Getting Ready For Pheasant Hunting Season

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The team at Westervelt Lodge is always ready to facilitate the most successful and fun hunting seasons. For the upcoming pheasant hunting season, they are once again ready to welcome seasoned pheasant hunters and newbies to the field. This is a team that considers customer care as one of the main pillars of their tremendous success in the field. When it comes to hunting, sharing information, advice and tips surely fall into the category of service delivery. Therefore, they provide some of the most vital tips you should know when you are in the process to gear up for your first pheasant shooting trip.

The most important tip they want to share is that it is vital to keep the noise levels down to the absolute minimum when you are out hunting. The smallest noise of a boot stepping too harshly on branches or sticks or maybe even a door that was closed too loudly is all it takes to scare the pheasant to depart in a rapid flight and bringing your hunting session to an end. However, this doesn’t mean now you must remain silent for the entire hunting trip. If you do need to talk, just do so softly, in a whisper as this would ...
... still be safe.

You might want to consider sleeping in rather than being out at dawn if you want to be successful in your hunt. It is a common misconception that hunters need to be out early if they want to enjoy a day of successful hunting. You might also find that certain hunting parties prefer to step out early into the field so that they can be back early in the afternoon cracking jokes and sharing stories around a crackling fire. However, what they might be missing is most likely an abundance of pheasants out just before dawn to get a final feed for the day. This is often the time when the most are out in the field and it makes perfect sense to postpone your hunting excursion to slightly later in the day.

Patience is far more than a virtue when you are in the hunting field. It is also your key to success and many roosters still roaming the wild can testify of exactly that. Hunters that get impatient start to move too fast, make too much noise and chase away their birds. Remember that these birds are used to outsmarting prey and it is rather easy for them to hide away in spots where you can just walk past them and miss the opportunity, quite simply because you approached them with too much noise. Rather make sure that you walk slowly through the vegetation and follow a zigzag pattern. This would enable you to catch the pheasant off their guard and give you the chance to sneak up on an unexpecting bird.

It is not always beneficial to be the first in the field when hunting season opens. This team has witnessed many far more successful hunts later in the season as the birds are then more used to having people around and they are more relaxed when there is movement in the field. Yes, later in the season, you might have to face far more severe temperatures, but so does the birds, making for an easier hunt to get you the success you desire.

While most of what you would need to know about pheasant hunting, you’ll be able to learn from various sources in the industry. However, it is these tricks that the team shares that will bring you the success you might not have expected to occur during your first trip.

About Us:
Our hunting history at the Westervelt Lodge dates back as far as 1951 when we hosted our first deer hunting trip. On that day in November, 78 hunters and six dogs gathered and in total, they managed to take down three bucks. Yet, although we still remember the exact weight of these bucks, it wasn’t what stuck with us. No, it was the fun and the amazing experience we shared in the field out hunting. It is the same amazing hunting experience that we still offer today to our visiting hunters and it is what keeps them returning year after year. You can visit our website at https://westerveltlodge.com/ and explore more of our rich history stretching over almost 70 years and then maybe add your part to the story of hunting at the Westervelt Lodge.

Westervelt Lodge is one of the last remaining large hunting properties in the southeast. The 12,000 acres of contiguous land is nestled along the Tombigbee River in west Alabama. At Westervelt Lodge in Alabama you will find opportunity to hunt deer, turkey, pheasant white-tailed deer, dove, quail and many other species. To make your hunting experience unforgettable visit best hunting lodge in Alabama.