Depends on the species and what you're going to do with the birds. Back in the mid-80's I spent a lot of time hunting a very large (by Iowa standards) farm that was nearly all in CRP. And it was surrounded by farms that were nearly all in crops. It was a real pheasant magnet. There were about a dozen kids in the farm family, and they liked pheasants. I gave them a lot of birds. Also had a neighbor at that time who was a part time butcher/part time preacher. I gave them birds as well. They weren't hunters, but they raised chickens so didn't need much instruction in cleaning pheasants, although I did tell them they could skin the pheasants rather than plucking them. Late 80's into the 90's, I taught French at Iowa State University. The French Club put on an annual French banquet for the faculty and students. They approached me about shooting rabbits for them. I told them I didn't shoot rabbits, but said I could give them pheasants. They were ecstatic.

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