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Kansas Youth And Women Pheasant Hunt At Glen Elder Dec. 19
Applications due by Dec. 16.

Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks

GLEN ELDER, KS —-(AmmoLand.com)- On Dec. 19, the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP) and Pass It On – Outdoor Mentors, Inc., are sponsoring a pheasant hunt for youth and women at Glen Elder Reservoir.

Hunters will be selected from applicants, and as many as 60 may participate.

The event will begin early on Saturday, Dec. 19, with a hunter breakfast and safety meeting, then groups will move to various areas around Glen Elder Reservoir and hunt until noon. Lunch will be provided for hunt participants.

A free trap shoot will be held from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. just west of the Glen Elder Area Office. The trap shoot is open to anyone interested in attending but is targeted toward beginning shooters. Several “hero-celebrities” (military personnel recently returned from Iraq or Afghanistan) are expected to participate as mentors.

Women of any age and youth ages 11 through 16 are eligible to apply for this event. Hunting experience is not required, and shotguns and ammunition will be provided, if needed.

For applications, questions, or more information, contact Mike Nyhoff at the Glen Elder Area Office, 2131 180 Rd., Glen Elder, KS 67446 or phone 785-545-3345. The application deadline is Dec. 16.

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SD Pheasant Limits May Increase In December

South Dakota Fish, Game & Parks

Pierre, S.D. –-(AmmoLand.com)- Due to the delayed harvest of crops this fall, the South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Commission intends to act at its Dec. 3-4 meeting in Pierre on a proposal to raise the three-bird daily pheasant bag limit to five cock pheasants daily.

Under the proposal, the current 15-bird pheasant possession limit would increase to 25 male pheasants.

If adopted, the emergency rule would take effect Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009, and remain in place until the current pheasant season ends on Jan. 3, 2010.

“The ability of hunters to harvest pheasants in the first seven weeks of the 2009 pheasant hunting season has been severely inhibited by lack of row-crop harvest,” said GFP Secretary Jeff Vonk. “The weather patterns that led to this situation were not anticipated by the Commission when it adopted the pheasant season back in April.”

The adjustments in the daily limit and possession limit will not hurt overall pheasant numbers in future years because only cock pheasants may be harvested, Vonk said.

“As crops are taken from the fields, the refuge that pheasants found in oceans of cornfields will disappear, and birds will be concentrated in the remaining cover,” Vonk said. “The addition to the limits will allow hunters the ability to make up for opportunities that were lost in the first part of the season.”

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