Conservation group Pheasants Forever/Quail Forever has actually introduced a complimentary online video series and how-to course focused on motivating novice hunters to attempt upland bird hunting.
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module has something for both newbie and skilled hunters.
The objective of Modern Carnivore, according to its website, “is to awaken the hunter that lives inside you” while presenting individuals to “hunting, fishing and foraging to promote a deeper understanding of wild places and our connection to them.”
The “Hunter Stories” part of the course includes a series of hunting story videos: “Family Traditions,” about a ruffed grouse and woodcock hunt in Maine; “Minnesota Nice,” with Keng Yang, a Minnesota pheasant hunter, member of the Twin Cities Hmong neighborhood and creator of the minnesota-hunter.com website; “Reviving and Reshaping Traditions,” about a Georgia northern bobwhite quail hunt; “Women Who Hunt,” including
Cayla Bendel of the North Dakota Game and Fish Department
hunting Hungarian partridge and pheasant; and “Hunters in Unlikely Places,” about a valley quail hunt in California.
The Hunting Lessons part of the course concentrates on “Bird Basics,” “Hunting Equipment,” “Pre-hunt Preparation,” “Post-hunt Responsibilities” and “Hunting Culture.” Upland types included in the hunting lessons are ring-necked pheasants, ruffed grouse, woodcock, quail, and Hungarian (gray) partridge.
Contributed / Cayla Bendel, North Dakota Game and Fish Department
The video series is indicated to be “educational but also very entertaining in the process,” says Bendel, a devoted outdoorswoman and R3 planner for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department. R3 represents “recruitment, retention and reactivation” of hunters, anglers and shooting sports individuals.
The course can be seen in sectors or simultaneously and will take a minimum of 2 hours to finish.
“There’s a lot of great educational content” in the series, Bendel said in an interview. “It was intentionally designed to cover diverse landscapes and quarry, but also just different people that come to the sport and why. The hope is that someone interested in upland hunting sees a piece of themselves in one of the stories, at least. And I think it’s cool that it’s educational, but done so in a pretty entertaining way.”
In the North Dakota video, Mark Norquist, the publisher and creator of Modern Carnivore, checks out the state on among the coldest, windiest, most unpleasant weeks of in 2015’s upland video game season. He handles to bag a Hungarian partridge throughout a blustery day afield, however the pheasants were evasive.
The North Dakota video likewise highlights the
Capital City Lady Birds Pheasants Forever chapter,
the only all-female PF chapter in the state and among just a handful across the country. Bendel, who was working for Pheasants Forever in 2018 when the chapter was established, said the chapter has more than 100 members from as far as Jamestown.
“We operate just like a regular chapter but just really focus on getting women interested in hunting and shooting,” Bendel said. “It’s been a cool journey.
“I feel like one big challenge we’re learning with these women’s chapters is a lot of us are young working moms and maybe a little busier or have a lot more going on than the retired guys that make up a lot of our traditional chapters, but we’ve found a way.”
Especially popular, Bendel says, is the females’s wingshooting centers the chapter uses at the Capital City Sporting Clays variety in Bismarck. Open to 12 females, the three-part center consists of both class and personal shooting direction and remains in its 5th summer season, Bendel says.
The chapter, it might be said, is a best example of how to effectively link females with the shooting sports and hunting.
“It’s awesome the heavy women’s presence we’ve had out there at the sporting clays range this summer,” Bendel said. “I feel like it’s turned some heads – ‘why are all these women here?’ – and it’s been really cool.”
The Hunting Stories videos are perfectly recorded, however reasonable at the very same time in informing the story that hunters often come home empty-handed. No ruffed grouse were shot throughout the Maine hunt, for instance, and extreme weather most likely played into the absence of pheasant success throughout Norquist’s check out to North Dakota and his day afield with Bendel.
“That’s hunting, so I’m glad some of that really came across,” Bendel said. “I wish just in general across the board we’d gotten a few more birds.
“I don’t want to set unrealistic expectations for new hunters, either. Obviously, sometimes, that’s how it goes.”
To register and sign up for the
course, go to
www.pheasantsforever.org/howtohunt
.
