Debate is on about hunting pen-raised pheasants in South Dakota
Will South Dakota's pheasant hunting scene — already laced with nearly 500,000 farm-raised birds — increasingly rely on artificial propagation?
By Tony Kennedy
Star Tribune
November 20, 2018 — 9:11am
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IPSWICH, S.D. -- A rooster jetted out of the corn stalks as soon as Mike Ward and Jax, his German shorthaired pointer, pushed into the crop a quarter-mile away.
The bird flew low and straight, rising over a row of cedar trees that concealed two other hunters. One of them, Mike’s father, stepped out of the pines with a raised shotgun. He ended an otherwise crafty getaway with a single blast.