Went out to Scott City last weekend. Hunted private ground for two and half days. Saw around two hundred birds a day, missed a lot of birds and a lot were wild. Three of the four guys were newbies to pheasant hunting so there were lots of good laughs at there atempts to shoot birds. Between four of us I think we had around twenty birds. Never saw a single quail or chicken. Does anyone use the remington nitro pheasant loads? I shot them all weekend and cant remember a trip where I had hit so many birds and watched them keep flying. I usually shoot #5 fiochi golden pheasants and have always had good luck with them. Got the nitros for free so I tried them and probably wont go back to them. I might be crazy and it makes no difference on shells but I gotta blame it on something.