New book looks perfect for pheasant hunters and their families

“Photographer and pheasant hunter Dale C. Spartas has put together a book that truly captures the excitement, fun, friendships, and challenges of hunting the wily ring-necked pheasant. It’s the perfect gift for the 2.3 million pheasant hunters in the United States.”

Howard Vincent, CEO of Pheasants Forever

“Pheasant hunters and their families across the country will love this book.”

Tom Davis, Pointing Dog Journal Editor-at-Large, Sporting Classics Senior Editor & Gun Dog Columnist

A big, new book is sure to grace a lot of coffee tables and kitchen tables in pheasant country this year. Rooster! A Tribute to Pheasant Hunting in North America is a vivid and personal portrait of one of North America’s great outdoor experiences. From small eastern coverts to vast western grain fields, pheasant hunting brings together families and friends, hunters and dogs, and guns and gear—all in pursuit of brilliantly colored magical birds.

The entire experience is captured in 160 extraordinary color photos by Dale C. Spartas, an award-winning photographer specializing in hunting, fishing, sporting dogs,

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and the outdoors. His unique photographic vision and skill created the enormously popular books Just Labs, Just Goldens, 101 Uses for a Lab, and The Little Book of Fly Fishing.

Rooster! is also loaded with information from a dozen of today’s finest outdoor writers. Readers will find field-tested advice on hunting techniques, guns, shooting, dogs, seasonal strategies, and more. Special emphasis is placed on conservation, land stewardship, and youth hunters. A unique chapter gathers 57 personal hunting tips from pheasant hunters across the country, and local experts provide detailed information about hunting in the top pheasant states of Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Minnesota.

In all, Rooster! is a full game bag of spectacular images and valuable information, a one-of-a-kind guidebook, memorable keepsake, and treasured gift for pheasant hunters everywhere.

Rooster! is endorsed by the conservation organization Pheasants Forever.

Rooster! is a “Midwest Favorite” of the Upper Midwest Booksellers Association.

Rooster! A Tribute to Pheasant Hunting in North America

By Dale C. Spartas

$39.95, 9 x 12 inches, 136 pages, 160 color photos, cloth hardcover with laminated dust jacket

ISBN 1-931832-32-3

Published by DCS Publishing, Bozeman, Montana

Distributed by Riverbend Publishing, Helena, Montana, toll-free 1-866-787-2363

The chapters and writers in Rooster!

Introduction: Trip to Pheasant Forever Land

Dale C. Spartas, award-winning photographer specializing in hunting, fishing, sporting dogs, and the outdoors, Contributing Photographer for Sports Afield and Gray's Sporting Journal. His books include Just Labs (Benjamin Franklin Photography Award winner), Just Goldens, 101 Uses for a Lab, and The Little Book of Fly Fishing.

The Thing About Pheasants

Michael McIntosh, Contributing Editor and Shooting Editor, Shooting Sportsman Magazine

The Pheasant Life

Jim Wooley, Pheasants Forever Senior Wildlife Biologist and 2002 Jeffery S. Finden Conservation Achievement Award winner

Tradition: Hunting With Friends and Family

Jim Wooley

Pheasant Dogs

Dave Carty, Western Region Editor, Hartland USA Magazine; Retriever Columnist, Ducks Unlimited Magazine

Guns and Shooting

Ron Spomer, Field Editor, American Hunter Magazine; Senior Editor, Sporting Classics Magazine

Three Seasons in One

Ron Spomer

Pheasants Now and Forever

Mark Herwig, Editor of Pheasants Forever Magazine

Hunting Tips

Hunting in the Top States

Nebraska by David Draper, Field Editor for Cabela’s Outfitter Journal; North Dakota by Dan Nelson, Editor, Delta Waterfowl Magazine; South Dakota by Lee Harstad, South Dakota Department of Tourism; Kansas by Michael Pierce, Outdoor Writer and Photographer for The Wichita Eagle; Iowa by Larry Brown, Training Columnist for Pointing Dog Journal; and Minnesota by Michael Furtman, author of On the Wings of a North Wind and 2003 Ducks Unlimited Communicator of the Year.