* South-central North Dakota had little rain this summer. Grasslands hunted in past years were too short or sparse this fall, or had been mowed for hay. We hunted a lot of standing corn, moving ...

Ashley, N.D. - This is the way pheasant hunting is supposed to look: An endless canvas of North Dakota grass, a blaze-orange ribbon of hunters moving across the land, a trio of dogs working ahead of ...

WEST FARGO — As September settles in and we inch closer to fall, some hunters have enjoyed August goose hunting, the opening of archery deer and dove hunting. For anxious October pheasant hunters in ...

Oct. 5—North Dakota's regular pheasant season opens Saturday, Oct. 12. Here's what you need to know. * Saturday, Oct. 12, through Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025. Shooting hours are one-half hour before sunrise ...

Sep. 30—North Dakota's pheasant season starts Saturday, Oct.7. Here's what you need to know. * Saturday, Oct. 7 through Sunday, Jan. 7. Shooting hours are 30 minutes before sunrise to sunset. * In ...

North Dakota's pheasant season will open a week earlier this fall under a new law passed by the North Dakota Legislature. The state Game and Fish Department had proposed an Oct. 14 opener before SB ...

A midsummer drought affected chick survival, but hunters in South Dakota should see a season comparable to last year's, when hunters took 1.9 million birds. The drought was most severe in the central ...

LUDDEN, N.D. - The scene made Ernie Mathias smile. As a trio of hunters and a yellow Labrador worked a series of small cattail sloughs, a farmer combining corn nearby rousted dozens of roosters and ...

Jun. 26—BISMARCK — North Dakota's spring pheasant counts are up 6% statewide from last year, the Game and Fish Department said Thursday, June 26, in reporting results from its 2025 spring crowing ...