North dakota

[steve04]

Has anybody been pheasant hunting around Williston, North Dakota? My cousin just moved there for work and we want to go pheasant hunting there. Any advice?

[Branden]

I don't see as many that far north as I do down south. I would hunt south of I94 if I had the choice

[wildweeds]

Guy who retired from work a few months ago has been going to Mott area for 10 years or so,lotsa birds.

[huntingfool7]

Go!  NoDak has birds and access.  Lots of PLOTS (private lands open to sportsman) land available to hunt. 

[280ackley]

Regent has thousands.  Or at least it seemed that way a couple of years back.

[huntingfool7]

http://gf.nd.gov/publications/television/outdoors-online-webcast
NoDak July crowing counts.

[Blackjaw]

It is nice to go to a place (North Dakota/South Dakota) that actually cares about pheasant hunters. As someone pointed out, the PLOTS maps for North Dakota are great. We normally hunt N. of 94 to avoid the Mott/Regent crowds (+a lot of the land down there is leased) and have done well on sharptails and pheasant. Also, we were able to get access to hunting a few places by knocking on the door and asking.

[eastsidemallard74]

Give yourself 1-2 years, go and pick up a Plots book, find some spots and go door knocking we hunt Elgin/Carson area every year. Theirs 7/8 of us, and we limit 'Quick". But we have some awesome farms to hunt. One we could seriously walk for 4 days if we wanted. The people in N Dakota are nice and will let you hunt,most will anyways.

[nryche]

I was just in North Dakota little over a month ago. We saw about 30 birds from our exit on I94 to New Rockford (its near Devils Lake). There were birds everywhere. we saw a few coyotes too. The farmers I talked with were more than happy to let you go shoot some birds.. Next time I go back I'll make it a point to go in Pheasant season.