What once was arguably the biggest day on the hunting calendar – and might still be in some pockets – arrives Friday. That’s when the season opens for rabbits, ring-necked pheasants and bobwhite quail ...

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Hunters can apply to hunt on Wildlife Management Areas for duck and quail through Oct. 15. And applications for wood duck ...

The beauty of upland hunting lies in its simplicity. It’s a walk with a gun. Your goal is to frighten ground-dwelling birds into flight, so you can shoot them. Even if you don’t find anything, you’ve ...

During his early quail-hunting days, most of the landscape was pine savannah -- tall, towering, scattered pine trees with thin underbrush that provided plenty of ground cover for predator-fleeing ...