Like what Dig said. I've shot one preserve where I shot some pheasants and some chukkar behind some dogs. I'll not do it again, unless I am training a dog, letting a new hunter try out bird hunting, or if someone convinces me that their preserve is truely challenging... I don't don't that there are good preserves out there and I have no objections to other people doing it. Also I don't "look down" on people who do hunt them.

However, I don't object to state released pheasants and I've shot a few of them. Also I enjoy driven shooting and have shot partridges and pheasants raised the way Dig mentioned. No its not hunting, but its fine sport and by no means easy.