Wingshooter Rig Walkthrough presented by onX Hunt, Pheasants Forever, and Quail Forever. This Wingshooter Rig Walkthrough features PF & QF’s very own Rich Wissink, giving us the rundown on his upland rig and its features that assist the traveling wingshooter. Stay tuned for more wingshooter rigs, to find ways you can build out an upland rig that best suits you and your dogs. Don’t forget to check out OnX’s in-dash capabilities at onxhunt.com #onxhunt #pheasantsforever #quailforever #uplandhunting #overland

Welcome to Elite Member Week! The Life Members of Pheasants Forever are a force like none other. They are the folks who go above and beyond for upland habitat. That’s why we’re celebrating the impact our Life Members have on our conservation efforts, during our annual Elite Member Week! Make the commitment of a lifetime, and become a Life Member today for wildlife and habitat conservation. When you do, we’re excited to offer those who join this elite group of conservationists an exclusive Pheasants Forever YETI GoBox 30 Gear Case as a sincere token of our appreciation for those who go above and beyond for our mission.🔗 Link in our bio to join today. Also don't forget about the stars of the show, your bird dogs! for a limited time when you sign your dogs up for a dog life membership, you will receive a limited addition PF Mud River Dog Handlers Bag. #pheasantsforever #pheasants #pheasanthunting #wildlifeconservation

Our talented Rooster Road Trip videographers Aaron Black-Schmidt and Jordan Darley weigh in on their favorite moments behind the lens from this year’s Road Trip. If you haven’t yet, go check out the entire Rooster Road Trip 2023 series at the link in our bio, and let us know your favorite moments in the comments. #pheasantsforever #pheasants #pheasanthunting #cameraman #roosterroadtrip

“That rooster was buried!” After seeing more wild-flushing pheasants than we could shake a shotgun at, a tight holding rooster is exactly what the doctor ordered. ICYMI, Rooster Road Trip’s “Nebraska Public Land Pheasants” is now streaming At the Rooster Road Trip link in our bio. #pheasantsforever #pheasants #pheasanthunting #roosterroadtrip2023

Hunting our way through the last day of the 2023 Rooster Road Trip, it was natural to reflect back on the whirlwind of a week we had just experienced. The amazing points, the incredible flushes, the occasional missed shots and the abundant shared laughs and high fives… But It's important to keep things in perspective - to have your feet solidly planted on the ground and your eyes trained on the horizon. You have to realize that amazing public land hunting opportunities exist throughout our country while also acknowledging there’s more work to be done. We must continue advocating for robust public access policy and programs, we have to contribute time, talent, and resources to permanently protected and publicly accessible acres of high-quality habitat – and we have to stand up and speak loudly for the silent landscapes that mean so much to all of us. View the fourth and final 2023 Rooster Road Trip photo gallery to see more behind the scenes action brought to you by our dedicated members, supporters, partners, and sponsors at the link in our bio. 📸: @blackschmidt @j_darls @loganhinners #pheasantsforever #pheasanthunting #pheasants #roosterroadtrip2023

Pheasant Fact Friday!💡 Pheasant surveys conducted by state wildlife agencies do not stop with winter. When snow makes the birds easier to see and count, it is time to do "sex ratio counts" (# of roosters per 100 hens). Methods commonly used are the Flushing Count, and the Roadway Count. The roadway count is used more often than the flushing count. The sex ratio is needed for: 1) Converting "spring crowing counts" into breeding population indices. Knowing the crowing count (# roosters in the breeding population), and the sex ratio (roosters per hen), you can estimate the breeding population. 2) Converting "cock age ratios" (# young cocks per adult cock in the hunting season) to "chicks per hen" in the fall. The "chicks per hen" then indicates what percent of the chicks hatched last spring died before hunting season. 3) Estimating what percent of the fall roosters were harvested. #pheasantsforever #pheasants #pheasanthunting #pheasantfactfriday

On The Wing Podcast Ep. 241: Rooster Road Trip Proves Nebraska Never Disappoints, is live. Listen now at the link in our bio, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is the fourth episode of PF’s 14th annual Rooster Road Trip. Host Bob St.Pierre is joined by PF & QF’s Vice President of Marketing Andrew Vavra, Design Director Logan Hinners, and Social Media Strategist Nate Akey to recap the final day of this year’s adventure in Nebraska. Episode Highlights: - The conversation starts with the group reminiscing around Rooster Road Trip’s origin story as an experiment for social media that has burgeoned into the PF’s largest online event and a driver of significant unrestricted revenue for the organization’s wildlife habitat mission. The crew also have some fun talking about the Threads social media mash-up around the launch of the films Barbie and Oppenheimer earlier this summer. - Hinners and Akey talk about their young pup’s evolution as bird dogs over the course of the weeklong Rooster Road Trip and how wild birds are invaluable to their progression. - And Vavra, the only person to have participated in all 14 Rooster Road Trip adventures, declares this year the “birdiest” Rooster Road Trip of all. #pheasantsforever #pheasanthunting #pheasants #roosterroadtrip #onthewingpodcast

Now Streaming: Nebraska Public Land Pheasants | 2023 Rooster Road Trip Ep. 4. Link in our bio to watch now. It all boiled down to this. After traveling through three states and racking up hundreds of miles, we found ourselves approaching the finish line of our marathon through the heartland – and we were hoping to finish with a bang. Keying in on what we observed the previous day, we decided to focus on somewhat isolated Nebraska Open Fields and Waters properties that represented safe havens of habitat butted-up against harvested ag fields. Our thinking was “if there are birds to be found in this area – that’s where they’ll be.” Watch the full final episode of this year’s travels through the heartland to see if we were right! A HUGE SHOUTOUT to our Rooster Road Trip sponsors: @irishsetterboots @soundgear_official @ruff_land_kennels @browningfirearms @federalpremium @yeti @leupold_optics @appleautosmn @garminfishhunt #pheasantsforever #pheasanthunting #uplanfhunting #pheasants #roosterroadtrip2023