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Message: <blockquote data-quote="zoops" data-source="post: 188394" data-attributes="member: 790">Hunting is far down the list when it comes to threats to pheasant numbers.  Habitat and weather are about 95% of the equation.  Plenty of areas that 10 years ago were plumb full of pheasants that now have next to none - it ain't because they were all shot.- - - Updated - - -Found this while searching a bit for an answer to Ahab's question - man that would have been fun!!!  My grandma that grew up in Wahpeton and had family near Hankinson has referred to the spectacular pheasant hunting of that era...While North Dakota's rooster harvest just a few years ago was close to a million birds, the absolute best pheasant days were decades before that in the 1940s. Harvest was estimated in the millions from 1940-46, highlighted by nearly 2.5 million birds taken in both 1944 and 1945.From North Dakota OUTDOORS magazine in the mid-1940s: "We have never seen so many upland game birds since we have been in the state ... With an estimated upland game bird population of 15 million, it is going to be impossible to harvest the necessary number of birds ... The state could stand to harvest 7.5 million birds. It is estimated that there will be about 20,000 licenses sold this fall, and therefore the Department has been making an effort to interest more nonresident hunters to come to North Dakota."Department records show that the average hunter shot more than 34 pheasants per season from 1942-45. In 2011, the average hunter bagged just more than eight birds for the season.</blockquote>

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