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PF Long Life Members
Friday, December 30th, 2011
Pheasants Forever Life Members, from left, Marco, Mateo and Emilia.
Pheasants Forever Life Member John Surma from Kountze, Texas thinks very highly of Pheasants Forever’s wildlife habitat conservation mission, enough that he’s purchased PF Life Memberships for his niece and nephews. Five-year-old Mateo, and two-year-old twins, Marco and Emilia, were gifted Life Memberships, and the trio proudly wear their Rudy the Rooster (PF’s youth mascot) stocking caps. No matter where life takes these youngsters, they’ll always receive the Pheasants Forever Journal!
For more information about Pheasants Forever Life Membership – at any age – visit www.pheasantsforever.org/join.
Field Notes are written and compiled by Anthony Hauck Pheasants Forever’s Online Editor. Email Anthony at AHauck@pheasantsforever.org and follow him on Twitter @AnthonyHauckPF.
Pheasant Hunting Tips (And More) in the Next Pheasants Forever Journal
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
The cover shot of the Winter 2011 issue of the Pheasants Forever Journal.
There is some great advice in the upcoming Winter Issue of the Pheasants Forever Journal (mailed Oct. 26) for the pheasant hunter, including:
- Pheasants Forever’s “Gun Dogs” writer Tom Davis, out of Green Bay, Wisconsin, penned a great piece for us on late season hunting, but his advice applies to any time of year. One simple tip: Don’t approach public areas from the parking lot like everybody else. You’ll find out the proper “how to” from Tom in a couple weeks.
- Frequent Pheasants Forever shooting contributor John Taylor will provide some good tips on coated ammo, what it’s good for and what it’s not.
- Idaho writer and outdoor celeb Ron Spomer gives a rare, detailed look at wing shooting in Argentina. (One thought: Don’t bring a .28 gauge.)
- Look for our first “Wild Game Cooking” special section. Hey, cooking is getting bigger all the time, and far be it for us to miss a fun trend. The pictures alone will have you drooling.
- On the conservation side, check out Dave Smith’s inside look at where the country’s marquee upland habitat effort, the Conservation Reserve Program, is heading.
As I do each fall, I’ll be visiting and hunting upland birds with Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever chapters in west central Minnesota, western Iowa, central Kansas, central Texas, far southwest Nebraska, eastern North Dakota and a unique Pheasants Forever project on the south end of South Dakota’s Black Hills. We’ve told you how pheasant numbers are down this year, but don’t count out our chapter’s ability to find the birds anyway. I’m hoping for a good year.
The Winter Issue of the Pheasants Forever Journal is only for current Pheasants Forever members. Expired or non-members have until October 15 to join Pheasants Forever and ensure they receive it. To check on your membership status, call Pheasants Forever toll free at (877) 773-2070.
The Nomad blog is written by Mark Herwig, Editor of the Pheasants Forever Journal. Email Mark at MHerwig@pheasantsforever.org.
Pheasants Forever Journal, Summer 2011 Issue Preview
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
The Pheasant Forever Journal, Summer 2011 issue cover.
While spring is seemingly having a hard time “springing” in most parts of pheasant country, summer can’t be far off. In fact, the Summer 2011 issue of the Pheasants Forever Journal of Upland Conservation mails today.
The first thing readers will notice is the original cover artwork. The Brittany pup was created by Atlanta, Georgia, artist Peggy Watkins, and represents the first time since the Winter 2008 issue that art has appeared on the cover. Prior to that, artwork last appeared on the cover for the Fall 2002 issue.
Now back to the Brittany. Making its first appearance on the Pheasants Forever Journal cover in 5 years, the Brit is representing all sporting dog breeds, as this issue contains a Sporting Dog Special Section. Check it out for training tips (especially timely if you’re the lucky owner of a new pup) and new bird dog gear.
In addition to a pheasant hunting photo essay, upland hunters will also enjoy Pheasants Forever Journal Editor Mark Herwig’s entry “Woodcock Conservation” about hunting and getting to know the American Woodcock (a thicker preview can be found at Mark’s blog). There are some surprising similarities between woodcock and pheasants, which is why it makes the grade for the pheasant publication.
Finally, conservation policy wonks can dig in to “Celebrating CRP’s 25th Anniversary” and “Will WRP Survive Congressional Cuts?” These programs – the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) and Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP) – do as much for pheasants and pheasant hunters as any, so if you aren’t already, this is a prime opportunity to become familiar.
The next issue of the Pheasants Forever Journal will be the highly anticipated Pheasant Hunting Preview edition slated for later this summer. Don’t miss an issue, so if it’s time to join or renew your Pheasants Forever membership, call toll free at (877) 773-2070 or do so right here at the Pheasants Forever website.
Anthony’s Antics Afield is written by Anthony Hauck, Pheasants Forever’s Online Editor
No Blood? No Guts? The Glory Behind Columbia’s PF Shooting Shirt
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Columbia's PF Shooting Shirt B&G Superlight
In college, I ran off a streak of more than two consecutive weeks without washing my hair. It began as a bet amongst roomies, but what they didn’t know is I’d have done it without chance at a payday. I enjoy getting dirty.
Now slightly tamed by reality, the partial appeal of hunting and fishing is the chance to be a big kid, get outside and collect grime. My reprieve this summer was a one-week trip to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. This remote, serene location helped cleanse my mind… but that was all it cleansed. While I deteriorated into the dirt bag of the trip, my uncle and two cousins stayed almost scrubbed for surgery in their Columbia Sportswear Performance Fishing Gear (PFG) shirts and pants which featured Columbia’s Omni technologies. Underneath my filth, sweat, sunscreen, mosquito bites, fish gut stains and food stains was an antiseptic mind that was jealous.
Luckily for me, Columbia and Pheasants Forever have partnered for a new addition to Pheasants Forever’s store, the blaze orange Columbia Shooting Shirt B&G Superlight. The “B&G” stands for Blood ‘N Guts, as in Columbia’s Omni-Shield Blood ‘N Guts technology that “resists guts and releases bloodstains, keeping you clean and protected in the wild.”
The one drawback to this Blood ‘N Guts science is that bird hunters wear the rag tag look with a sense of pride. Lucky hunting caps remain charmed by staying a safe distance from the wash room. Outerwear becomes so soiled and rank that panhandling doesn’t appear far off. Like a baseball player with a dirty uniform, the well worn look says “I know how to play the game.” My first trip on assignment for the Pheasants Forever Journal three years ago was to hunt with the Peaceful Valley PF chapter in northwest North Dakota. I’d just acquired a new upland wardrobe, and my biggest fear was the chapter members would take one look at my bright, shiny and blood-less attire and laugh me all the way back to the Twin Cities.
They didn’t, and we had a great time. Hey, the clothes don’t make the man. So I’ll give the new Columbia shooting shirt a try, and try harder to see if I can actually get it dirty.
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