Larry,
In that million pheasant article from years ago, I think that Pa. must have lied about having a million pheasant kill. Way too many birds for the areas that they would be in. Even with a state release of birds it could not have totaled 250,000 released birds. The eastern and southern part of the state out to Harrisburg and south to Carlisle would be the magority of the counties with a mostly wild population with the rest of the state having stocked birds. Above Route 80 now you are allowed to shoot hens and recently in my county of Berks in one area you are allowed to take hens with a daily bag of two.(good luck on any) I'm not 100% sure about the shooting of hens above Route 80 being in effect in the late 70's or 80's. but even if it was I can't believe there was ever a million pheasants harvested. That would probably account for at least 3-4 million total birds and that I definitly can't believe. That's getting close to S.D.
It was still nice going out and knowing that the dogs would at least find birds, mostly hens but it was good for them, as you know, the more birds the better the dog.
