your hunt and he'll even help us with some non-resident license hacks. We talk best habitat, how to manage a block-and-drive hunt, why spaniels are best (sometimes), and how pheasants behave in their natural environment and why we can't find them sometimes. (Or most times.) "Fix It" has another place for you to look for "mean seeds" on your dog, and listeners offer their reasons for using hand signals in the field.

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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