On The Wing Podcast Ep. 299: Will Primos on Donating Purdey Shotgun Collection to Conservation, is live. Listen now at the link below or wherever you get your podcasts. https://bit.ly/40pWvbA Host Bob St.Pierre visits with Will Primos near his home in Mississippi following a gathering to shoot Primos’ collection of custom-made Purdey shotguns. Primos collection, which includes .410, 28, 20, 16, and 12 gauges, will be auctioned in December 2025 with proceeds shared by Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever, Congressional Sportsman’s Foundation, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, Ducks Unlimited, and National Wild Turkey Foundation. Episode Highlights: - Primos talks about how his game call business and his popular television show, “Primos TRUTH About Hunting,” both got started. - Primos also talks about his love of wingshooting, particularly his fondness for Mearns’ quail hunting in Arizona. - The donation of Primos’ Purdey shotguns is being organized by the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation and will be auctioned through Rock Island Auction Company in December 2025. The On The Wing Podcast is fueled by Purina Pro Plan

Several states across the country recently received huge amounts of snow and ice accompanied by frigid temps🥶 Take a look at what our Regional Representative for East Central Kansas, Mika Rezac, has to say on what this weather means for our favorite upland birds today and this spring!

Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever are thrilled to introduce Clay Newcomb – writer, filmmaker, mule-skinner, hound trainer, artist, conservationist and trad archer – as the keynote speaker and featured guest for the 2025 National Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic celebration dinner. Passes are now available to hear Newcomb’s message at the Friday Night Upland Rally on March 7th, and attend the nation’s foremost upland hunting and conservation tradeshow coming to the Kansas City Convention Center in Kansas City on March 7-9. Passes are limited, get yours today at the link below. https://bit.ly/4fq78A0

Welcome to the Upland Newsroom, we hope everyone enjoyed the holidays! Some seasons have come to a close, while others are still ongoing. To wrap up 2024, please send us some of your favorite photos from the field by dropping them in the comments or messaging us on social. We will choose some to be shared in a recap of an incredible year! Other topics include: Late season upland opportunities. Our 2024 Impact Report is available now, highlighting all the incredible milestones in conservation our members, chapters, and supporters have helped achieve over this past year. You can find the latest Impact Report a pheasantsforever.org/impact Passes are available for the greatest upland event of the year, National Pheasant Fest and Quail Classic, Happening March 7th – 9th in Kansas City. You can also get passes for other events that weekend, including the 2nd annual Concert for Conservation, the Women on the Wing Brunch, and our National Banquet. We hope to see you all there! Link: pheasantfest.org

Don't miss out on the biggest concert of the year, the 2025 Concert for Conservation featuring Muscadine Bloodline, along with Chester Floyd! Passes are available now at the link below! https://www.pheasantsforever.org/Pheasant-Fest/Muscadine-Bloodline.aspx Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever, in partnership with Pepper Entertainment, are proud to announce the second annual Concert for Conservation, featuring Muscadine Bloodline at the Uptown Theater on Thursday, March 6th in Kansas City, MO. Kicking off our weekend festivities ahead of National Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic, all concert proceeds will benefit PF and QF’s upland conservation mission. Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever's second annual Concert for Conservation is sponsored by onX Hunt , Purina Pro Plan, Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Co., Pepper Entertainment, and Mammoth Muscadine Bloodline

USDA’s Natural Resource Conservation Service Working Lands for Wildlife’s (WLFW) ongoing mission is to restore habitat for wildlife while benefitting landowners. As part of the WLFW Northern Bobwhite, Grasslands & Savannas framework, it is important to evaluate how management practices are working. To accomplish this, Quail Forever has partnered with the University of Georgia to establish a range-wide outcomes assessment protocol. Outcomes assessments are conducted throughout the year in threefold: spring point counts, summer vegetation surveys and fall covey counts. While all these surveys are critically important, fall covey counts stand out as one of the more complex yet valuable surveys. Fall covey counts refer to the process of listening and counting bobwhite covey calls from mid-October through the first week of December, according to Brittany Welch, Quail Forever (QF) bobwhite and grassland birds outcomes assessment coordinator. To learn more about the importance of Fall Covey Counts, Read "HOW FALL COVEY COUNTS TRACK THE IMPACT OF HABITAT RESTORATION" by WLFW Regional Communication Specialist Rachel Holt, at the link below. https://quailforever.org/BlogLanding/Blogs/Quail-Forever/How-fall-covey-counts-track-the-impact-of-habitat-restoration.aspx